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How Active Minds’ Interns Champion Mental Health

Active Minds

We are so excited to work with this wonderful group of students in advancing our mission of changing the culture around mental health. I’m most looking forward to developing my skills and expanding my knowledge of nonprofit work and the mental health field to prepare myself more for the workforce. Where are you from?

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum. UConn Hartford’s Asian American student population comprises 17% of all students on the campus, according to UConn.

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Renewed Push Apace to Return Native American Remains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These stark shortcomings – in the face of NAGPRA and California’s 2001 CalNAGPRA – have been the topic of more than one state audit and report in recent years. Beasley is associate director of cultural resources, partnerships, and science for the National Park Service (NPS).

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The political landscape that’s targeting LGBTQ people is taking a toll on young people’s mental health, especially right now with the Supreme Court decisions and DEI efforts being removed or educational institutions being pressured by their state governments,” says Jorge Valencia, executive director of the Point Foundation.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum. UConn Hartford’s Asian American student population comprises 17% of all students on the campus, according to UConn.

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Understanding School Refusal Behavior

Thrive Alliance Group

The literature (Kearney and Silverman, 1996, Silverman and Kurtines 1996, and Kearney, 2001) identifies SRB as self-corrective when a student’s initial absenteeism remits spontaneously within two weeks. Chronic SRB causes significant disruption to the family and can severely hamper a student’s social, emotional, and academic progress.

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“A Million Miles Away” watch party with José Hernández

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Hamm The Amazon Original film “A Million Miles Away” is an inspiring true story based on the life of TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Student Support Services alumnus, 2001 National TRIO Achiever Award recipient, and author José Hernández , the first migrant farmworker to become an American astronaut.