Speaking Your Language: Promoting Mental Health Awareness and Support for International and Students New to Canada

• Learn to recognize language that international students use to talk about mental health, and incorporate this into your interactions with students
• Understand some of the key challenges that international students’ face as well as their perceptions towards mental health that have been identified in the international education literature and cross-cultural counselling literature
• Discuss opportunities and challenges in culturally- or linguistically-specific, or counselling-centered approaches

Abu Arif
Coordinator of International Student Services and the Speaking Your Language project, Ryerson University

Pratishtha Kohli
Third Year student of Psychology and Criminology at U of T, Student Coordinator for Speaking Your Language U of T and Events Director at the Centre for International Experience Global Lounge