UCLA announced that Cleveland Cavaliers star and former UCLA standout committed $500,000 through his foundation to establish a new Kevin Love Fund Centennial Chair in psychology. Love’s contribution, matched by the Centennial Term Chair Match, will fund research aimed to prevent, diagnose, treat and end the stigma around anxiety and depression. The news was announced […]
In an article focused on mental health in the time of coronavirus, UCLA Magazine highlighted the UCLA COVID-19 Care Package created in partnership with Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD initiative and Jack Dorsey’s Start Small fund. The article shared the “five C’s” for managing COVID-19 anxiety, as well as COVID-19–related insights from UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske […]
The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge (DGC) Leadership team shared a communication with supporters of the DGC and visitors to the STAND Together During COVID-19 website on June 7, 2020 in solidarity with the response that has followed the wrongful deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arber.
A reflection on the Mental Health Coalition’s #HowAreYouReally Challenge By Veronica Fernandez In Colombia, we have a troubling conception of stop signs, we consider them a mere suggestion, a lack of acceleration, but we never really pause. When you grow up always running, sometimes decelerating, but never genuinely stopping, a global pandemic will knock you […]
UCLA Depression Grand Challenge (DGC) Co-Director Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry professor) talked with “UCLA Health Zone Show” co-hosts Dr. Phil Cohen and Adam Auslund on May 23, 2020.During her segment, Michelle covered: