Collaborating with WWU
When I decided that I wanted to create a blog for my culminating project, I immediately knew I wanted to work with Farrah Greene-Palmer. I had met Farrah my winter quarter of senior year when she came into my Program Planning class to watch a group present their program evaluation. Farrah is the Suicide Prevention Grant Manager at Western Washington University and was working with one of my classmates to create a support group for people who had lost loved ones to suicide. I knew Farrah would be an asset to me in creating a blog to spread the message of hope and help, so I e-mailed her as soon as I could. A few weeks later, Farrah and I met with one of her student teams to discuss my ideas. After explaining what the blog would be about and what inspired me to do it, I also explained that I would love to work with Farrah and the counseling center in using my interviews in a video that they can then use to spread awareness about depression and suicide, and to encourage people to seek support. Farrah and her team immediately loved my concept and began working on ways to include my project with theirs.
Farrah and I have discussed our ideas in depth, and have decided that this project will be a long-term, on-going project. The idea is to create a short video introducing the idea of hope and arouse interest. After that video has been released, Farrah and I will work with the counseling center to create a longer video that goes more in depth about the issues of depression, anxiety, stress, suicide, etc. While it will have an underlying message of hope, it will focus more on seeking help than the first video did. Our plan beyond that is vague, but I hope to continue working with Farrah and her team in the development of my blog.
Below is the first video that has been created to introduce the project. I'd like to give special thanks to HazaHatvan Productions who was a big help in filming and editing.
Farrah and I have discussed our ideas in depth, and have decided that this project will be a long-term, on-going project. The idea is to create a short video introducing the idea of hope and arouse interest. After that video has been released, Farrah and I will work with the counseling center to create a longer video that goes more in depth about the issues of depression, anxiety, stress, suicide, etc. While it will have an underlying message of hope, it will focus more on seeking help than the first video did. Our plan beyond that is vague, but I hope to continue working with Farrah and her team in the development of my blog.
Below is the first video that has been created to introduce the project. I'd like to give special thanks to HazaHatvan Productions who was a big help in filming and editing.