Minority Mental Health Month

**This post is in collaboration with Durham Tech Counseling Services.**

July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and while the month is almost over, many of these resources are available all year round both through Durham Tech and through outside agencies. 

National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month / Mes Nacional de Concientización Sobre la Salud Mental de las Minorías

Are you a Durham Tech student looking for a safe space to discuss anxiety and other issues due to Covid-19? Have your heard about Let’s Cope?

The Let’s Cope group, hosted by LaKe’a Teel and Letoria Brown, is a support group for Durham Tech students that meets virtually over Microsoft Teams twice a week. They discuss specific topics, coping strategies, and share their experiences. This year has been tough (an understatement), and it looks like things will stay tough into the fall semester.

If you’re a student, please consider joining the group if and when you need to. If you are faculty or staff, direct students to the group whenever possible. We all need a support system to deal with things both big and small, from a global pandemic to help concentrating on schoolwork.

Information on previously covered topics can be found on the Counseling Services page, and many more topics are scheduled for the upcoming semester. 

Click here for more resources

What We’re Reading: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games novel, #0 in the series [a prequel]) by Suzanne Collins

Title: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Author: Suzanne Collins
Genre: prequel; science fiction; dystopia
Read Great Things 2020 Categories: A book that is part of a series; A bildungsroman; A controversial book; and A book suggested by a Durham Tech Librarian

This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian. 


If you liked the original Hunger Games trilogy, you’ll probably enjoy or appreciate this. If you’re like me, you may need to re-read the other books, but I read this book and then re-read the series afterwards, pausing in the third book because everyone knows if you don’t keep reading, then the bad thing you know is going to happen totally won’t happen, right? (Spoiler: It still happened. Double spoiler: The series is about a society that pits its children against each other TO THE DEATH to control rebellion. Bad things happen in all. three. books.)

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We All Scream For Ice Cream

It’s hot, y’all. 

It’s hot and humid and sticky and gross. This is that part of a North Carolina summer my relatives in Pennsylvania tell me is inhumane. (The joke is on them when they get snow in November though.)

Sometimes, when the sun seems angry at you personally and the world feels like it’s falling apart (see: pandemic, police brutality, climate change, the 24-hour news cycle), there’s nothing better than some ice cream to cool off and coat your insides with delicious sugar (or dairy-free with sugar substitute– do you). Want to surround yourself with ice cream history and recipes? The library can help with that. 

click here for ice cream recipes and more!

What We’re Reading: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

 This book was read by Julie Humphrey, Library Director.

Title: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Author: Bryan Stevenson
Genre: nonfiction, memoir
Read Great Things 2020 Categories: A book about civic engagement; A book that has won an award, and A book suggested by a Durham Tech Librarian

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