Sarah Chapdelaine
Sarah Chapdelaine, a second year Master of Occupational Therapy student, won the Health Talks Student Contest from the B.C. Patient Safety & Quality Council.
The contest was open to all post-secondary, high school and elementary school students in B.C., and asked applicants to express their hopes for health care, either through essay, a video, or a mixed media project.
Chapdelaine’s essay on stigma and suicide was chosen as the winning submission. In her essay, she hopes for us to evolve the language used around suicide as it relates to mental illness so we can remove stigma, facilitate recovery for those at risk, and help heal those left behind.
As the winner of the Health Talks Student Contest, Chapdelaine will deliver a Pecha Kucha presentation at the Health Talks event on February 26, 2014. In the Pecha Kucha format, each presentation contains 20 slides and each slide is displayed for exactly 20 seconds before automatically advancing to the next one.