SERVICE PROJECT
for a Purpose GLOBAL SERVICE PROJECT
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his academic year, Psi Chi’s Board of Directors asks all chapters and individuals to join us for the Pie for a Purpose Global Service Project. The project’s objective is to increase support for mental health advocates through gifts to the Christian Ladd Hall Scholarship for Mental Health Advocacy. Most of us know at least one person who has struggled with mental illness. Please take this meaningful and easy-to-complete opportunity to celebrate giving, community, and psychology by seeing faculty and others get a pie in the face! View full guidelines and sign up today for instructions, a free poster template, and personalized support.
The Scholarship
Once fully endowed, the Christian Ladd Hall Scholarship will award a $3,000 scholarship each year to a Psi Chi member who is an advanced undergraduate student or graduate student training for a professional career that includes mental health advocacy. In addition to the scholarship, recipients may also request up to $1,000 to create and offer a mental health advocacy event in their community. All applicants for this scholarship submit an essay on mental health advocacy. A selection of these essays will be published each year in the Eye on Psi Chi.
About the Christian Ladd Hall Scholarship for Mental Health Advocacy The three main objectives for this scholarship are:
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1. To increase mental health advocacy through the support of one Psi Chi member enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate training program with an emphasis on mental health advocacy. 2. To increase the awareness of and support for mental health advocacy through scholarship recipients’ future work, application essays, and community advocacy events. 3. To honor the memory of Christian Ladd Hall, a young man whose life story was impacted by Bipolar Disorder II.
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Remembering Christian Ladd Hall Christian Ladd Hall passed away from accidental fentanyl poisoning on July 9, 2022, at the age of 27. Diagnosed with Bipolar II, all aspects of Christian’s life story were impacted by these mental health challenges. Christian’s story of defeats and victories is similar to so many others who will benefit from increased mental health advocacy and action.
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