Make life's challenging moments more manageable
"Life can be difficult and challenging. We’re constantly switching gout our hat[s] of responsibility, whether it’s through work, family, school. Programs such as STAND offer support to make the challenging moments much more manageable for you."
— Deezire
You'll be grateful to have taken the first step
“I worked with a lot of students who, you know, for whatever reason — if it's because of messages they got from their family or the environments that they're in — are really hesitant to join a program like STAND that tackles mental health. But that when they did take that first step, they were really grateful that they had, and that there was a lot of benefits that they got from STAND and that it can really make a difference.”
— Juliette
Mental health is just as important as physical health
“You would go to the doctor for a yearly checkup [or] when you have a broken bone — it’s a physical concern that you want to take care of; you would go. So just in the same way, if there is a mental health concern that might not be that visible to the eye, such as having anxiety right before you fall asleep or a panic symptom [that] comes out of nowhere, you would also want to take care of that, too.”
— Carolina
Protocol ID: IRB#22-000635; UCLA IRB Approved; Approval date: 04/14/25; Committee: Medical IRB 3
