This new initiative is a joint venture involving University College Cork, NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin and Dundalk IT and has attracted €1 million investment from government and college funds.

The My Mind Matters website is the result of a Mental Health Portal Project in which students were central to making decisions about the type of service they wanted and needed. Focus groups of students in the four colleges participated on the design of the site which included colours, font styles, images, interactive features, navigation and layout. An ongoing feedback facility within the site is planned to ensure that it continually caters for the needs of students. It is hoped that the web portal will become a national widely availed of service.

 Mr Paul Moriarty, Head of Student Counselling & Development in UCC says,” My Mind Matters is an online resource for an online population. These are challenging times for students which is reflected in record numbers of students seeking counselling. It is our hope that this resource will be of particular benefit to students who find it difficult to access support for a variety of reasons. It can serve as a source of self-help information and programmes as well as being a signpost to further appropriate student supports.”  

Log onto http://www.mymindmatters.ie

Picture:  L-R: Mr Paul Moriarty, Head of Student Counselling & Development, UCC; Mr Ryan Tubridy, RTE; Dr Michael Byrne, Head of Student Health Department, UCC and Professor Nollaig Mac Congáil, Registrar/Deputy President of NUI Galway.

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