Katrina McKinnon Capstone

For my Capstone, I chose to focus on the topic of Mental Health and made “Mental Health Awareness Check In”. Mental Health Awareness is very important especially within a high school. Especially with the transition period from pandemic back to a “normal life”, it is hard because we were so used to the lack of social interaction. With us, high school students, trying to navigate high school after such a mentally draining time took a toll on us. So I thought of the idea to post Mental Health Check In posters around school so that it gives the students and/or teachers a space to check in with themselves. After doing research on each of the mental illnesses, I learned how much each illness can affect people and the age group that they fall in. After finding out this information, I thought it was important to do some sort of check in to where students or teachers didn’t have to necessarily speak out about how they felt to make them feel uncomfortable but to be able to show it without anyone knowing it was them. My goal overall was to help the SLA community understand that our mental state is very important and that it’s okay to not be okay at times. Also to let them know that there are people here that they can talk to about anything that’s going on with them.