About Us
 

Our 2016 - 2017 Project will be announced shortly. 

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Our 2015 - 2016 Project: Facing Mental Health at UCLA, an affiliate of the Facing Project, is a student-run collaboration between the national umbrella Facing Project nonprofit organization and ASUCLA's own undergraduate, student-run Community Service Commission. The Facing Project connects people through stories to strengthen communities. 
 

UCLA's model enlists a team of writers to be paired one-on-one with students who have come forward to share their story to better educate the community around them. After their pairing staff writers and storytellers together meet on regular basis, getting to know each other, and building on each other's strengths and weaknesses. This relationship allows staff writers to form the significant bonds that enable the writers to take on the first-person voice as narrators of the anonymous creative nonfiction pieces as if they were the storyteller thmselves . Through these student-told stories, the project aims to convey and explore what students have done and overcome to get to where they are today.

 

At the end of each year, the project will culminate into a published book, distributed among the community, comprised of all the various written stories. Facing Project, both the larger organization and its UCLA branch, hopes that sharing such stories will help spread awareness about various issues to unify communities and promote discussion to help inspire social change.

 

 

Facing Project Themes by Year

 

2015 - 2016: Facing Mental Health

2014 - 2015: Facing Access to Higher Education