Responsible
university
Such a university is trying to reach out and make a connection with various experiences and needs of its students, also those in or after mental health crises. There is a special bond between such a university and its graduates, regardless of where they work at a later stage or what kind of life they choose for themselves.
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Disability
awareness
In our daily actions and decisions taken as part of our duties, one may or may not pay attention to the needs of people with disabilities. Each single of us carries a bit of their own responsibility for improving their living, working or education-related conditions. Likewise, persons with disabilities themselves carry their bit of that responsibility, too.
The level of development in societies may be measured by the level of awareness of specific needs stemming from disability.
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European
experience
Our programme is based on the knowledge compiled throughout the decade of the operation of the Jagiellonian University Disability Support Service and a variety of experiences gained at various European academic centres.
We would like that capital to serve to build a climate of openness and tolerance towards, as well as understanding of, problems faced with persons with disabilities, in particular those with mental health difficulties.
Mental health
difficulties
The very term mental illness sounds like a sentence dooming one to rejection, loneliness and suffering. This is often the case indeed. However, combating the condition and its consequences also brings us strength and positive changes in our self-esteem. When affected, we can set off on an individual path towards the truth, freedom and acceptance of oneself as a Human Being.
Support programme
The educational support programme for Jagiellonian University students with mental health difficulties is a novelty for Polish schools of higher education. The programme seeks to develop an effective support system for that target group. On the one hand, the programme seeks to support specific students, and on the other to combat the taboo surrounding mental health conditions in the student community.
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Educational support
It covers services involving adaptations of teaching materials, counselling and adjusting the way how classes are organised to the students’ individual needs. This aims at ensuring that persons with disabilities enjoy equal access to the standard educational offer of the Jagiellonian University.
Jagiellonian
University Disability
Support Service
The Service provides Jagiellonian University students with disabilities with educational support which minimises limitations stemming from disability. It is one of the most comprehensive educational support offers in Poland, based on European standards.
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Hidden
discrimination
Covert discrimination takes place when we sense it is inappropriate to publicly reveal our views which are generally considered discriminatory, yet in practice we follow them. In Poland, hidden discrimination concerns disability very much, although in the case of mental health difficulties discrimination is very often open. That is why there is still so much to do in this area.
University students
Being a university student means tasting life, maturing, but also learning to be responsible for oneself and others. A lot of maturity and responsibility is needed indeed to respect each budding individual identity, attend to it with care when it is in pain, extend a helping hand. Such situations are true maturity exams, and at times the life of a fellow man depends on maturity.
Leo
As a brave animal, the lion has become the representation of our programme. In Poland, one must be very courageous to openly talk about mental illness. Even more courage is needed to talk to others about one’s own condition.
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