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Help Yourself Campaign @ the UNT Libraries

Students can face many challenges and situations while in college. We can help you help yourself. Guide created and maintained by Brea Henson.

Alignment with UNT and UNT Libraries

President Keller will announce the 2025 Strategic Goals in November 2025.

To see current UNT Strategic Goals, visit Academic Affairs 2020-2025 Strategic Priorities.

UNT Values

UNT Values

  1. Courageous Integrity: The HYC aims "to build [a] trust[ing]" and compassionate network between students, the UNT Libraries, UNT campus student support offices, and local communities "through consistent actions that are honest, transparent, and authentic," at times requiring vulnerability and emotional labor.
  2. Be Curious: The HYC encourages students to "engage in new experiences for learning and growth" around their holistic wellness.
  3. We Care: The HYC's outreach and praxis is informed by evidence-based mindfulness principles, trauma-infomred approaches to librarianship, the pedagogy of kindness, and "Whole Person"/"Whole Student"/"Whole University" praxis used in librarianship and social work. The HYC seeks to "cultivate authentic connections [with campus student support offices] that have a meaningful impact" on students. The HYC "share expertise and resources" from campus student support offices and librarians in order to "contribut[e]" to student success and wellbeing. The HYC hopes to "help at least one person every day" through direct and indirect engagement and outreach. 
  4. Better Together: The HYC provides access to information that supports "an inclusive environment of respect, belonging, and access for all" students at UNT. 
  5. Show Your Fire: The HYC Coordinator, Brea Henson, aims to "be prepared, be present, and actively participate" in discussions with students and campus support offices about their wellness needs, provide "enthusiastic engagement" in face-to-face interactions, and recommend helpful HYC resources. 

President Keller's Student Succes Intiative

Student Success Initiative

  1. Proactive and Holistic Care: The HYC Coordinator works with support and success offices, local offices, and organizations to connect students proactively to the resources and people who can help them. Through intentional tabling, collaborative events, strategic purchases, referrals, and access to information on the HYC guide, the HYC Coordinator and HYC partnering student support and success offices are part of the holistic care network at UNT. We aim to meet the unique needs of each student we serve.
  2. Proactive and Holistic Care: The philosophy behind the Help Yourself Campaign is that if students are not holistically well, they cannot succeed in their coursework and may not achieve academic success. The topics of the HYC were identified as areas that students can struggle to find reliable information about, discuss with their personal support networks, ask for professional help on, and locate people who can provide professional help. 
  3. Proactive and Holistic Care: UNT Libraries understand it can take time before students feel comfortable or ready to talk to a person for help. UNT Libraries aims to help students help themselves by providing bibliotherapy resources and contact information for student support and success offices when students are ready for personal help in their care and healing journeys.  
  4. Proactive and Holistic Care: All work to provide HYC is trauma-informed and backed by research and praxis in trauma-informed librarianship, whole-person librarianship, whole-student librarianship, whole-university librarianship, and social services in academic libraries.

UNT Wellness

UNT Wellness

The HYC aims to support the "physical, social, emotional, environmental, intellectual, occupational, creative, financial, [and] spiritual" wellness for UNT Students by providing access to educational information, bibliotherapeutic resources, contact information for specialists in providing care, and compassionate collaborations.

UNT Libraries' Stratgic Goals

New UNT Library Strategic Goals Pending

To see the current UNT Libraries' Strategic Directions, visit Strategic Directions.

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