Season 1
Diving Into All Things Youth Mental Health With the YMHA’s Director of Operations Anna-Lisa Nguyen
Talking Male Suicide and the Stigma Around Male Mental Health With UBC’s “HeadsUpGuys” Project Manager Joshua Beharry
In this episode, Nicole Salom, May Kyla Medalla, and Mat Dion Somblingo chat with Anna-Lisa Nguyen, the Director of Operations for the Youth Mental Health Association (YMHA), a non-profit that works to raise awareness and reduce the stigma around mental health, and help empower youth to become leaders in the mental health sector.
In this episode, Samantha Stolberg and Hilda Zhang talk with Joshua Beharry, the project manager of HeadsUpGuys, a UBC program and anonymous online resource that works to improve mental health literacy among men, reduce the stigma, and help prevent male suicide. Joshua enlightens us on why the stigma persists, how men often struggle with toxic masculinity, how discussing male suicide helps, not hurts, and so much more.
In this episode, Justin Ho and Kelvin Nguyen sit down with Mykhailo Ozorovych, the pastor of Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster. Father Ozorovych has family and friends living in Ukraine, and was a part of roundtable discussions with Premier Horgan on the provincial government's plans to support Ukrainian refugees. His church have been instrumental in raising money for Ukrainian aide and welcoming Ukrainian refugees to B.C.