{"id":51100,"date":"2023-05-22T12:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=51100"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:40:59","slug":"in-service-to-his-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/in-service-to-his-community\/","title":{"rendered":"In Service to His Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Bredell Moody has been helping others since he was a boy.<\/p>\n\n\n
He and his sister spent summers with their grandmother in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, where they packed bags of food to hand out to people at a crisis center in Bladen County. Their grandmother hosted fish fries where everyone was welcome to grab a plate, whether she knew them or not.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cShe instilled service to the community early,\u201d Moody says. <\/p>\n\n\n
He has continued that legacy of service at NC State. Moody is the embedded counselor for the Wilson College of Textiles and the Graduate School. He graduated this month from the College of Education with a doctorate in counseling and counselor education that opens the door for him to train others to help people as well.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cTo me,\u201d he says, \u201cclinical mental health counseling has just always been how I can be of service to my community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
Moody\u2019s journey at NC State began in 2017 when he joined the Counseling Center as an academic counselor tasked with helping students who wanted to drop courses or withdraw from the university completely. He talked to students about their options and potential effects on their academic progress and financial aid. He also talked to students about how these decisions affected them personally.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cWhat does all this mean emotionally? Mentally? What does this mean if you have to have these difficult conversations back at home with your parents? It was all of it: helping students navigate their journey academically while also holding space for who they were outside of the student role,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n
When the spring 2018 semester arrived, Moody asked the leaders at the Counseling Center if he could broaden his responsibilities to hold one-on-one sessions with students, run workshops and help with triage counseling. He had the qualifications; he already held a master\u2019s degree in clinical mental health counseling from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. The center agreed, and he became a triage counselor.<\/p>\n\n\n
Triage counselors read forms filled out by students and determine their level of risk. Routine follow-up questions include how the student is performing academically, whether they\u2019re getting enough sleep and how well they\u2019re eating. Counselors might also ask about any recent trauma or suicidal thoughts. They then determine what resources are available through the Counseling Center. Students at risk to themselves or others are seen as quickly as possible. Counselors can also connect students to resources elsewhere on campus, such as Pack Essentials or the LGBTQ Pride Center.<\/p>\n\n\n
The Counseling Center also provides workshops and groups for students. Workshops encompass multiple sessions over about three weeks and cover topics such as anxiety, depression and mindfulness. Groups meet on a regular basis and can last a whole semester. Moody has been involved with two groups: one for Black men known as the Shop and another called Come as You Are that focused on addictive behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a sense of being affirmed as a student and as a human: \u2018I\u2019m not in this alone; other people are struggling as well,\u2019\u201d Moody says. \u201cThey\u2019re talking about their subjective experiences while offering their own coping strategies. There are resources that are being passed down through each person\u2019s narrative that come with the community aspects of those workshops.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n