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Fourth-year students Leyla Barkhordar and Rachel Teo founded the Instagram account Mental Wellness Resources at UCLA to increase the accessibility of resources to students. Barkhordar said the social media platform not only allows the pair to widely distribute information but also gives them artistic freedom in their posts through graphics. (Esther Li/Daily Bruin)

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Students elevate and explain UCLA&#8217;s mental health resources via Instagram

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A C-session class united two students in becoming mental wellness advocates. The Instagram account Mental Wellness Resources at UCLA was originally created for a final project in Sociology M148: “Sociology of Mental Illness.” Fourth-year students Leyla Barkhordar and Rachel Teo founded the page in August to combat the inaccessibility of resources amid remote learning.

https://dailybruin.com/2020/09/22/students-elevate-and-explain-uclas-mental-health-resources-via-instagram/

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Students elevate and explain UCLA’s mental health resources via Instagram

By Kaitlin Browne

Sept. 22, 2020 10:31 a.m.