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Active Minds’ 2023 Emerging Scholars Break Down Mental Health Barriers

Active Minds

This fellowship gives Black, Indigenous, and students of Color (BIPOC) students the opportunity to be mentored by national experts in the mental health field as they complete independent, funded research projects. Jadon’s project will explore the mental health of BIPOC individuals who are first-generation college students.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. The peer mentors are recruited from UCLA’s undergraduate student body and are usually former participants in AAP. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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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. We know that there are certain issues that we want to tackle in the mentoring program.

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Mental Health Peer-to-Peer Program Training

Timely MD

These programs are designed to arm students with the knowledge and skills necessary to support student mental health on college and university campuses. The components of peer-to-peer program training There is not a one-size-fits-all approach to care for students with mental health conditions. Talk to TimelyMD.

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Comfortable Conversations: Creating Safe Spaces for Difficult Topics

Timely MD

By fostering strong relationships, recognizing warning signs, and utilizing available resources, we can create a supportive environment that promotes mental health and safety. Creating a strong support system – A preventative approach Healthy relationships are a crucial component of mental health.

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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. We know that there are certain issues that we want to tackle in the mentoring program.

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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. Locust and a third-party mediator held listening sessions and facilitated the fellows’ efforts to process their feelings and sort out their group dynamics.