Media Cover Suicide Awareness Event on Campus
The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on Send Silence Packing, a national traveling public education exhibit of 1,100 backpacks that represent the 1,100 college students who annually die by suicide. Members of the UMaine and local community experienced the exhibit in the Memorial Union. Send Silence Packing is a program of Active Minds Inc., a national nonprofit with a mission to engage students in discussions about mental health. “There are a lot of people that struggle, and the more we talk about it the more people will realize it’s not an individual issue; it’s something that a lot of people struggle with,” said Lindsay Stack, co-president of the UMaine chapter of Active Minds. “You never know what someone’s dealing with. If you could be the person that they need to interact with to prevent something like this then all it takes is a little bit of effort on your part,” graduate student Mike Jakubowski told WABI after viewing the display.