One group on campus has students helping each other deal with depression.

“Group Hope,” organized a year ago by six students in the business college, is a support group organized to help students with depression and bipolar disorder.

The students organized a plan last year to market public awareness of this support group, volunteering their time with facility advisers to finish the project.

“Hopefully with the brochures and the marketing plan the ELC [Experiential Learning Center] team created last year will help the Group Hope chapter in DeKalb continue to build awareness, and the support groups will grow,” said Jane Mall, director of ELC and corporate relations.

Charles Smith, the group’s adviser, said the group is a good place for students to share each other’s experiences and help each other through difficult times.

“[Students can] talk to each other for comfort and understanding,” Smith said.

Though meetings have not begun yet, Smith hopes to relocated the meetings from last year’s location in the Women’s Center to the Holmes Student Center this year, and also for the people of Sycamore and DeKalb to hold meetings in another location outside of campus, such as a church.