Project Description

Driving Question: How do we, as community members with a background in neurochemistry, help folks struggling with mental health challenges?

Project Health Domains: Clients

Project Problem + Purpose: In this project, students learned about how brain chemistry can impact a person's mental health. The students took this knowledge as a foundation to create products to spread awareness to the HLHS community.

Teacher Highlights

"The students in this project were very passionate about the "Mental Health is Health" campaign! I was so excited to see their incredible empathy when thinking about how to support folks struggling with mental health challenges! They were able to take their learning in chemistry and have it drive an effort to improve community wellness." - Mrs. Bridget

Student Highlights

"I am proud because I feel that mental health is something very important and we must inform other people so that they do not believe that it is a bad disease."

"I liked making the posters about mental health. I learned a lot investigating about it."

"What I’m proud of for this project was that I got to learn a lot of what mental health really is. I enjoyed the work. It was fun and also challenging, but i got it done and I’m proud of that."