Mental Health at UC

Berkeley
Mykaela Barnes, Aroldo Orellana, Zobia Quraishi
Our Initial Project Goals

● Change campus climate around mental illness

● Increase mental health resources on campus
● Change the environments that perpetuate mental
illness
Observed
 HMW?
● HMW expand resources at Tang to better
accommodate students?
● HMW use existing resources to further address mental
health on campus?
● HMW increase the university’s liability for student
mental health?
● HMW change campus culture so that mental illness is
not reinforced by university systems?
● HMW analyze the DSP system?
● HMW start conversations about mental health?
Framing
 How might we bring resources
to students who need them and
change campus faculty’s
accountability for student mental
health?
Design
 Team Experience
Highs
Connecting with other
people passionate about Interviewing students Multiple final products!
mental health
Reading MH books
Emotional

Learning all the issues

with MH on campus
Ineffective prototypes

Overwhelmed with work

Lows
4/1 4/3 4/8 4/10 4/15 4/17 4/22 4/24 4/29
 Our Process
Abstract
Campus HMW?
policies
Mental Education and
Health awareness
books Translating into
tangible
Surveys
products

Analysis Synthesis
Interviews Proposed
Book policy Book club
reviews
Board
Syllabi Resource
game
analysis fliers
Concrete
Experiment/Final Outcomes