September 24, 2025 • 30 mins
On today’s episode, the Boss is joined by Ashland University Wellness Team Members Sarah Watson and Sammy Young to discuss this year’s suicide prevention & awareness walk on Sept. 28, 2025. Sarah & Sammy also talk about efforts on campus to encourage young people to participate and be more aware of the issues of wellness and suicide prevention. Sarah and David break down Sarah’s time at AU as she prepares to graduate and hand off her wellness coordinator responsibilities to Sammy. For more information about the Wellness Team check them out on Facebook at wellness@ashland.edu or their website at www.ashland.edu/recreation-wellness To register for the walk on September 28th or to learn more, contact the Board at www.ashlandmhrb.org/ or call 419.281.3139.
(Record Date: September 18, 2025)
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us and welcome to
the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast. In the studio, super excited.
Two folks that one you know, the other one you
may not know, Sarah Watson and Sammy Young, both from
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Ashton University. Welcome to the studio here at the Mental
Health and Recovery Board.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thank you for happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, this is exciting because both Sammy and Sarah we're
going to talk about the suicide Prevention and Awareness Walk
that's coming up on the twenty eighth. That's something we've
been doing for multiple years. Sarah's been helping us multiple
years since she's been in her position on the wellness team,
and Sammy is coming along beside her. And this happens
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all the time, Sarah, students graduate, I lose them, they
go away and they hardly ever stay. You're probably leaving
for far flung. I don't know Cincinnati or something. I
don't know where you're going.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, this is short, little three hours away.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So this is why it's so important that we bring
up the next generation on campus and quite frankly, we
do the same thing here in the community. When we
have counselors and social workers. We always have to have
a bench, as they say in sports. And guess who's
on the bench. Sammy Young's on the bench. So we're
going to talk about sam We got interested in taking
on the wellness team, but I don't want to assume
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the audience knows what one that Ashton University has a
wellness team and kind of what you do there, Sarah,
And maybe we can talk a little bit about what
Sammy does as well, but I think the audience would
be interested in knowing more about why does Ashley even care,
why do they think they need a wellness team, and
then what happens. So if you can talk a little
bit about that and yourself too, Sarah, whatever you want
(01:50):
to do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well. If you don't know me, my name is Sarah
Watson and I am a senior here at Ashland University.
I have one more semester left, so I'm graduate reading
sadly in the fall, but happy to go on some
new adventures in life, be in the workforce. But yeah, yes,
make some money, but I don't know, it depends on
who I work for We'll see, we'll see, but definitely
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in the mental health world.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Still all right, well, you definitely won't make any money
if you're working in mental health.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But that's okay. It's all about the passion and the
commitment and the love for it. But yeah, So I
came in as a freshman to Ashland and I just
didn't really see much awareness around suicide prevention or just
the talk about mental health. And so I reached out
to a bunch of people and just kind of made
it my mission to be the mental health girl on campus.
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And then I found out that we had a wellness program,
but I just didn't feel like it was being used
to the capacity that it could be being used to.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
A lot of folks maybe didn't even know about it
on campus.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, okay, So I the second semester of my freshman year,
the wellness intern position was opening up. Oh I it
was a little bit scared because I'm a student athlete
and just it's a lot on campus and just being
a new environment. But I took the leap and I
interviewed for the position and then got the position. Yeah,
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they actually did. Isn't that insane?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Wow, it's not like the now, okay, all right, yeah
they take it seriously.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, they took a leap of faith on little Sarah Watson.
But so I took the position and the summer was
just like thinking about, oh what do I want to do.
Came in and me and my boss shout out to
Janelle Monar. I absolutely love her, a great, amazing boss.
She was also Staff Member of the Year last year,
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so go chel awesome. But so we thought that we
agreed that there was still on more of a need
on campus. So we started the Wellness Team at the
end of the fall semester in my second year here,
So that was in twenty twenty three, okay, going into
twenty twenty four. So we really full launched what the
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Wellness Team was in late twenty twenty three and early
into twenty twenty four. And basically it's a student organization
here on campus at Ashland University that is just spreading
awareness about our seven dimensions of wellness and just helping
students know that they have a voice and we want
them to be well regarding if that's their environmental wellness,
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their mental wellness, their social, physical, X, Y and Z.
So yeah, we really dived in with it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's a trouble when you have seven of them, right,
you have to remember.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Also, yeah, I can, I mean I can listen them.
I got it. Intellectual wellness, we've got a lot more occupational.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I love that because it's comprehensive. I love that you
guys looked at all the different dimensions the way you do.
That's really good. So, like you said, I think maybe
off Mike, you're you're very passionate about what you do,
so you know it's really not work. I mean, I
know it takes your time, but very passionate. I've known
you for a few years now and I kind attest
to your passion for what you're doing and the difference
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you're making on campus. So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Thanks DVID. Yeah, appreciated. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Sammy, tell us a little bit about you, because at
some point you came onto the campus. You must have
heard about this wellness team and this this Sarah person,
and you know, what were your impressions? What'd you think?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, it was very quick everything that happened. I joined
the wellness team in the spring semester of my freshman year,
so just last semester. I wasn't in it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
In the fall.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Okay, I didn't really know what to do without volleyball
in my life. So it's like, I want to join clubs.
I want to get into this campus, get to know everybody.
So one of my teammates was on the wellness team
and she was like, Sarah lives right next to me.
I can ask her if she is open to like
interviewing you.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I was like, yeah, sure, like let's do it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Like I know a lot about wellness, like I'm very
passionate about That wasn't until I was actually on the
team and getting to know Sarah that I found such
a passion for it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And when Sarah asked me to take over for her.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I was so shocked because I was just this little
fresh and I'm like, wait me, I've only been on
this team for like months months. I'm like, are you
joking with me right now? Like there's seriously no one
else you want to ask? And so she just like
filled my tank up so much. And then just as
I got to know Sarah throughout that semester, I could
just like she's the best mentor like the best leader
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that I could ever ask for, and just like honestly
like a really great person a really great friend.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it's been.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Very exciting to get to know her and get to
know about this program.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And so, yeah, she's the pro.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
She's gonna be doing most of the talking because I'm
still learning. But yeah, I'm so excited to take over.
Obviously it's a little scary. I think if I didn't
have her this semester then I would have had to
think about it a lot more. But since that I
get to learn off of her, since she created this, like,
it's just amazing and I feel a lot more comfortable
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doing so.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, Sammy, it is nice to have you on board.
And I can tell you it was intentional that there
be some time together. I mean, I know Sarah really
thought through. She didn't just want somebody to kind of
take over that didn't have a chance to walk beside
her and learn from her. And so that's another thing.
You are wise beyond your years, Sarah Watson, just that
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you didn't want this program excuse me, to not have
this kind of smooth transition. You knew it was going
to take some planning and some thought on how do
we go about doing this, not only picking the right person,
but then how do we onboard them as we say
in the work community, how do we onboard them, get
them oriented doing this so that when I hand this off,
you know it's smooth as it can be. And I'm
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excited Sammy that you're coming on. Hopefully, hopefully you don't
enter some transfer portal or something crazy, but hopefully you're
going to be at AU for a few years so
we can get some continuity, just like we've had with Sarah.
And but we've got Sarah for a few more events
before she graduates and makes zero money and constantly on
social work. So and I only say that. I only
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say that because you know, I am a counselor by profession,
and most of the people say that they do enter
it because it's it's personal and we're passionate. Now, do
I wish the field would up their pay scills? You
bet I do, and I advocate for you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Mental health is getting more talked about every every single day,
so I think maybe it'll grow a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And I agree with you, Sammy, I'm hoping we've been advocating.
COVID was a huge, like eye openly people said, oh
my gosh, people that maybe never even thought about talking
to a counselor before after the pandemic or during they
were like, wow, you know I need help. Yeah. I
thought I had enough coping skills or I had enough
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whatever to get through something like this, and I found
out I didn't. So it really did raise good awareness.
I hope you're right. I mean, we're so c hoping
that people value it and we can't attract young people
into the field unless it pays decently. And I think
most young people that graduate with loans, I mean, I
mean that's a real thing right there, Like I want
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to pay that off, right, I don't want to walk
around for the next ten or fifteen years with this
huge debt hanging over my head. And I'd like to
start family, I'd like to get a house, whatever, and yeah,
so it's got to be reasonable pay So I hope
you're right seeing it. I hope it starts to get better.
So this one of the events that you're helping us promote,
and you're going to be at you have been for
the last couple of years, is our Prevention Suicide Prevention
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Awareness Walk, which is on September twenty eighth, audience two
to four over at Ashton University the Convocation Center, Upper Convo.
We start there and we end there with a meal,
and we've got a lot of things that go on
in between. It's kind of a rain or shine thing.
If we really really need to use a rain location,
we have one over at the this Center, but we try.
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We've been very fortunate doing this nine ten years. We've
always been able to walk, even in a few times
where it was a light rain. But the whole idea
of this walk is, you know, the whole month of
as you know, the whole month of September is SUSIDE
Prevention Awareness Month in Ashton County. I went to the
commissioners back in August for the I don't know fifth
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or sixth time they declared the whole month as SUITSID
prevention and awareness. But we cap it all off with
this walk and Sarah, you know, you get some of
the student athletes to participate, but everybody that shows up
for this, they are walking. It's personal. Last year, I
don't know if you call it, it was like a
light drizzle and I was asking people. I was like,
what are you doing here on a Sunday afternoon in
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the rain? Walking? Why did you not just stay at home?
Because our turnout was great and I just love the answers.
People are just like, because I lost my brother, I
lost my sister, I lost my son, and this is
really matter, This is important for me. So I always
tell my board and the community this is by far
our most personal, passionate event that we do. And you've
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been a big part of that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Thanks. So.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, And Sarah keynoted a couple of years back and
she helped us with this year's keynote, which is going
to be Nick Barber. Can you maybe tell the audience
a little bit about Nick, because I don'tant to assume people
know who Nick is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So Nick Barber, he's often called Barber or Barber at AU.
He is a medically retired wrestler. He's now in his
senior year, just like me. But Nick came to Ashland
University and he just completely lost himself mentally, didn't really
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have an outlet. He was playing a sport. It was
a lot with school, everything going on with the transition,
and he I don't want to tell his story because
this is his story, sure, but he eventually led to
a point in his life where he felt like he
couldn't continue to go on anymore. And so after that
he he got some help and completely has changed his
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life and everything in a positive and happy manner, and
I'm so proud of him. I consider Nick one of
my close friends and everything, but just the way that
he's handled such adversity and hardship in his life has
just been beautiful to watch and be alongside him for that,
and just his faith in it all. So yeah, but
I'm extremely excited for Barb or Nick however you want
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to call him this year. I know he's super excited
and he's one of the most caring and humbled people
that I know, So.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, that's awesome. So you know, for the audience, Nick
will be our keynote before we walk. So maybe I'll
just go through the program real quick. Folks can register
register now, I mean through really September twenty eighth. If
you come in even walk in, we might have you
sign a release form, but other than that, it's obviously
no cost to walk. If you go to Ashland MHRB
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dot org Ashlyn mhr dot org you can register or
just call us four one nine two eight one three
one three nine. I'll put all this in the episode description.
Try not to write this down when you're driving. I
do stuff like that. It's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Very had some casualties on the way here. Yes, yeah,
Samy really was keeping us alive in the car with
me driving today.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Very good. So we will folks can come. We've got
some nice giveaways when they show up at two. There's
multiple vendors that are going to be set up, some
of our partners, and there'll be information that I think
makes sense for the event. We'll kick things off with
mister Barber given the keynote will walk. The walk isn't
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really that long. It's really not about the distance. It's
really about reflection and conversations that people have along the way.
About halfway through the walk, we we stop right down
on Claremont in Maine, where the County building's at. There's
a veterans memorial there, and we partner. We've been doing
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this for several years with what's called Silent Watch. So
Silent Watch is an organization and an effort, a movement,
if you will, headed up by Tim Chandler here locally
to bring attention to suicides in our military and our
law enforcement. So they're going to be doing an event
down there all day on the twenty eighth, but they're
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going to allow us to go down everybody that's walking
and our group will go down and we'll stand a
watch with them for ten minutes and then we'll complete
the rest of our walk. But I thought that was
really kind of tim to allow us to be part
of their event, because they have a bunch of folks
that agree to stand a watch for thirty minutes again
throughout the whole day, just to draw attention to those
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vets and first responders, because unfortunately, Sam and Sarah you
probably know this, the rates of suicide amongst our first
responders in our military are much higher than general population.
So that's a focus area. We're trying to do better
with those population groups. So folks will join that for
ten minutes, we'll finish the walk, we'll come back, and
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then we've got a little bit of programming going on.
But at the same time we're doing the programming, there's
a light meal, so again that's also included. Folks can
sit at a table, eat a light meal, and then
we're going to have you come up, Sarah, And you
know you might have forgot that, but no, no, you're
coming up. You're going to talk a little bit about
what you've been doing because we realized when we were
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planning for this, and planning for these things takes months.
So we've been doing this for a few months, but
we it just hit me when we were planning, I
was like, uh, oh, this is the last time Sarah
is going to be part of the planning committee and
part of the walk because of your graduation. I just
assume it took six seven years to get a four
of you to degree, but apparently not. Apparently some people
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still graduate on time. So Sarah decided yes to graduate early.
So this was our last walk. So I was like, oh,
So I was trying to work you in because I
had so many you know this, I don't want to
make you an upset or cry, but we had so
many positive comments when you gave the keynote, you know,
so I was desperate to get you to talk again.
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So we found a way to do that. So Sarah
will be talking again, just reflecting a little bit maybe
on your time and you. But I, if you think
about it, we still got a little bit of time.
I would love to maybe get the audience to hear
what you have planned. You've got another chapter. I know
you've thought about what's next don't tell the audience now,
they'll have to come. But it'd be nice to hear
what you're thinking next, because I know you ahead of
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yours thinking about things.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
About like my future. Yeah, so don't.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Tell us, don't tell us now, No wonder you want
me to talk well at the walk?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh okay, Yeah, so you guys are gonna have to wait, Yes,
just a little over a week and then you'll hear
all about my future and amazing, beautiful, wonderful plans.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's that's right, thank you. See, they have to come
Sarah for the walk. I don't want you to otherwise, right,
no spoilers, but I know you're up to some so
folks will we'll listen to Sarah though. We're going to
try to encourage everybody to talk at their table. We've
got some little table tent things to help maybe get
the conversation started. We're hoping after you hear from Sarah,
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you might people might start talking at their tables. But
if not, we've got some prompts there that will help them.
Because what we've learned over the years of doing this
is everybody that comes has this personal history and sometimes
this is like one of the only events that they
feel comfortable talking about the loss of their loved one
or their friend. So we don't want to miss the
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opportunity for them to open up if they want to
talk about how they're doing, because as we all know,
grief it takes different amounts of time for everybody and
there is no like right way to grieve, you know,
it takes a different path exactly. So come out to
the event. Like I said, it's at no cost. September
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twenty eight, two to four, roughly no charge, Ashlyn MHRB
dot org to sign up now. In addition to helping
with events like this, Sarah and raising awareness all the
different dimensions that you and Sammy do, what else is
coming up on campus that is at all mental health
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related or wellness team related that you can tell the
audience about.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So one of the big things that we have, which
I believe you'll be there as well for, is our
QPH QPR training excuse me, which is it's sounds like
CPR training, which kind of is, but it's for suicide
prevention and just being able to see the warning signs
for somebody that may be in need and feels as
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though that they're struggling with their mental health and maybe
attempting suicide here in the new future or something like that.
But as well with that, we also have goat yoga. Sammy,
do you want to talk about tell us more about it?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So everyone loves when we bring animals on campus in
the spring. We also do distressed with Animals, which we
usually have goats for two but last year we didn't.
But anyways, goat yoga we will have in our wreklon.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
What the date again, it's in like a weekend, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But anyways, we're gonna have six baby goats.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There's not a lot of actually six baby goats go ahead,
there's not.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
A lot of yoga goat that goes on. You kind
of just hold the goats, let go on your back.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But are there some goat wranglers there that make sure
that so.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Our wellness team members are gonna be managing a goat
if we can.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, yeah, we'll have a person managing each goat. Like,
there's still yoga that goes on, but it's more about
like the goat, yeah, and getting your body moving and
like that. No, it's not students love it. We had
I believe a little over one hundred last year out
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to this and I think we're expecting even more this year.
So yeah, it's it's one of our biggest Goat yoga.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, yeah, so that's coming up soon.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, what else we got going on? We had QPR
question persuade refer that's our suicide prevention goat yoga.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Goat yoga, yep. And we also have World Mental Health
Day coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yep. I think I might see you for that one.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah. So World Mental Health Day is on October first,
and we do a four hour event in the Student
Center for this every single year and it's a blessing
that we get donations from two different organizations and one
of them is Headstrom and then Benson Benson. I believe
I'm pronouncing that right, Bend Bended Bendon. Yes, sorry, excuse
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my pronunciation there.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
From South Ohio.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Oh yeah, just go to Old Cincinnati. But so yeah,
we have that from ten to two pm and it's
not only available to students but as well as faculty
and staff. And we have a bunch of different things
that surround your mental health and just coping with that.
So like, for instance, we have a bunch of stress balls,
there's coloring books there, you make fidget key trenes. But
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as well as with the free things that you can
get for to help your mental health, we also have
a bunch of different resources there. So yeah, of course
mental Health and Recovery Board will be there, yes we will,
but as well as apple Seed and different organizations on
campus and as well as off of campus. So yeah,
it's one of our biggest events in this fall semester
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and students absolutely love it and we get a big, big,
big it's one of our biggest participation numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Awesome. I am looking forward to and we had a
blast last year. I think last year is our first
year that we participated, and it was You're right, there's
a we couldn't believe the volume of students that we're
able to take part in it. And something else you
mention I wanted to draw out there is in some
communities there's not the great participation or collaboration between the
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university and the town that they're located. There's different names
for that called town gown relation. There's all these but
the long and short of it is that is there's
not always a great partnership between the town and the institution,
the college and university, and you're part of doctor McKnight
and others are part of that is not the case
in Ashton County. I have never felt that we could
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not partner on projects. You mentioned apples and us. You've
partnered with our local mental health substance use agencies forever
in this community. And I can't tell you what a
blessing that is that the university does that, because when
there are those barriers or those the relationships are difficult
to manage, all that does is hurt both the town
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and the university when you have that ability to share resources,
collaborated on projects, whether it's safe Haven and some of
the work that they're doing on campus or mental health
substance use. So that's a great and that's a plug
not only for you and Sammy document night, but the
president everybody there. There's been a history of that over
the years in Ashton County. We appreciate the university and
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the partnership because I think you guys probably know they
you're the largest employer in our town, so oh yeah, yeah,
you guys employ a lot of people, so it's good
to have a good working relationship. That's right. Right, Is
that is that the right? Yeah? Yeah, e e Ags.
That doesn't sound right. You know, somebody on campus they
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had some kind of weird contest where they had to
count up all the Eagles that were on the campus.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, they all have names to women's soccer team. Did
a scavenger hunt for it once and seeing how many
eagles we can so a lot of them. There's a ton.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I had no idea how many there was.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know what that maybe one twenty six.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Don't Yeah, somebody's gonna call in.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, that might be wrong. It was over one hundred though,
I it's over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I couldn't But again, go EAGs.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
All right, good ways, and again you're both student athletes,
and Sarah you are. You're going to be on the
soccer team. You are? Have you already started matches?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah? So today is actually our first game for conference play,
and it's actually our Morgan's Message game today. So Morgan's
Message is this organization that was started after a female
athlete had died by suicide, and it became this bigger
thing and now it's across campuses around the nation, and
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so we're super excited to be able to do that,
and my team is actually we created our own shirts
to be able to wear to the game today and
that's awesome. Mental Health and Recovery Board for Ashland Counties
on the back, always supporting. But yeah, so we're extremely
excited for that today. It's a little you won't see it.
It's now it's September eighteenth.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Tonight, but yeah, understood. Yeah, folks can look it up
and keep going? Is that your Yeah? Is that your slogan?
Did you create that?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah? So, I like it's always been my thing ever since.
If you didn't know, my dad died by suicide and
my saying has always been keep going. And I was
actually home this summer and found something from two thousand
and fourteen, the year my father had passed away, of
my handwriting saying keep going. But it's just been it's
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become this saying that people have taken over on campus
and just taken in as their own and it just
I started a small mental health clothing business with it,
and it's just it's gone great. But yeah, I'm always
telling people to keep going, say another day that they're
not alone, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I love that, Sarah, keep going. It's optimistic. It's future focused.
You can get through this. There are people that are
in supports you. I just love it. I remember when
I first started seeing that come out for you. I
just wanted to say I haven't had a chance to
tell you. I just think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
She very great. Now, Sammy, you are on the valetball team. Yeah,
all right, so it's volleyball also you guys season, Okay,
how's that going? Should we expect wonderful things spiking and
all kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, so we just came back from Florida, like I said,
and oh that was off Mike, but's o.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, we were talking. We were chatting about that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But we have our first conference play to this Friday
at home, so that'll be fun. But yeah, you know,
we got some good returners and we have some good
freshmen coming in.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Did anybody come in through the portal one? Okay, so
that's happened, I know with basketball so and the other sports,
like it's a big deal. But yeah, we had three
get three in soccer. Okay. Well, in addition to watching
Sarah and Sam we play sports. I mean, obviously they're
doing wonderful things on the campus with the wellness team
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and they're also we didn't talk about it, but you
also have majors. Right, you're actually getting degrees, Sarah, Can
you say what your degree is going to be?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, well, we actually both have the same too.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh I did not know that. Ye what do you
guys both?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah? Okay, I have a minor, so those may be different. Yeah.
So both of our majors is in psychology. Okay, we
have left love psychology. But my miners are in addictions
counseling as well as entrepreneurship.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Mine is in child and family relationships.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That is wonderful. I mean, I am very impressed with
this next generation. I have to tell you my generation.
I'm an I'm an exerpt. That means I'm really old.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But it's the time.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But you younger folks are really impressed me. You have
a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
We try.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I'm getting sleepy right now. I can barely make it
through this podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Lots of coffee. She's a coffee drinker, not me.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Good. Interesting and I agree with you on that. What
else before we wrap up? What else? Doo? Folks need
to know about the wellness team? What's going on in au?
Sarah Sammy, what's going on? Anything else?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No? Just follow us on EU dot Wellness Team on
Instagram and talk.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How do they do that? Yeah? Follow it?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, follow it. It's a U.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
My audience is fifty and up, So go slow. Wellness
Team Wellness Team dot com. No no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But we also that's our social media. But our page
on the internet is Wellness at Ashland dot edu.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, wellness at it okay.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, and you can also find what other things we're
doing within our rec Center and wellness as well as
at www dot Ashland dot edu slash recreation dash Wellness.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right, I'll put all this in the description for sure.
So if folks want to learn much more about everything
we've talked about with the Wellness Team, that's the place
to go. And if you haven't already, you should sign
up for the Suside Prevention and Awareness Walk September twenty eight,
two to four. Come out. I'm hoping Sarah and Sammy
will both be there. You can. She can sign your shirt,
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you know, she can do all things.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Save one day nuts not there yet, guys, it's the dream.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well thank you both for your time this afternoon, and
I hope to see you audience and Sarah and Sammy
at the walk soon. Bye, no, thank you, Thank you
for listening to another episode of the Keeping Ashland Healthy podcast.
The podcast is a production of the Mental Health and
Recovery Board of Ashland County, Ohio. You can reach the
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Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us and welcome to
the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast. In the studio, super excited.
Two folks that one you know, the other one you
may not know, Sarah Watson and Sammy Young, both from
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Ashton University. Welcome to the studio here at the Mental
Health and Recovery Board.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thank you for happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, this is exciting because both Sammy and Sarah we're
going to talk about the suicide Prevention and Awareness Walk
that's coming up on the twenty eighth. That's something we've
been doing for multiple years. Sarah's been helping us multiple
years since she's been in her position on the wellness team,
and Sammy is coming along beside her. And this happens
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all the time, Sarah, students graduate, I lose them, they
go away and they hardly ever stay. You're probably leaving
for far flung. I don't know Cincinnati or something. I
don't know where you're going.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, this is short, little three hours away.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So this is why it's so important that we bring
up the next generation on campus and quite frankly, we
do the same thing here in the community. When we
have counselors and social workers. We always have to have
a bench, as they say in sports. And guess who's
on the bench. Sammy Young's on the bench. So we're
going to talk about sam We got interested in taking
on the wellness team, but I don't want to assume
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the audience knows what one that Ashton University has a
wellness team and kind of what you do there, Sarah,
And maybe we can talk a little bit about what
Sammy does as well, but I think the audience would
be interested in knowing more about why does Ashley even care,
why do they think they need a wellness team, and
then what happens. So if you can talk a little
bit about that and yourself too, Sarah, whatever you want
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to do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well. If you don't know me, my name is Sarah
Watson and I am a senior here at Ashland University.
I have one more semester left, so I'm graduate reading
sadly in the fall, but happy to go on some
new adventures in life, be in the workforce. But yeah, yes,
make some money, but I don't know, it depends on
who I work for We'll see, we'll see, but definitely
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in the mental health world.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Still all right, well, you definitely won't make any money
if you're working in mental health.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But that's okay. It's all about the passion and the
commitment and the love for it. But yeah, So I
came in as a freshman to Ashland and I just
didn't really see much awareness around suicide prevention or just
the talk about mental health. And so I reached out
to a bunch of people and just kind of made
it my mission to be the mental health girl on campus.
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And then I found out that we had a wellness program,
but I just didn't feel like it was being used
to the capacity that it could be being used to.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
A lot of folks maybe didn't even know about it
on campus.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, okay, So I the second semester of my freshman year,
the wellness intern position was opening up. Oh I it
was a little bit scared because I'm a student athlete
and just it's a lot on campus and just being
a new environment. But I took the leap and I
interviewed for the position and then got the position. Yeah,
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they actually did. Isn't that insane?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Wow, it's not like the now, okay, all right, yeah
they take it seriously.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, they took a leap of faith on little Sarah Watson.
But so I took the position and the summer was
just like thinking about, oh what do I want to do.
Came in and me and my boss shout out to
Janelle Monar. I absolutely love her, a great, amazing boss.
She was also Staff Member of the Year last year,
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so go chel awesome. But so we thought that we
agreed that there was still on more of a need
on campus. So we started the Wellness Team at the
end of the fall semester in my second year here,
So that was in twenty twenty three, okay, going into
twenty twenty four. So we really full launched what the
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Wellness Team was in late twenty twenty three and early
into twenty twenty four. And basically it's a student organization
here on campus at Ashland University that is just spreading
awareness about our seven dimensions of wellness and just helping
students know that they have a voice and we want
them to be well regarding if that's their environmental wellness,
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their mental wellness, their social, physical, X, Y and Z.
So yeah, we really dived in with it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's a trouble when you have seven of them, right,
you have to remember.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Also, yeah, I can, I mean I can listen them.
I got it. Intellectual wellness, we've got a lot more occupational.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I love that because it's comprehensive. I love that you
guys looked at all the different dimensions the way you do.
That's really good. So, like you said, I think maybe
off Mike, you're you're very passionate about what you do,
so you know it's really not work. I mean, I
know it takes your time, but very passionate. I've known
you for a few years now and I kind attest
to your passion for what you're doing and the difference
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you're making on campus. So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Thanks DVID. Yeah, appreciated. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Sammy, tell us a little bit about you, because at
some point you came onto the campus. You must have
heard about this wellness team and this this Sarah person,
and you know, what were your impressions? What'd you think?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, it was very quick everything that happened. I joined
the wellness team in the spring semester of my freshman year,
so just last semester. I wasn't in it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
In the fall.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Okay, I didn't really know what to do without volleyball
in my life. So it's like, I want to join clubs.
I want to get into this campus, get to know everybody.
So one of my teammates was on the wellness team
and she was like, Sarah lives right next to me.
I can ask her if she is open to like
interviewing you.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I was like, yeah, sure, like let's do it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Like I know a lot about wellness, like I'm very
passionate about That wasn't until I was actually on the
team and getting to know Sarah that I found such
a passion for it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And when Sarah asked me to take over for her.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I was so shocked because I was just this little
fresh and I'm like, wait me, I've only been on
this team for like months months. I'm like, are you
joking with me right now? Like there's seriously no one
else you want to ask? And so she just like
filled my tank up so much. And then just as
I got to know Sarah throughout that semester, I could
just like she's the best mentor like the best leader
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that I could ever ask for, and just like honestly
like a really great person a really great friend.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it's been.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Very exciting to get to know her and get to
know about this program.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And so, yeah, she's the pro.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
She's gonna be doing most of the talking because I'm
still learning. But yeah, I'm so excited to take over.
Obviously it's a little scary. I think if I didn't
have her this semester then I would have had to
think about it a lot more. But since that I
get to learn off of her, since she created this, like,
it's just amazing and I feel a lot more comfortable
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doing so.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, Sammy, it is nice to have you on board.
And I can tell you it was intentional that there
be some time together. I mean, I know Sarah really
thought through. She didn't just want somebody to kind of
take over that didn't have a chance to walk beside
her and learn from her. And so that's another thing.
You are wise beyond your years, Sarah Watson, just that
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you didn't want this program excuse me, to not have
this kind of smooth transition. You knew it was going
to take some planning and some thought on how do
we go about doing this, not only picking the right person,
but then how do we onboard them as we say
in the work community, how do we onboard them, get
them oriented doing this so that when I hand this off,
you know it's smooth as it can be. And I'm
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excited Sammy that you're coming on. Hopefully, hopefully you don't
enter some transfer portal or something crazy, but hopefully you're
going to be at AU for a few years so
we can get some continuity, just like we've had with Sarah.
And but we've got Sarah for a few more events
before she graduates and makes zero money and constantly on
social work. So and I only say that. I only
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say that because you know, I am a counselor by profession,
and most of the people say that they do enter
it because it's it's personal and we're passionate. Now, do
I wish the field would up their pay scills? You
bet I do, and I advocate for you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Mental health is getting more talked about every every single day,
so I think maybe it'll grow a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And I agree with you, Sammy, I'm hoping we've been advocating.
COVID was a huge, like eye openly people said, oh
my gosh, people that maybe never even thought about talking
to a counselor before after the pandemic or during they
were like, wow, you know I need help. Yeah. I
thought I had enough coping skills or I had enough
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whatever to get through something like this, and I found
out I didn't. So it really did raise good awareness.
I hope you're right. I mean, we're so c hoping
that people value it and we can't attract young people
into the field unless it pays decently. And I think
most young people that graduate with loans, I mean, I
mean that's a real thing right there, Like I want
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to pay that off, right, I don't want to walk
around for the next ten or fifteen years with this
huge debt hanging over my head. And I'd like to
start family, I'd like to get a house, whatever, and yeah,
so it's got to be reasonable pay So I hope
you're right seeing it. I hope it starts to get better.
So this one of the events that you're helping us promote,
and you're going to be at you have been for
the last couple of years, is our Prevention Suicide Prevention
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Awareness Walk, which is on September twenty eighth, audience two
to four over at Ashton University the Convocation Center, Upper Convo.
We start there and we end there with a meal,
and we've got a lot of things that go on
in between. It's kind of a rain or shine thing.
If we really really need to use a rain location,
we have one over at the this Center, but we try.
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We've been very fortunate doing this nine ten years. We've
always been able to walk, even in a few times
where it was a light rain. But the whole idea
of this walk is, you know, the whole month of
as you know, the whole month of September is SUSIDE
Prevention Awareness Month in Ashton County. I went to the
commissioners back in August for the I don't know fifth
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or sixth time they declared the whole month as SUITSID
prevention and awareness. But we cap it all off with
this walk and Sarah, you know, you get some of
the student athletes to participate, but everybody that shows up
for this, they are walking. It's personal. Last year, I
don't know if you call it, it was like a
light drizzle and I was asking people. I was like,
what are you doing here on a Sunday afternoon in
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the rain? Walking? Why did you not just stay at home?
Because our turnout was great and I just love the answers.
People are just like, because I lost my brother, I
lost my sister, I lost my son, and this is
really matter, This is important for me. So I always
tell my board and the community this is by far
our most personal, passionate event that we do. And you've
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been a big part of that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Thanks. So.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, And Sarah keynoted a couple of years back and
she helped us with this year's keynote, which is going
to be Nick Barber. Can you maybe tell the audience
a little bit about Nick, because I don'tant to assume people
know who Nick is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So Nick Barber, he's often called Barber or Barber at AU.
He is a medically retired wrestler. He's now in his
senior year, just like me. But Nick came to Ashland
University and he just completely lost himself mentally, didn't really
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have an outlet. He was playing a sport. It was
a lot with school, everything going on with the transition,
and he I don't want to tell his story because
this is his story, sure, but he eventually led to
a point in his life where he felt like he
couldn't continue to go on anymore. And so after that
he he got some help and completely has changed his
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life and everything in a positive and happy manner, and
I'm so proud of him. I consider Nick one of
my close friends and everything, but just the way that
he's handled such adversity and hardship in his life has
just been beautiful to watch and be alongside him for that,
and just his faith in it all. So yeah, but
I'm extremely excited for Barb or Nick however you want
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to call him this year. I know he's super excited
and he's one of the most caring and humbled people
that I know, So.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, that's awesome. So you know, for the audience, Nick
will be our keynote before we walk. So maybe I'll
just go through the program real quick. Folks can register
register now, I mean through really September twenty eighth. If
you come in even walk in, we might have you
sign a release form, but other than that, it's obviously
no cost to walk. If you go to Ashland MHRB
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dot org Ashlyn mhr dot org you can register or
just call us four one nine two eight one three
one three nine. I'll put all this in the episode description.
Try not to write this down when you're driving. I
do stuff like that. It's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Very had some casualties on the way here. Yes, yeah,
Samy really was keeping us alive in the car with
me driving today.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Very good. So we will folks can come. We've got
some nice giveaways when they show up at two. There's
multiple vendors that are going to be set up, some
of our partners, and there'll be information that I think
makes sense for the event. We'll kick things off with
mister Barber given the keynote will walk. The walk isn't
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really that long. It's really not about the distance. It's
really about reflection and conversations that people have along the way.
About halfway through the walk, we we stop right down
on Claremont in Maine, where the County building's at. There's
a veterans memorial there, and we partner. We've been doing
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this for several years with what's called Silent Watch. So
Silent Watch is an organization and an effort, a movement,
if you will, headed up by Tim Chandler here locally
to bring attention to suicides in our military and our
law enforcement. So they're going to be doing an event
down there all day on the twenty eighth, but they're
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going to allow us to go down everybody that's walking
and our group will go down and we'll stand a
watch with them for ten minutes and then we'll complete
the rest of our walk. But I thought that was
really kind of tim to allow us to be part
of their event, because they have a bunch of folks
that agree to stand a watch for thirty minutes again
throughout the whole day, just to draw attention to those
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vets and first responders, because unfortunately, Sam and Sarah you
probably know this, the rates of suicide amongst our first
responders in our military are much higher than general population.
So that's a focus area. We're trying to do better
with those population groups. So folks will join that for
ten minutes, we'll finish the walk, we'll come back, and
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then we've got a little bit of programming going on.
But at the same time we're doing the programming, there's
a light meal, so again that's also included. Folks can
sit at a table, eat a light meal, and then
we're going to have you come up, Sarah, And you
know you might have forgot that, but no, no, you're
coming up. You're going to talk a little bit about
what you've been doing because we realized when we were
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planning for this, and planning for these things takes months.
So we've been doing this for a few months, but
we it just hit me when we were planning, I
was like, uh, oh, this is the last time Sarah
is going to be part of the planning committee and
part of the walk because of your graduation. I just
assume it took six seven years to get a four
of you to degree, but apparently not. Apparently some people
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still graduate on time. So Sarah decided yes to graduate early.
So this was our last walk. So I was like, oh,
So I was trying to work you in because I
had so many you know this, I don't want to
make you an upset or cry, but we had so
many positive comments when you gave the keynote, you know,
so I was desperate to get you to talk again.
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So we found a way to do that. So Sarah
will be talking again, just reflecting a little bit maybe
on your time and you. But I, if you think
about it, we still got a little bit of time.
I would love to maybe get the audience to hear
what you have planned. You've got another chapter. I know
you've thought about what's next don't tell the audience now,
they'll have to come. But it'd be nice to hear
what you're thinking next, because I know you ahead of
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yours thinking about things.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
About like my future. Yeah, so don't.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Tell us, don't tell us now, No wonder you want
me to talk well at the walk?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh okay, Yeah, so you guys are gonna have to wait, Yes,
just a little over a week and then you'll hear
all about my future and amazing, beautiful, wonderful plans.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's that's right, thank you. See, they have to come
Sarah for the walk. I don't want you to otherwise, right,
no spoilers, but I know you're up to some so
folks will we'll listen to Sarah though. We're going to
try to encourage everybody to talk at their table. We've
got some little table tent things to help maybe get
the conversation started. We're hoping after you hear from Sarah,
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you might people might start talking at their tables. But
if not, we've got some prompts there that will help them.
Because what we've learned over the years of doing this
is everybody that comes has this personal history and sometimes
this is like one of the only events that they
feel comfortable talking about the loss of their loved one
or their friend. So we don't want to miss the
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opportunity for them to open up if they want to
talk about how they're doing, because as we all know,
grief it takes different amounts of time for everybody and
there is no like right way to grieve, you know,
it takes a different path exactly. So come out to
the event. Like I said, it's at no cost. September
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twenty eight, two to four, roughly no charge, Ashlyn MHRB
dot org to sign up now. In addition to helping
with events like this, Sarah and raising awareness all the
different dimensions that you and Sammy do, what else is
coming up on campus that is at all mental health
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related or wellness team related that you can tell the
audience about.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So one of the big things that we have, which
I believe you'll be there as well for, is our
QPH QPR training excuse me, which is it's sounds like
CPR training, which kind of is, but it's for suicide
prevention and just being able to see the warning signs
for somebody that may be in need and feels as
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though that they're struggling with their mental health and maybe
attempting suicide here in the new future or something like that.
But as well with that, we also have goat yoga. Sammy,
do you want to talk about tell us more about it?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So everyone loves when we bring animals on campus in
the spring. We also do distressed with Animals, which we
usually have goats for two but last year we didn't.
But anyways, goat yoga we will have in our wreklon.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
What the date again, it's in like a weekend, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But anyways, we're gonna have six baby goats.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There's not a lot of actually six baby goats go ahead,
there's not.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
A lot of yoga goat that goes on. You kind
of just hold the goats, let go on your back.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But are there some goat wranglers there that make sure
that so.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Our wellness team members are gonna be managing a goat
if we can.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, yeah, we'll have a person managing each goat. Like,
there's still yoga that goes on, but it's more about
like the goat, yeah, and getting your body moving and
like that. No, it's not students love it. We had
I believe a little over one hundred last year out
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to this and I think we're expecting even more this year.
So yeah, it's it's one of our biggest Goat yoga.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, yeah, so that's coming up soon.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, what else we got going on? We had QPR
question persuade refer that's our suicide prevention goat yoga.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Goat yoga, yep. And we also have World Mental Health
Day coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yep. I think I might see you for that one.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah. So World Mental Health Day is on October first,
and we do a four hour event in the Student
Center for this every single year and it's a blessing
that we get donations from two different organizations and one
of them is Headstrom and then Benson Benson. I believe
I'm pronouncing that right, Bend Bended Bendon. Yes, sorry, excuse
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my pronunciation there.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
From South Ohio.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Oh yeah, just go to Old Cincinnati. But so yeah,
we have that from ten to two pm and it's
not only available to students but as well as faculty
and staff. And we have a bunch of different things
that surround your mental health and just coping with that.
So like, for instance, we have a bunch of stress balls,
there's coloring books there, you make fidget key trenes. But
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as well as with the free things that you can
get for to help your mental health, we also have
a bunch of different resources there. So yeah, of course
mental Health and Recovery Board will be there, yes we will,
but as well as apple Seed and different organizations on
campus and as well as off of campus. So yeah,
it's one of our biggest events in this fall semester
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and students absolutely love it and we get a big, big,
big it's one of our biggest participation numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Awesome. I am looking forward to and we had a
blast last year. I think last year is our first
year that we participated, and it was You're right, there's
a we couldn't believe the volume of students that we're
able to take part in it. And something else you
mention I wanted to draw out there is in some
communities there's not the great participation or collaboration between the
(22:02):
university and the town that they're located. There's different names
for that called town gown relation. There's all these but
the long and short of it is that is there's
not always a great partnership between the town and the institution,
the college and university, and you're part of doctor McKnight
and others are part of that is not the case
in Ashton County. I have never felt that we could
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not partner on projects. You mentioned apples and us. You've
partnered with our local mental health substance use agencies forever
in this community. And I can't tell you what a
blessing that is that the university does that, because when
there are those barriers or those the relationships are difficult
to manage, all that does is hurt both the town
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and the university when you have that ability to share resources,
collaborated on projects, whether it's safe Haven and some of
the work that they're doing on campus or mental health
substance use. So that's a great and that's a plug
not only for you and Sammy document night, but the
president everybody there. There's been a history of that over
the years in Ashton County. We appreciate the university and
(23:09):
the partnership because I think you guys probably know they
you're the largest employer in our town, so oh yeah, yeah,
you guys employ a lot of people, so it's good
to have a good working relationship. That's right. Right, Is
that is that the right? Yeah? Yeah, e e Ags.
That doesn't sound right. You know, somebody on campus they
(23:31):
had some kind of weird contest where they had to
count up all the Eagles that were on the campus.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, they all have names to women's soccer team. Did
a scavenger hunt for it once and seeing how many
eagles we can so a lot of them. There's a ton.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I had no idea how many there was.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know what that maybe one twenty six.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Don't Yeah, somebody's gonna call in.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, that might be wrong. It was over one hundred though,
I it's over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I couldn't But again, go EAGs.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
All right, good ways, and again you're both student athletes,
and Sarah you are. You're going to be on the
soccer team. You are? Have you already started matches?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah? So today is actually our first game for conference play,
and it's actually our Morgan's Message game today. So Morgan's
Message is this organization that was started after a female
athlete had died by suicide, and it became this bigger
thing and now it's across campuses around the nation, and
(24:30):
so we're super excited to be able to do that,
and my team is actually we created our own shirts
to be able to wear to the game today and
that's awesome. Mental Health and Recovery Board for Ashland Counties
on the back, always supporting. But yeah, so we're extremely
excited for that today. It's a little you won't see it.
It's now it's September eighteenth.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Tonight, but yeah, understood. Yeah, folks can look it up
and keep going? Is that your Yeah? Is that your slogan?
Did you create that?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah? So, I like it's always been my thing ever since.
If you didn't know, my dad died by suicide and
my saying has always been keep going. And I was
actually home this summer and found something from two thousand
and fourteen, the year my father had passed away, of
my handwriting saying keep going. But it's just been it's
(25:22):
become this saying that people have taken over on campus
and just taken in as their own and it just
I started a small mental health clothing business with it,
and it's just it's gone great. But yeah, I'm always
telling people to keep going, say another day that they're
not alone, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I love that, Sarah, keep going. It's optimistic. It's future focused.
You can get through this. There are people that are
in supports you. I just love it. I remember when
I first started seeing that come out for you. I
just wanted to say I haven't had a chance to
tell you. I just think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
She very great. Now, Sammy, you are on the valetball team. Yeah,
all right, so it's volleyball also you guys season, Okay,
how's that going? Should we expect wonderful things spiking and
all kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, so we just came back from Florida, like I said,
and oh that was off Mike, but's o.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, we were talking. We were chatting about that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But we have our first conference play to this Friday
at home, so that'll be fun. But yeah, you know,
we got some good returners and we have some good
freshmen coming in.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Did anybody come in through the portal one? Okay, so
that's happened, I know with basketball so and the other sports,
like it's a big deal. But yeah, we had three
get three in soccer. Okay. Well, in addition to watching
Sarah and Sam we play sports. I mean, obviously they're
doing wonderful things on the campus with the wellness team
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and they're also we didn't talk about it, but you
also have majors. Right, you're actually getting degrees, Sarah, Can
you say what your degree is going to be?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, well, we actually both have the same too.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh I did not know that. Ye what do you
guys both?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah? Okay, I have a minor, so those may be different. Yeah.
So both of our majors is in psychology. Okay, we
have left love psychology. But my miners are in addictions
counseling as well as entrepreneurship.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Mine is in child and family relationships.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That is wonderful. I mean, I am very impressed with
this next generation. I have to tell you my generation.
I'm an I'm an exerpt. That means I'm really old.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But it's the time.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But you younger folks are really impressed me. You have
a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
We try.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I'm getting sleepy right now. I can barely make it
through this podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Lots of coffee. She's a coffee drinker, not me.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Good. Interesting and I agree with you on that. What
else before we wrap up? What else? Doo? Folks need
to know about the wellness team? What's going on in au?
Sarah Sammy, what's going on? Anything else?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No? Just follow us on EU dot Wellness Team on
Instagram and talk.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How do they do that? Yeah? Follow it?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, follow it. It's a U.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
My audience is fifty and up, So go slow. Wellness
Team Wellness Team dot com. No no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But we also that's our social media. But our page
on the internet is Wellness at Ashland dot edu.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, wellness at it okay.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, and you can also find what other things we're
doing within our rec Center and wellness as well as
at www dot Ashland dot edu slash recreation dash Wellness.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right, I'll put all this in the description for sure.
So if folks want to learn much more about everything
we've talked about with the Wellness Team, that's the place
to go. And if you haven't already, you should sign
up for the Suside Prevention and Awareness Walk September twenty eight,
two to four. Come out. I'm hoping Sarah and Sammy
will both be there. You can. She can sign your shirt,
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you know, she can do all things.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Save one day nuts not there yet, guys, it's the dream.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well thank you both for your time this afternoon, and
I hope to see you audience and Sarah and Sammy
at the walk soon. Bye, no, thank you, Thank you
for listening to another episode of the Keeping Ashland Healthy podcast.
The podcast is a production of the Mental Health and
Recovery Board of Ashland County, Ohio. You can reach the
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Board by calling four one nine two eight one three
one three nine. Please remember that the Board funds a
local twenty four to seven crisis line through Applese Community
Mental Health Center. It can be reached by calling four
one nine two eight nine six one one one. That's
four one nine two eight nine six to one one one.
Until next time. Please join us in keeping Ashland Healthy.
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