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WHAT IS FRESH CHECK DAY?

Fresh Check Day, the signature program of the Jordan Porco Foundation, is an uplifting mental health promotion and suicide prevention event for colleges that includes interactive expo booths, peer-to-peer messaging, support of multiple campus departments and groups, free food, entertainment, and exciting prizes and giveaways. Fresh Check Day aims to create an approachable and hopeful atmosphere where students are encouraged to engage in dialogue about mental health and helps to build a bridge between students and the mental health resources available on campus, in the community, and nationally.

Future Fresh Check Day information for Fairfield University is not yet available. We will update this page when details emerge so be sure to check back soon!

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Click here to learn about what counseling services are available at Fairfield or call 203-254-4000 x 2146.

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 or text ‘HOME’ to 741741 from anywhere in the USA, any time, about any type of crisis.

If you are a young person of color who is feeling stressed, depressed, and/or anxious; please know you can text ‘STEVE’ to 741741 to connect to a trained crisis counselor 24/7.

If you are a young person in the LGBTQ+ community and are feeling stressed, depressed, and/or anxious; please call 1-866-488-7386 or text ‘START’ to 678-678.

 Testimonials

Want to be featured on this website? Send YOUR Fresh Check Day testimonial to: info@rememberingjordan.org

PAST EVENTS

2024 Fresh Check Day

February 07, 2024

2023 Fresh Check Day

January 25, 2023

2016 Fresh Check Day

September 28, 2016

2015 Fresh Check Day

September 30, 2015

Check out photos of the event!

 2014 Fresh Check Day

September 17, 2014

Check out photos from the event!

Using a peer-to-peer messaging model, Fresh Check Day utilizes student groups in addition to college/university staff to develop and execute interactive booths that deliver mental health and resource information in a fun and engaging way. Booth messaging reflects a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention with topics areas including specific mental health issues, high risk populations, stigma reduction, and positive coping and life skills.

In order to ensure successful implementation and continued campus mental health and suicide prevention initiatives, Fresh Check Day thrives on full endorsement and support from higher level administration. By engaging the entire college community in this campus-wide movement, students are reminded that they are not alone and that their mental health is valued just as much as their physical health or their academic standing.

The Jordan Porco Foundation (JPF) does not charge a fee for service for Fresh Check Day in consideration of varying capacities to fund large-scale mental health programming. Instead, JPF provides significant supports and asks participating schools to provide the remaining essential components within their budgetary means, including the personnel resources to plan and implement the event.

FRESH CHECK DAY AND THE BEST PRACTICE APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION

In keeping with Best Practice standards, Fresh Check Day engages in as many as four areas of the Jed Foundation/SPRC’s Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion: it promotes social connectedness, develops life skills, increases help-seeking behavior, and potentially identifies students at risk.