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Mental Health Week
Mind Matters 2023
YOU
6 to 10 February 2023
Mind matters 2023
YOU
Mind Matters is a festival co-organized by Welfare Services Club Regular Service Project (Mental Health) and Graduate Students’ Association. It is an annual week-long festival, packed with a variety of targeted programmes, aimed at promoting the importance of mental well-being at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). First conducted in 2019, the week-long mental health festival is now approaching its fifth edition in February 2023. Check out the event photos for Mind Matters 2022 in the previous year, and be excited for what's to come! Mind Matters 2023 is happening from 6 to 10 February 2023.
The theme for Mind Matters 2023 is ‘YOU’. This year, our theme encapsulates incorporating identity, dealing with the past and focusing on the present. In that sense, the galaxy represents the inner core of human beings, the complexity and the beauty of what is inside of you. We are excited to be on this journey with YOU to find out more about yourself through our different programmes!
Organising committee
Welfare Services Club
Regular Service Project (Mental Health)
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Founded in 1985, the Welfare Services Club (WSC) is a non-academic constituent club in NTU which provides an umbrella of voluntary activities and social work to all students. Besides growing from strength to strength in membership, WSC has also undergone incredible expansions in its activities to reach out to more service users every year. Currently, it runs 9 Regular Service Projects (RSPs): Deaf Community, Elders, Friends of Children, Intellectually Disabled, Mental Health, Operation Hope, Physically Challenged, Vision of Hope, and Youth, which comprises volunteers serving and engaging their service users weekly at various locations.
WSC also runs 5 Special Projects and 5 Supporting Committees. The Special Projects include Camp OutReach, Challenge ur Limits, Ignite Change, Overseas Volunteering Expedition and Volunteer Movement and they provide additional support to service users both locally and overseas. The Supporting Committees include Finance, Growth & Opportunities!, Internal Relations, Admin & Liason and Publicity and Publications and they provide operational support to WSC. Volunteers engaged in Special Projects and Supporting Committees gain invaluable skills in entrepreneurship, events management, planning, coordination and many more.
As a portfolio added to WSC in 2017, RSP (Mental Health) aims to create greater awareness of our service users and help students understand them better. Through weekly interactions at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), RSP (MH) wishes to foster stronger bonds between service users and students, allowing service users to be part of a larger community.
RSP (MH) hopes that these interactions will help service users to feel closer and reconnect to society at the same time. The activities carried out, like handicraft making, games and sports sessions, are also targeted at helping to keep them mentally and physically active, as well as learning new skills and improving themselves. Apart from our weekly sessions held at IMH every Saturday, RSP (MH) also organizes events such as festive celebrations and outdoor excursions in hopes of bringing greater joy to the service users.
Graduate Students' Association
Welfare Committee
The Nanyang Technological University Graduate Students’ Association (NTUGSA) is the elected representative body of the graduate student community in NTU and is supported by the Students Affairs Office (SAO).
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Originally registered as the NTU Graduate Students’ Club on 2 September 2010 as a culmination of months of preparation and soul-searching by members of the pro-tem committee, the Club was a small volunteer group promoting and organising social, recreational, cultural and sporting activities among the graduate students. In the process, the Club has migrated to a Council and has come to serve as a critical link between graduate students, the undergraduate student community, and the university administration. The Council has taken initiatives in advancing the concerns and welfare issues of the graduate student community to the administration.
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With effect from 2nd May 2018, the new Constitution claimed formation of Graduate Students’ Association with a new structure. NTUGSA consists of EXCO headed by GSA President and Council that includes Presidents of constituent bodies, namely school-based Graduate Student Clubs. Introduction of the new structure would facilitate communication between SAO and graduate students community. Collaboration on events would allow to expand target audience and improve publicising of activities that would result in reaching out to every student.
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The Association represents the interests of graduate students and raises their issues to the university administration with the purpose of seeking ways to resolve them, organises orientation programmes for new graduate students, promotes the welfare of members within the University, tries to improve the graduate student life on campus by planning and organising activities and events, which may not be limited to just social, recreational, sporting, cultural, educational, and career related purposes and works to foster a strong and meaningful relationship between the graduate and the undergraduate student population, faculty, staff, and administrators.