Thrive
Promoting mental health literacy, reducing stigma, creating a supportive campus culture, and ensuring that faculty, staff and students have the resources to help them understand mental health issues, and improve coping skills, are key to building mental health and to living, learning, and working well—this is what Thrive is all about!
Thriving During COVID-19
As our global community navigates a challenging and unprecedented situation, it is particularly important to foster and maintain mental health. Be gentle with yourself and with others as we all adapt to these uncertain times—it is normal to feel anxious, overwhelmed, and stressed. There are resources available for students, faculty, and staff in need of additional mental health and wellbeing supports.
As we protect our health, and the health of those around us by observing physical distancing, consider the Thrive 5 to help maintain your mental health.
UBC has created COVID-19 response pages for both the Vancouver and Okanagan campus with FAQ's, links to resources, and updated information.
Let's Thrive UBC!
This November, we celebrated 10 years of Thrive at UBC, with a month of events and initiatives focused on building mental health through the Thrive 5. You can Thrive 365 by considering how the Thrive 5 can be implemented in your day-to-day life.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Supports
As our community navigates these unprecedented times, it is important to consider ways to support mental health and resilience. If you are experiencing fear, stress, worry and isolation, please know that these feelings are natural when facing threats that are beyond our control.
If you need help in coping with these feelings, there are resources available.
Resources for Students
Resources for Faculty and Staff
Mental Health Literacy
Thrive also supports UBC's broader goals around mental health literacy, outlined in the Wellbeing Strategic Framework.
Thrive is a joint initiative and collaboration between UBC Human Resources, Health Promotion & Education (Vancouver), Health and Wellness (Okanagan), and UBC Wellbeing.
Thrive events are planned by a number of partners, and are intended to represent a diverse range of experiences and perspectives, beyond the Thrive 5. The Thrive committee recognizes that mental health is very individual and invites our campus community to explore their path to mental health—whatever that may look like.