News • Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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Career Expo brings work, internship openings to campus UA Enactus, which is short for Entrepreneurial Action and Us, is a group on campus that The UA Enactus club is holding dedicates itself to building a a Career Expo in the Student community of student, academic Union Memorial Center to help and business leaders who are students find jobs or internships committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to for the summer. The annual Career Expo improve the quality of life and is hosted by UA Enactus in standard of living for people in partnership with Career Services. need. Svoboda said there are about Companies participating in the fair include retail stores such as 30 members participating in the Kohl’s, Forever 21 and PetSmart, events UA Enactus is working car rental services such as on this year. The projects UA Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Enactus works on vary from GEICO and even big corporations supporting financial education, to food drives, to refugee such as Walmart and Target. “Coming to the Career Expo, it projects, to garden and nutrition, helps … because you might get all with a goal of giving back to a job or a summer internship, the community. Weigand said the group also but it also helps our club and it helps your community,” said partners with local businesses Brittany Svoboda, an economics and larger corporations that the organization senior and co-president of UA support Enactus. “It works three-fold to worldwide. “What we do not only help is try find ways you and help the Our recruiters to … solve any corporations that really love of the issues we we’re meeting to see people are seeing in with, but it also our community helps the Tucson who come in a way that is community as from diverse s u s t a i n a b l e ,” well.” backgrounds. Weigand said. “So M a r i l y n — Marilyn Weigand, we can set up a Weigand, a secretary of UA Enactus system … putting physiology junior together a project and secretary of that will, over a the UA Enactus club, said she’s hoping to see a couple of years, solve the issue large turnout of students at the in a way where we can step back event, which is open to all majors. and the community members “We’d really like to see a good can take it over.” UA Enactus will host a food representation from as many majors as possible,” Weigand drive at the Walmart at El Con said. “Our recruiters really love Center on Saturday, a project to see people who come from that members said they hope will diverse backgrounds, as far as help find a sustainable way to what they’re studying, because create lasting hunger relief in the they’re not looking for just one community. The club will host the Career kind of ‘cookie-cutter’ student.” After Jan. 15, employers could Expo in the third-floor ballroom expect to pay between $200 and of the student union today from $550 for a space, depending on 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in partnership whether they were a nonprofit with Career Services. organization, governmentrelated or a corporation. The money employers pay for a space at the Career Expo goes to — Follow Katya Mendoza support UA Enactus. @katya_nadine
BY katya mendoza The Daily Wildcat
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At his Stratford, N.J., home, Army veteran Sgt. T.J. Homan cares for “Lil B,” (left), the dog he brought back from Afghanistan, and another dog, Lucy (right), that he adopted.
Dogs help veterans adjust to life after war he said. She didn’t bark, she didn’t yelp, she didn’t need to relieve herself. When the Army 307th Military Every day, Lil B greets him with a Police Company pulled up to a wagging tail when he gets home from police station in the Shinwar district work. And when he’s feeling down, of Afghanistan in October 2011, a she throws a toy in his lap. little white-and-brown spotted dog “She really does know if there’s appeared. something wrong,” he said. The soldiers, especially Sgt. T.J. The two still sleep together every Homan, began caring for the stray. night, with Lil B on guard duty at the The soldiers named her “Lil B,” short foot of the bed. “B has to sleep with for Little Beethoven because she me,” he said, “otherwise she cries.” looked like a Saint Bernard. Lil B Lil B is doing some adjusting herself. eventually bonded with the 27-yearLoud noises and confined spaces old Homan. The pup slept in his cot, scare her, as does going snuggling with Homan down steps. and sometimes stealing A few months ago, The pup slept in his cot, snuggling with a boot during the night. Homan adopted Lucy, Homan and sometimes stealing a boot “Whatever she a black schnauzerduring the night. did, she was real poodle mix, to keep rehabilitating,” Homan Lil B company. It’s said. “She reminded us helping. that there’s other stuff James Serpell, director of the Center On Homan’s return to Fort Dix on out there other than the war.” Jan. 27, 2012, Lil B, who had arrived a for the Interactions of Animals and When the time came for the squad few months earlier, was there to meet Society at University of Pennsylvania to return to Fort Dix in New Jersey, School of Veterinary Medicine, said him. Homan told his sister he wanted “I was in my uniform still, she people’s relationships with their pets to bring Lil B with him. His sister smelled me, and she just fell right at help regulate stress levels. stumbled upon the Philadelphia“People under distress seek out my knees, pushed her whole body based nonprofit No Dog Gets Left attachments and bonds with others,” against me,” he said. Behind, which eventually brought the Adjusting to life at home has been he said. “There’s safety in numbers. pup home. difficult for the former soldier, who A dog is definitely an object of Since its founding in 2010, No Dog now lives in Stratford, N.J., and works attachment in that situation.” Gets Left Behind has raised more than In August, the Defense Department as a corrections officer in Fort Dix. He $70,000 and has brought at least 15 doesn’t like to talk about the things gave No Dog Gets Left Behind the dogs from Afghanistan and Iraq to the that trouble him. When they do, he Seven Seals award, an honor given United States. to individuals and organizations turns to Lil B. The family-run charity, led On one particularly bad night, Lil B that demonstrate support for service by Trish Gohl, 52, raises money stayed by his side for 19 hours straight, members. for transportation and makes arrangements for quarantines, medication and airfare, and for local people to drive the dog to a transit facility. It costs about $4,500 to bring over a dog from a combat zone, she said. Gohl, a consultant and project manager who lives in Philadelphia with her husband and dog, got the idea in 2009. That year, after her dog died and her nephew was deployed to Afghanistan, she watched the Military Channel documentary “No Dog Left Behind” and a mission was born.
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“I think things have gotten better with reducing the stigma around mental health and health seeking, but we still have a ways to go,” he said. “We still know that stigma exists and it prevents people who … need help from reaching out and coming to that first counseling appointment.”
Reaching out to classmates
Liz Campbell said she believes prevention efforts can help students feel more supported and more comfortable talking about suicide without fear of recrimination. She added that helping teach students how to recognize and properly address depression is vital. “I think, personally, it’s important to train kids to see the signs of distress,” Liz Campbell said. “Had some of her friends been able to see the symptoms, I think they might have had more impact than professionals. They might have been able to provide a better support, or alert someone … to step in and help.” Liz Campbell said students should ensure that their friends know they’re there to support them and that they have time for them. She said while at the UA, her daughter missed her group of friends from high school. Although she recognizes suicide is a difficult topic, Liz Campbell said, it is necessary to discuss it. “People don’t like to acknowledge it because it’s so awful. The thought of somebody actually being at the point that they would take their own life is horrible,”
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she said. “It’s a really fearful topic.” son Jed Satow, a UA student, committed Salafsky said there is a widely spread myth suicide. that discussing suicide will plant the idea Salafsky said the seal is a good indication of committing the act in someone’s head. of what Campus Health Service is trying to However, he said, the opposite has proven to move toward and that staff is committed to be true. addressing these issues. This is the last year “It’s the silence that really can be the most of a three-year suicide prevention grant devastating,” Salafsky said. received from the Substance Pushing students to Abuse and Mental Health ask the difficult question Services Administration Signs to look out for: of whether a friend is and totaling $306,000, — Change in outlook, considering suicide is but Salafsky said staff has different behavior — Thinking/ talking about the main purpose of QPR partnered with the UA death/ hopelessness/ that training, Salafsky said. and Tucson community there’s no way out Because suicide is the to explore how to sustain — Drastic changes in second leading cause of programs created through situations/ major changes in death on college campuses, the grant. life can spark these feelings he said, it’s important Campus Health Service for more people to get will seek another federal involved in combatting the grant down the road, but problem. for now, Salafsky said, staff “I think it comes down to the fact that this will work with the community to promote is a really big issue and there’s no way to have services provided for those struggling with enough counseling staff here to identify all mental health issues. the students who need help,” Salafsky said, Liz Campbell said outreach and suicide “and really we know that the most likely prevention efforts could mean the difference people to notice when somebody needs between life and death. help would be a friend or a coworker or a “To have that in your arsenal, where classmate.” you can talk to someone and recognize it, you could in fact help save their life,” Liz Campbell said. “I know their family would be grateful.” Last month, the UA was recognized with a JedCampus seal of distinction, — Katya Mendoza contributed from the nonprofit organization Jed reporting to this article. Foundation, which is given to colleges with comprehensive programming on the topic of mental health. The Jed Foundation, founded in 2000, was — Follow Brittny Mejia created by Donna and Phil Satow after their @BrittnyAriel
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Caitlin Campbell committed suicide in January 2013, while a UA student. In that year, there were two suicides total, a decrease from four in 2012.
QPR Suicide Prevention Trainings:
Looking ahead
I’m not sure that you ever really heal from it. ... It will never go away.
— Liz Campbell, mother of former UA student Caitlin Campbell
Feb. 26 from 1-3 p.m. at Campus Health Service March 27 from 2-4 p.m. at Campus Health Service Training gives participants the skills to recognize warning signs, learn how to ask someone if they are thinking about suicide and offer resources. Space is limited. RSVP to Melanie Fleck, outreach specialist, at mfleck@email.arizona.edu
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