More than 40 Lake Havasu City community members and MCC students filled out self-assessments and spoke with licensed mental health professionals last night during MCC's first National Depression Screening Day event.
That may not sound like a lot of people, but given the misunderstanding of mental illness still prevalent in our society and the resultant stigma associated with it, the turnout felt like a great success. At one point there were eight or 10 people, both young and old, intently filling out assessment forms, elbow to elbow around the large table in our main lobby.
My primary job was to keep the coffee pot full and the cookie tray neat, but it felt good being associated with an event that clearly made people feel comfortable enough to come forward for help - and it felt good that the place they could do that was MCC.
Now it's on to Pumpkin Fest, sort of from the sublime to the ridiculous.
About the blogger
- Diana Parker
- I'm in my second year as the College Recruitment Officer, and it's gratifying to see so many of the people I helped get started here in classes and moving toward brighter futures. I'm a true education advocate, having earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. I've also worked in public relations and as a newspaper reporter and a librarian.
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