The document proposes two solutions - a Cross the Line activity and a mentoring program - to help eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health issues at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Cross the Line activity would use an anonymous survey and have students physically step forward to reveal how common various mental health issues are. The mentoring program would pair students experiencing mental health issues with mentors who have overcome similar challenges. Both solutions are intended to show students they are not alone and connect them with support resources on campus.

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Arti Pandey, Grant Nelson, Taylor Stordahl, Jeremy Smolens, Mitchell Sides
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2. Table of Contents
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Solutions
Benefits
Implementation
Cross the Line Activity
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We came up with two solutions that will help eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health. The first
solution is a Cross the Line Activity to help students realize that they are not alone and that there are
many other students dealing with the same challenges. The second solution is to implement a
mentoring program to further allow students to connect with people who understand what they are
going through and to get proper guidance for a more successful recovery.
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Pages 8-12
Our two solutions have been proven to work and in this section we provide you with the data to
support our ideas. This section also explains the benefits of both the Cross the Line Activity and the
mentoring program. These two solutions will be able to help eliminate the stigma surrounding mental
health starting at University of Colorado-Boulder and spread to other college campuses across the
nation.
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Pages 13-18
To answer any possible further questions about how these solutions can become a reality, this section
explains all of the logistics to be able to properly implement these two solutions. Also, this section
includes a timeline to show how everything comes together and how these events can be replicated
from year to year. We hope you will realize just how perfect these solutions are so they can be
implemented as soon as possible.
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3. Solutions
● Cross the Line Activity
● Mentorship Program 1

4. Recognize how
common mental
health issues are
Eliminate Stigma
Present current
resources on campus
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1. Participants fill out an anonymous survey with questions
regarding their experiences with mental health.
2. Activity coordinators distribute surveys randomly to
participants.
3. Participants stand in a line shoulder to shoulder.
4. Activity coordinators ask survey questions one by one to
participants.
5. If a participant's survey agrees with the question, they step
forward.
Activity Goals:
Through this activity our goal is to show the participants how common mental health issues really are. Furthermore,
we hope to see a drastic decrease or even elimination of the mental health stigma on campus through consistent
repetitions of this activity. We believe this activity will spread awareness of our mentorship program (page 6) and
other campus resources through our free giveaway items (page 5).
Cross the Line Activity
Cross the Line Procedure:
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awareness for these programs. It is important to remember that giveaways are not limited to the two
items above. To maximize effectiveness, it is a good idea to tailor your giveaways to each university’s
student interests.
Cross the Line Activity Giveaways
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6. Mentors play a vital role in
recovery in the short and
long term recovery of
patients.
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Our group is confident based on student surveys that after students
participate in the Cross the Line activity and receive the free giveaways from
this activity that they will not only seek treatment from on campus resources,
but feel more comfortable doing so.
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While we do believe in the power of professional help, we don’t want any
students to be deterred from joining our mentoring program. That is why we
are not requiring students to seek professional mental health treatment
before they are paired with a mentor. However, we do want students to take a
mental health screening test to get a baseline of where the student’s mental
health is at, as well as aid in the pairing process of mentor and mentee. These
baseline results will also help in the examination of the progress the student is
making.
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Finally, we want our program to pair mentors and mentees based on
conditions and interests. We intend for this program to not only start
mentorships, but friendships as well. Therefore, we want mentors and mentees
to meet on their own time in a place of their choosing. We want the mentoring
relationship to be based on comfort and flexibility in order to ensure the most
successful recovery.
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Mentoring Program
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7. Awareness
Mentoring Program
Cross the
Line
The Future
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This activity will not only address the
current stigma surrounding mental health
issues but will also promote awareness
around campus. We believe that the main
problem comes from a lack of knowledge
of how many people are affected by
various forms of mental health issues and
that this will make tremendous strides in
solving the problem.
Our goal is to make sure that people
don’t leave this event without ever
thinking of it again. We will ensure this
doesn’t happen by handing out the
giveaways previously mentioned on
page five with information about mental
health services available on campus.
Our team wants to stress that this is not
a one time solution, that every year
there are new people being introduced
to the Cross the Line activity and that
past mentees have the opportunity to
become mentors and repeat the process
again the next year.
We believe implementing the
mentoring program on campus will
assure students that they are
connected with their peers who are
going through similar situations and
that they are never alone in anything
they are going through.
The Connection
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8. Benefits
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● Benefits of each solution
● Data supporting each solution

9. Helps eliminate stigma
Proven to work
Interactive live graph
Social Value
Presents campus
resources
You are not alone
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Benefits of Cross the Line Activity
Other colleges do activities similar to this,
but they do not necessarily ask questions
about mental health. This activity helps
show similarities between students.
Unlike a standard bar graph that may fail
to grab students’ attention, showing the
data using real people has a very personal
and powerful affect.
When students see just how many of their
peers have been impacted by mental
health struggles, they feel more
comfortable talking about it and
addressing it.
At the end of the activity, a giveaway
will be provided to students showing
them all the mental health resources
they can access.
When students see their peers step
forward for some of the same struggles
that they may have, it helps to eliminate
feelings of loneliness and isolation.
Bringing students together to show
how common mental health issues are
can lead to friendships and unity on
campus.
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10. 100% 95% 90% 65%
People had
the cold
Struggle with
depression
Gets help when
they have the flu
Comfortable getting
help for depression
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Cross the Line Data
As a base question and to
show how common a cold is,
we asked participants if they
had a cold in the past year. Of
our 20 participants, 20
stepped forward.
When asked if the
respondent or someone
he or she knew struggled
with depression, 19 of
the 20 people stepped
forward.
When asked if the
respondents sought any
form of help or treatment
for the flu, 18 of the 20
stepped forward.
Only 13 of the 20
respondents felt
comfortable seeking help
for a struggle with
depression.
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11. Personal Connection
Because our mentoring program is based on friendship, rather than a formal relationship, it leaves
mentors with a lifelong connection. We want mentors and mentees to meet on their own time in a place
they both feel comfortable with rather than in a doctor’s office. We feel that this will help both parties
open up more and lead to a quicker, more successful recovery.
Lasting Recovery
Finally, research shows that mentoring programs lead to less patients having return to treatment. We
want lasting recovery, rather than a quick fix. We fully understand that with mental health not every
day is going to be a good day. We hope that because mentors and mentees have a personal connection
they will be comfortable reaching out to one another on days they feel they are struggling and can work
to get to a better place together.
Leadership Opportunities
The mentoring program we plan to implement will provide leadership opportunities for students. Sally
Forester, the director of the Peer 2 Peer mentoring program at CU, said this is the biggest incentive for
students to want to join the program as a mentor. Students want to play an important role in their
community and gain lifelong skills.. In addition, she said, it looks great on a resume.
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Benefits of Mentoring Program
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12. Found Mentoring to
be Helpful
Did NOT have to receive
follow up treatment
Want to Become
Mentors
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95% 86%47%
How Helpful is Mentoring?
Of the 6.9 million youth in
structured mentor relationships,
95% found the program to be
helpful.
Of the 79 at-risk youth placed in the
mentorship variable of an experiment
done by the National Institute of
Mental Health, 47% of the group did
not need follow-up mental health
treatment.
Of the 15 million youth in
structured or unstructured
mentoring relationships, 86%
expressed interest in becoming
mentors.
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13. Implementation
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● Considerations for each solution
● Timeline
● Costs

14. Attendance
The Cross the line activity will be held during the
freshman orientation that takes place the first
week of school. Attendance to all events that take
place that week are mandatory including our Cross
the Line activity.
Program Leaders
In the future we will have the mentors from the
mentoring program running this activity but since
we will not have any mentors for the first year we
plan on hiring staff to run it. We are anticipating
around 10 employees for every 100 students.
Time
This event will be scheduled to fit into the
freshman orientation week.
Anonymity
As explained on page four, our surveys will be filled
out anonymously. It can be difficult to share
personal information, especially with hundreds of
students and we believe that the anonymity aspect
of the activity will encourage honest participation.
Location
We plan on having this event take place on one of
the main fields on CU’s campus such as Farrand
Field. If the weather's not cooperating this can be
easily switched indoors to the Coors Event Center.
Evaluate
At the end of the activity we will have evaluations
filled out by students in order to see what needs to
be improved on for the years to follow.
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Things to Consider with Cross the Line
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15. Recruiting
Flexibility
Implementing
Advising
Assessing
Training
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Things to Consider with Mentoring Program
A successful mentorship program needs mentees as
well as mentors. Mentees will receive information
about the program online as well as at our Cross the
Line activity. Mentors will apply because of the
unique and personal leadership opportunity.
The mentee-mentor relationship should feel
natural. Because of this, the pair will meet
conveniently on their own time wherever they
would like.
Strong recruiting efforts and a sound mentorship
model are vital to this program’s success. Once
established, a large percentage of mentees should
have a desire to be mentors based on our
research.
Along with the significance of a mentor’s
personal story, we want to ensure that mentors
also receive mentoring advice through training.
This way they will be prepared for a variety of
situations.
To accurately assess the program, emailed
surveys or in-person questions should be used to
identify the program’s strengths as well as areas
that could improve.
Before being paired with mentees, the mentors
should receive training to prepare them for a
variety of mentorship challenges and guide them
to a successful mentorship.
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Summer 2017
August 2017
Fall 2017
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To implement these two solutions as soon as possible the first
thing that needs to be done is recruit program leaders who will
run the Cross the Line Activity and find mentors who will be
the first group to help start up the mentoring program.
Now is the time to start planning the details for the Cross the
Line Activity including the venue, what each program leader
will be doing, and everything else to make sure the event runs
as smoothly as possible.
During the first week that students move in, onto campus, they
have a number of activities to go to. This is the week that the
Cross the Line Activity will be taking place and it will only be
for freshmen. Every year during August, this activity will take
place for the freshmen.
Once the Cross the Line Activity has been completed, students
will begin to know about the mentoring program. During the fall
is when some students will begin to look for mentors. As these
partnerships grow Something to remember is that this will be a
slow process, but each year it will exponentially grow.
Timeline
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Spring 2018
This process will be
repeated every year
and each year it will
become a little easier
due to all of the
feedback which will
help make the
program stronger.
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After having the mentoring program for a semester, it is
important to assess how the program is going and be able to fix
any flaws to the program to make it better each year for students.
This assessment can be as simple as a small survey to make sure
that the mentor-mentee relationships are still beneficial.
After looking at the data and realizing how common it is for
mentees to want to become mentors, this is the time for that
transition to occur. Of course not every mentee would be willing to
become a mentor and not every mentee to feel as if they are ready
to become a mentor at this time, but there will be some who are
ready for the transition. This mentors would then be trained and
become prepared for the new students arriving in the fall. Also, this
is a good time to do an end of the year evaluation to receive more
information on how the program is going and to see what needs to
be changed for the next academic year.
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Grand
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Total Cost
Per
100 Participants
Give Away Items
100 individual
Fixed Cost = Cost to start production
Per Unit = Cost to produce each unit
$719
Sub
Total
Employees
10 employees per 100 participants
$30 paid incentive per employee
$300
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A great venue is essential for an efficiently
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This chart below shows the costs per 100 students for the Cross the Line Activity. Depending on the number of students, the total cost for the
activity will differ. As for the mentoring program, we do not foresee any major costs. For that reason, we do not have a cost chart for the mentoring
program.
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19. You’re Not Alone
The main goal of doing the Cross the Line Activity is to emphasize that there
are other students who understand the struggle of dealing with mental
health issues. Of course every situation is unique, but we want to show
students how common mental health issues actually are.
1Get Support
By implementing the mentoring program we believe that students will be
more comfortable getting support because they will have someone by their
side who has gone through similar challenges and by being able to see their
mentor’s success, it will motivate the mentees to do the same.
2Eliminate Stigma
By helping students realize how common mental health issues actually are
and showing them the abundance of resources that are provided on college
campuses, the stigma surrounding mental health can and will be eliminated.
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Takeaways
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20. Thank You
NBHIC
Activity Participants
Sally Forester - Peer to Peer Mentor Director
Kristin Swisher - Communication Strategy Professor
Andrea Straccia - Leeds RAP Director
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