Yep, and I might still do that, but I suspect what I have in mind isn’t a good fit for the reasons mentioned in the post.
Curious about what resource specifically you have in mind!
I think resources for family/best friends/employers of mentally ill folks is a neglected space. You have a group of people who are extremely incentivised to help (maybe employers less so), have the opportunity for a high marginal impact, but who in my experience usually have no idea what they’re doing.
I’m also attracted to potential knock-on benefits from something like this to how mental health is discussed more generally, which I’d currently characterize as at best well-intentioned but pretty poor (and far worse than that in some areas of the world).
Here’s something with a different focus (training a more general ‘first line of defence’ support network at a university), but that shares some features with what I have in mind: https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/welfare/peersupport .
I had not noticed that those aren’t the same, thank you for correcting me! And I agree that applying to it makes a lot more sense than applying to the incubation program.
Yep, and I might still do that, but I suspect what I have in mind isn’t a good fit for the reasons mentioned in the post.
I think resources for family/best friends/employers of mentally ill folks is a neglected space. You have a group of people who are extremely incentivised to help (maybe employers less so), have the opportunity for a high marginal impact, but who in my experience usually have no idea what they’re doing.
I’m also attracted to potential knock-on benefits from something like this to how mental health is discussed more generally, which I’d currently characterize as at best well-intentioned but pretty poor (and far worse than that in some areas of the world).
Here’s something with a different focus (training a more general ‘first line of defence’ support network at a university), but that shares some features with what I have in mind: https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/welfare/peersupport .
Thanks for the concrete company recommendations!
The career coaching seems different from the incubation program, as far as I can tell your points apply mostly to the latter, right?
I had not noticed that those aren’t the same, thank you for correcting me! And I agree that applying to it makes a lot more sense than applying to the incubation program.