Mental Health Video Series: Building Connections
Video opens on a series of clips of students from Orientation week, dressed in their themed T-shirts from Residence, one group is in all orange, another in all red then blue, as they exit from the Alumni Stadium.
On screen interview with Sam Monday, Residence Area Coordinator, Residence Life. 
ÒThere is no student wellbeing without community. The work that I do it's really important that I just build connections with students and help others to build connections. Or helping our residence life staff figure out ways to connect with them, whether that's knocking on doors, or having programs, or having events, like, just being able to learn more about them, offer them opportunities, connect, and offer them space to kind of tell me more about themselves, and their experiences.Ó
On screen: split visual screen of pickup basketball and spin class  
Sam VO: ÒCommunity and connection is what allows us to be able to ask for help when we need it.Ó
Sam on screen: ÒIt allows us to feel a sense of belonging on campus and feel that we're supposed to be here.Ó
Sam VO: Students at a table studying and talking.
On screen: Hashmit Kaur, Student-Staff Neighborhood Relations & Off-Campus Living
ÒOff-campus living kind of incorporates a lot of programming for students. We also have a student group known as OCUS. They have different kinds of events specific for off-campus students, and itÕs kind ofÉÓ
On screen: Students walking on campus, crowds of students walking in Branion plaza, students at Orientation week event in Alumni stadium standsÓ
Hashmit VO: Òlike, merges them into the student campus life as well, and tries to incorporate them.Ó
Sam on screen: ÒIn my day-to-day work supporting student mental health looks like creating space for students to feel heard.Ó
On screen: Drone shot of Johnson Hall and Johnson Green, students walking along pathway. Two students working together in common area.

On screen: Stephen Donnelly, PhD and Graduate Student Support Facilitator, Student Wellness Services
ÒWe help create a campus where people feel they belong by just offering invitations to arrive as yourself when you're a grad student, and talk from our own experience about navigating the mental health system here, or navigating substance uses as a grad student, or being a parent and a partner to someone while trying to juggle all these things.Ó
On screen: Drone shot on campus, rooftops of buildings.
On screen: Tess Medeiros, Gryphons Empowering Movement (GEM) Coordinator, Department of Athletics
ÒWe reach out to students in the community experiencing mild to moderate depression or anxiety, and I pair them up with one of my buddies.Ó
On screen: Students playing badminton, main fitness centre, weight machines, trainer working out on machine, students running on track, students sitting and talking outside.
Tess VO: Our buddies are not personal trainers. They're not nutritionists, and they're not counselors, but they're peer support. We're not just fitness and exercise. We want the whole person to be well.
Tess on screen: ÒSo they provide accountability, support, empathy, a listening ear to all of the students, and just provide support in any way that's within our scope.Ó
Sam on screen: ÒEvery single one of us carries an important weight in making sure that students feel heard and valued and belonging on this campus.Ó
Stephen on screen: ÒI think a lot of the university gives the impression that you have to turn up fully formed or fully imagined exactly what this four years is gonna look like. Very few people really have that, and not being on top of everything, and not being a hundred percent is totally okay.Ó
Video ends on U of G animated logo