Through the maze of halls of the SBCC east campus administration building, excited voices tumbled out of the office of the student newspaper, The Channels. It wasn’t the typical buzz of a newsroom; on Wednesday afternoon, students, faculty, and friends gathered for a one day exhibition of The Becoming Experience: Student Photography Exhibition.
Photographed by SBCC Alum Lucia Kiel, the exhibition featured more than 30 portraits of 11 SBCC students, who had been nominated by their peers and mentors for “what they have all gone through, their strength, and their sense of purpose and joy,” said Becky Bean, social worker and student program advisor with The Well.
The Well is the first free-standing health and mental wellness center of the 116 California community colleges, and it has proven to be a model for preventative and holistic health services for other educational institutions. Each semester, the center hosts around 50 individual programming events for students including workshops, group counseling, and skill building groups. Bean said, “We're small but mighty.”
