Rehabilitation Services / en #UofTGrad16: Celebrate our grads, including the founder of Minds Matter Magazine /news/uoftgrad16-celebrate-our-grads-including-founder-minds-matter-magazine <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">#UofTGrad16: Celebrate our grads, including the founder of Minds Matter Magazine </span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2016-11-10-fall-convo.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=VXdxIRNd 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2016-11-10-fall-convo.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=HO_xjVDu 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2016-11-10-fall-convo.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=mbhlNfGl 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2016-11-10-fall-convo.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=VXdxIRNd" alt="Photo of Karen Young"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-11-10T14:00:25-05:00" title="Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 14:00" class="datetime">Thu, 11/10/2016 - 14:00</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">³Ō¹Ļ±¬ĮĻ Scarborough student Karen Young who started the Minds Matter Magazine gets a hug during fall convocation (photo by Ken Jones) </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/don-campbell" hreflang="en">Don Campbell</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/dan-haves" hreflang="en">Dan Haves</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/dan-haves" hreflang="en">Dan Haves</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Don Campbell and Dan Haves</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/convocation" hreflang="en">Convocation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/uoftgrad16" hreflang="en">#UofTGrad16</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/graduate-students" hreflang="en">Graduate Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/mental-health" hreflang="en">Mental Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/rehabilitation-services" hreflang="en">Rehabilitation Services</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Rehabilitation science students also graduated this week during Fall Convocation</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>From the founder of <em>Minds Matter Magazine</em> to&nbsp;the current editor of the Toronto-based website <em>AccessTO</em> and a masterā€™s student in physical therapy, <em>³Ō¹Ļ±¬ĮĻ </em>hears from some of our graduates this week. The students talked about their programs, successes and lessons learned.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Karen Young</strong>&nbsp;founded&nbsp;<em><a href="http://mindsmattermagazine.com/">Minds Matter Magazine</a> </em>after a series of powerful personal experiences, observations&nbsp;and conversations with fellow students. It is ³Ō¹Ļ±¬ĮĻā€™s first student-run mental health magazine and the first interdisciplinary one in Canada.</p> <p>ā€œA lot of people get caught up by what is visible, but mental health can be invisible,ā€ says Young, who majored in psychology and health studies.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span>ā€œā€˜Minds matterā€™ is a mantra ā€“ everyone should be helping," Young said. "Students often get caught between the cracks and <em>Minds Matter</em> is an extension of that in that itā€™s a way to broaden the honest conversation around mental health.ā€</p> <p>The magazine remains a community platform focusing on student perspectives relating to mental health. And while the magazine addresses campus well-being, it also emphasizes student research on mental health.</p> <p>During her time at&nbsp;U&nbsp;of T, Young&nbsp;co-chaired the first-ever TEDx conference at ³Ō¹Ļ±¬ĮĻ Scarborough. She also helped bring the C3 Inspire Conference to Toronto and also served on the board of directors for <em>The Varsity</em>.&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="/news/3m-national-student-fellowships-founder-mental-health-magazine-and-philanthropic-rapper">Read more about Karen Young</a></h3> <p>Young received several accolades for her work including the prestigious 3M National Student Fellowship Award and McGraw-Hill Ryerson Student Scholarship Award. But it was the mentorship opportunities that came along that she relishes the most.&nbsp;</p> <p>ā€œI had mentors from all walks of life, both personally and academically, and I think the most valuable gift anyone can give to you is to help you figure out who you are,ā€ she says.&nbsp;</p> <p>After meeting with documentary filmmaker and ³Ō¹Ļ±¬ĮĻ alumnus <strong>Paul Saltzman</strong>, she was inspired to invite more alumni to be involved in various projects. The guidance she received from Saltzman was such an inspirational experience, she wrote an article in a peer-reviewed journal about maximizing the effectiveness of mentorship in guided-experiential learning.</p> <p>Young also conducted a thesis project on cognitive biases that underlie strategic decision-making, working with Psychology Professor <strong>Gerry Cupchik</strong>.</p> <p>Her advice to fellow students is to try out a long-term project, use time commuting to and from school to brainstorm ideas, and to keep those ideas in a journal. She also emphasizes keeping an open mind and to pay forward opportunities to others.</p> <p>ā€œI think the unique value of a higher education is that youā€™re exposed to so many different ways of thinking, and that promotes life-long learning,ā€ she says.</p> <hr> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__2479 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="500" src="/sites/default/files/2016-11-10-Christian%20Blake.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"></p> <p><strong>Christian Blake</strong>&nbsp;graduated this week with a masterā€™s degree from the Faculty of Medicineā€™s department of occupational therapy. An accessibility and inclusion advocate, he is the current editor of the Toronto-based website<em> </em><em>AccessTO</em>, which highlights accessible bars, restaurants, cafes and venues around the GTA.</p> <p>He says that&nbsp;the combination of classroom and fieldwork in the program gave students like him a strong foundation in becoming an occupational therapist. It provided him&nbsp;with the opportunity to connect with a variety of clinicians, groups, and organizations that aligned with his&nbsp;interests.</p> <p>His advice for incoming students?</p> <p>Follow what youā€™re passionate about, he says.</p> <p>"I worked at the ROM for years, teaching the&nbsp;childrenā€™s programs and have always loved museums, but with a bachelorā€™s degree in kinesiology I figured that work in culture would probably not be in my future. But the occupationaly therapy [program]&nbsp;surprised me. I figured museums are organizations with groups and populations who they probably want to enable, so maybe thereā€™s still a chance for me to make something happen."</p> <hr> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__2480 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="600" src="/sites/default/files/2016-10-fall-convo.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"><br> <strong>Mujeeb Duranai </strong>graduated with a master's degree from the&nbsp;Faculty of Medicine's department of physical therapy. He won the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award and was the valedictorian for the Class of 2016.</p> <p>He says the various teaching methods incorporated into the program at the University of Toronto was well suited to his&nbsp;learning style.</p> <p>"The program uses several teaching approaches to cater to different learning styles, which I believe to be a huge benefit of the program," he said. "In addition to lectures, the program incorporates regular hands-on labs, small group case discussions, clinical days and placements, seminars&nbsp;and tutorials. From a student perspective, it can be challenging to translate a case on paper to a real-life scenario. As I progressed through the program, this gap was bridged via the structure and organization of the curriculum ā€“ we would learn about certain conditions, practise assessment and treatment on classmates the next day&nbsp;and then have the opportunity to put it all together in a clinical setting."</p> <p>He says the program also had&nbsp;community come in and assist in clinical skills labs.</p> <p>ā€œThis ensured the mentor-to-student ratio was favourable, which went a long way for me with respect to receiving feedback on my skills and being able to ask questions in the moment,ā€ he said. ā€œThis helped me feel as comfortable and confident as possible with the new skills I learned.ā€</p> <p>After graduation, he hopes to&nbsp;pursue additional courses in manual and manipulative physiotherapy to help complement an&nbsp;"emphasis on exercise and active interventions as treatment strategies."</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:00:25 +0000 ullahnor 102394 at