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Simple Ways to Bring Mental Health Conversations to Your School This Year

Active Minds

For many of us, mental health has become intertwined into our everyday conversations — chatting with our friends about daily stressors, reading social media posts about managing anxiety, and meeting with a therapist when things feel out of control. Book a live training session today! The good news?

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Research Reveals Ways to Improve Mental Health Support for First-Generation Students

COE

Research Reveals Ways to Improve Mental Health Support for First-Generation Students April 11, 2023 — by Holly Hexter Colleges can do more to help first-generation students address mental health challenges as they transition to campus life, an Ohio State University researcher says. Sergeev emigrated to the U.S.

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A Note to Your Principal About National School Counseling Week

Counselors' Corner

Tuesday—Mental Health Counseling Wednesday—Academic Counseling Thursday—Other Personal Counseling Friday—College and Career Counseling Daily events To support each theme of the day, we’d like you to include a brief morning announcement that describes that particular part of the counseling curriculum. We’re also bringing snacks.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

teachers, school board members, superintendents, principals) and policy makers to see, appreciate, and honor the cultural capital that students of color bring to education, counseling, and mental health services. Counseling & mental health. b. Special education over-referrals and overrepresentation.

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Natural Allies: How Diversity Leaders and Community Engagement Leaders Build Democracy Together

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The challenges in our communities are vast and urgently need addressing—growing wealth gaps, gun violence, food insecurity, climate change, mental health crises, and the list goes on and higher education must act. We must unite across our campuses and communities to forge a path toward a just and equitable future.

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A Clarion Call for Change: Four Black Scholars Reflect on the Critical Need for More Educators of Color

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She often played music by Bob Marley, and we read poetry books by Shel Silverstein (i.e., I responded to the challenge and read the book. In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness. and Rosa Parks. A Light in the Attic, Falling Up ).

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re one of the few rural schools in Colorado that actually has a full-time licensed mental health professional,” Alvarez said. Through the college’s Student Equity and Achievement Program, Alvarez oversaw Otero’s redesign of classrooms, curriculum and teaching practices to make learning more inviting and inclusive.

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