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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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The Importance of LGBTQ+ Rights in Mental Health Culture

Active Minds

In the spirit of this celebration, we’re taking a stand against book bans and the attacks on transgender students, reinforcing our unwavering support for the rights of our LGBTQ+ youth and young adults and working to safeguard their mental health in every way we can.

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Navigating Mental Health with Art Therapy: Surviving Big Feelings

Active Minds

What happens when you link creative art therapy with a revolutionary treatment that helps people navigate their mental health? In the wake of the release of her first book, Alyse reconnected with Active Minds’ founder Alison Malmon on Instagram Live to discuss the book’s release. Check the Facts” will help you find out.

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Gen Z Shares How to Support Mental Health Policy

Active Minds

At Active Minds, we believe policy is key to enacting lasting mental health change – and students play a huge role in facilitating this change. As you begin to familiarize yourself with these policies, you may wonder: how can you influence the public conversation and get involved with mental health advocacy?

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New Research on BIPOC Mental Health Debuted at Active Minds Conference

Active Minds

Our Emerging Scholars Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation, allows young adults nationwide to expand the research and discourse surrounding BIPOC mental health through an antiracism lens. Name: Brianna A. Baker is a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University.

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The Impact of Practicing Gratitude on Mental Health

Active Minds

However, we don’t pay half the attention when it comes to our mental health. After all, it’s just as important for us to focus on our mental health as it is our physical health. Mental health was a topic that wasn’t acknowledged or normalized in my family and Asian culture.

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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 gave myself a 100-book challenge for 2023. I am excited because I have been able to pick up and have been given so many physical books and created a little library. Where are you from?