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Life Raft meets for two hours every Monday, 52 weeks a year, in the basement of Memorial Church. "Life threatening illnesses do not follow the academic calendar," Bunn explains...
Students, faculty and staff who are affiliated with Harvard can attend the meetings. At any given time, says Bunn, between 30 and 40 people are participating in Life Raft. But there are usually between eight and 12 people at each meeting. Bunn attends all of the meetings, though she says, "it works best when I say the least...
...meetings are informal, Bunn says. "I often don't know someone's last name. One of the important things is that no one has a time commitment. They come for 20 minutes or two hours. They come for a year or for two months or for as long as they want...
...funding from the University, says Nadja Gould, the group's clinical supervisor and a UHS social worker. There are pamphlets about Life Raft in all of the Network offices as well as at the offices of Harvard's other counseling groups, such as Room 13 and Response. Bunn has written letters to senior tutors to tell them about the program and The Harvard Gazette announces the meetings each week. Reisz says, however, that "you can never publicize enough...
...Bunn says that she can see the beneficial effects of Life Raft on the participants. "Over the past three years I have seen some people get healthy again. They go through these losses and can grow and change." She says she occasionally receives letters from former participants who have "moved...