The Office of the Dean of Students will be closed Friday, July 11, 18, and 25.
On Friday, August 1, 8, 15, and 22, a case manager will be available online for booked appointments.
The Office of the Dean of Students will be closed Friday, July 11, 18, and 25.
On Friday, August 1, 8, 15, and 22, a case manager will be available online for booked appointments.
"To teach positive mental hygiene, we have to emphasize the principles of healthy living, with a foundation of rules of health to have a sound physical health, and then all the psychological ones for developing an outgoing personality to get along in society."
- Mary H. Brown
Mary H. Brown’s bequest to McGill University primarily supported the creation of facilities for health and mental health care in the Brown Student Services Building. The balance of the fund was set aside as the Mary H. Brown Fund to provide ongoing special project support.
The Fund, approximately $20,000 per year in total, supports initiatives consistent with Ms. Brown's wishes. Applications may be received from any unit or organization within the McGill community, be it from students, staff or faculty. Selected projects typically have a projected budget between $500-$3,000.
For more information, please consult the following: Mary H Brown Information Package
Applications:
There is no application form. Please apply in a letter (maximum 5 double-spaced pages) that includes:
*ONE person should be the Primary Contact Person, and we will only be communicating with this person to avoid communication errors. If a project does not indicate a Primary Contact Person, we will assume that the Participant who was listed first on the applicant is the Primary Contact Person and we will be communicating solely with them. Please ensure that the Principal Contact Person is the one who submits the proposal to our office via email.
** If your project has non-McGill community members as organizers, please simply list their name and their educational institute, if applicable. Please note that to be considered for the fund, the majority of Organizers must be members of the McGill community.
Please submit your application in .pdf format to deanofstudents [at] mcgill.ca
Applications should be received by Friday October 22nd, 2021. Subject to the availability of funds, Winter applications involving clearly time sensitive or fleeting opportunities that could not have been anticipated in time for the regular deadline might also be considered. The Dean of Students may also invite applications for targeted projects. The same review process will apply to all proposals.
Successful past projects have included most or all of the following elements:
Projects less likely to receive support through this fund include those:
Examples of recent projects that received funding include:
The McGill Death Café is a program that seeks to “increase awareness of death with a view to help people make the most of their (finite) lives”, and consists of group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. While not a grief support or counselling session, Death Cafés provide a space where the often scary and taboo- yet universally relevant- theme of death can be discussed in a respectful and confidential manner without fear of judgment, a spiritual or philosophical agenda. This project received $500 to be used towards promotion, materials and food.
The McGill Walking Birds initiative is aimed at encouraging physical activity and healthy lifestyle choices at McGill University by promoting the use of stairs instead of elevators, with strategic placement of evidence-based signs and educational pamphlets. These educational pamphlets will include information about McGill’s health and Mental Health services, as well as healthy lifestyle tips to help foster positive mental hygiene. In such a way, the Walking Birds initiative echoes the spirit of McGill’s mythical Martlet birds: always in flight, sociable, healthy, and filled with promise for a better future - the only difference is that these birds prefer to take the stairs. This project received $1080 for materials
Art/iculation is a bilingual student-run digital and print magazine that aims to challenge mainstream notions of 'culture,' by spotlighting un(der)represented topics of cultural significance. Each issue brims with artful, critical content around a timely theme selected by the editorial team. In response to the tragic spate of celebrity suicides in Spring 2018 and ensuing media storm that revealed the pervasive stigma surrounding mental health, the magazine proposes a special issue focused on “The Art of Healing”. The issue would feature written and artistic content on mental, emotional, and physical wellness. Print copies of the issue would be distributed on-campus during back-to-school, with all content fully accessible online. This project received $1500 for supplies.
The Dean of Students will notify recipients and, with the approval of the Director of Planned Giving, will issue the disbursement.
McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous Peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. McGill honours, recognizes and respects these nations as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters on which we are located. For information about some of the Indigenous initiatives at McGill please visit the website for the Office of Indigenous Initiatives.