Active Minds

JANUARY 10, 2024

In 2020, the Arizona State Legislature passed Jake’s Law , a multi-faceted piece of legislation aimed at increasing access to behavioral health services (including mental healthcare) in schools, improving mental health parity in health insurance, and reevaluating the state of youth mental health in the state of Arizona.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Petersburg College in Florida has launched a new Applied Mental Health Certificate for Law Enforcement Program to equip law enforcement professionals and first responders with essential tools to navigate mental health issues within the community while managing the inherent stressors of their roles.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The constant barrage of political narratives, whether in debates, news outlets, social media, or even around the dinner table, can take a significant toll on your mental health. Use your vote to support mental health legislation : Vote early, in person on November 5th, or by mail.

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Active Minds

MARCH 11, 2024

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship, generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macy’s , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

American Education Week provides a crucial opportunity to shed light on an issue that continues to be ignored: the need to support the mental health of both students and educators. The American education system needs to be full of mental health champions. And it can be.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and its Institute for Capacity Building explore the state of mental health on Black college campuses in a new report. Julian Thompson “ From Awareness to Action: The Imperative for Enhanced Mental Health Support at HBCUs ” highlights five key insights. The first is that 1.) As such, 4.)

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. The good news?

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As we adjust to a new routine and, at times, a new environment around the holidays, it can also be difficult to navigate the mental health challenges we may be facing or bringing back home with us. These mental health conversations with family can often be met with silence, discomfort, or even misunderstanding.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I was fourteen years old when I was introduced to the space of mental health advocacy. Without this psychoeducational and stigma-reducing program, I would have never pursued professional help for my own mental health or a professional career in mental health.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Solomon knows youth mental health is increasingly at risk, and showcases how establishing an Active Minds chapter at his school helped him efficiently run important programming and reach students across an entire district. Hurry, the paywall goes back up after December 2nd, 2024!

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Active Minds

APRIL 1, 2024

Spring cleaning can be a powerful tool for enhancing our mental health and clarity, fostering emotional well-being, and cultivating a sense of rejuvenation. Let’s delve into how the act of tidying up our minds and surroundings can have profound effects on our mental health.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The mission of Active Minds is centered around mobilizing youth and young adults to be the mental health change in their schools and communities. While truly redefining accessible mental health will take massive shifts in public policy, there are still ways to find support that won’t break your budget.

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Active Minds

MARCH 4, 2024

The Active Minds Mental Health Conference is unlike any other. As a result of my time at the Conference, I have had many opportunities and abilities to use my voice for change through networking with other mental health leaders. I found community in my peers who shared my values. And most importantly, have fun.

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Active Minds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Active Minds Mental Health Advocacy (Academy) is a leadership development and mental health advocacy program that equips BIPOC and LGBTQ+ high school students to address mental health-related issues and affect change in their schools, communities, and states. by MTV and work with Mental Health America.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Vote Early Day, a national movement created in 2020, is a chance for you to take action on important mental health initiatives and become an active member of our political process. These elections hold equal, if not greater, importance, as they determine how laws are enacted, especially in areas like mental health.

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Active Minds

MARCH 16, 2023

“You can’t afford to not pay attention to what’s going on with student mental health.” That sentiment has inspired Active Minds’ work for nearly two decades, including the recent release of our report “Lessons from Black Colleges on Mental Health and Wellbeing.”

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Active Minds

MARCH 26, 2024

With feelings of persistent sadness and anxiety at an all-time high for teen girls in what has been identified as a crisis , girls’ mental health has never been important to discuss and understand. This data implores us to consider what the contributing factors are to this mental health epidemic teen girls are facing.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It’s no surprise that school counselors play an important role in supporting student mental health, well-being, and academic success in K-12 schools. They are making a difference in the daily lives of our K-12 students and changing the conversation about mental health in their schools.

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Active Minds

JULY 28, 2023

Being Asian and Filipino, it was so challenging to talk about my mental health, particularly due to the stigma in my family and community. This kept me from exploring mental health issues and even dealing with my own. This prompted me to write a dissertation on language use and mental health for my Ph.D.

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Active Minds

MAY 1, 2023

First, we needed to open up the conversation about mental health — stigma was incredibly pervasive, and far too many people were struggling in silence. That’s why, for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Month, Active Minds is working directly with Gen Z. passionate about creating lasting mental health change, and c.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. Kimbrough , Interim Executive Director for BMRI, wants the symposium to dive deeply into mental health and how it affects Black men and their communities.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Addressing racial inequality is one of the key components of this effort to ensure marginalized communities have access to the same opportunities and resources as others and recognize the unique challenges faced by different marginalized groups, especially when it comes to mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

When it comes to improving mental health equity on college campuses, more work just needs to be done, mental health experts said during a webinar Wednesday. Then, we can start to address equity from that lens," said Dr. Shawnté Elbert , chief health equity officer at Columbus Public Health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The University of Notre Dame has brought together a coalition of benefactors, foundations, and other funders who have committed more than $68 million to address mental health and expand access to care. Dr. John T. McGreevy, Notre Dame’s Charles and Jill Fischer Provost.

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Active Minds

APRIL 4, 2023

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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Active Minds

MARCH 15, 2023

We are proud to announce that thanks to their support, we are bringing our proven peer-to-peer mental health model to middle schools nationwide. To kick this exciting announcement off, Active Minds students met with Optum Ambassadors at The Players Championship this weekend to talk about mental health on the golf course.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Still, by understanding how to manage it successfully, we can better navigate our mental health amidst change. The uncertainty that comes with the unknown can cause mental health concerns such as anxiety and depression. Embracing change is not always easy, but it is a crucial step toward improving our mental health.

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Active Minds

JULY 25, 2023

Mental health awareness and access to treatment have grown immensely in the past few decades. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reported that 47.2% adults with mental illness received treatment in 2021. On top of this stigma lies a history of negative mental health care experiences.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I’ll be honest: talking about mental health and Active Minds with Rory McIlroy was not on my 2022 bingo card. Their work is unparalleled – they are young adult-focused and led, and believe strongly in Gen Z’s lived experiences around mental health being a catalyst for change.

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Active Minds

MAY 23, 2024

When I was a freshman in college, I went to a talk on my campus about sharing your mental health story hosted by my Active Minds chapter for Mental Health Awareness Month. At the time, I was a new mental health advocate, someone who had only been diagnosed with OCD two years prior.

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Active Minds

APRIL 20, 2023

What happens when you link creative art therapy with a revolutionary treatment that helps people navigate their mental health? Alyse shared what exactly mental health means to her, the inspiration behind her book, and detailed her experiences working with Active Minds in the past as a former intern and Emerging Scholar!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Latino college students face a unique set of challenges, from food insecurity to mental health crises, yet their aspirations remain remarkably strong,” said Jenny Muñiz, senior policy advisor at UnidosUS.

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Active Minds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In the face of a youth mental health crisis, the urgency for inspiring mental health change has never been more apparent. Murthy has sounded the alarm, highlighting that a youth mental health crisis is already brewing. Undoubtedly, we are in a youth mental health crisis.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The uncertainty of being accepted by our family, friends, school, and more can bring up a lot of emotions and mental health concerns, especially in our transgender and gender non-conforming youth, who are the recent target of political agendas. And you deserve all the love, kindness, and support while doing so.

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Active Minds

JUNE 23, 2023

Back then, mental health wasn’t always openly discussed when I was young, especially for boys and men, due to stigma. Now, as a mental health speaker, I aim to help kids understand themselves and build positive inner relationships. But the most significant thing had to be the stigma of men and mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

More than 80% of college faculty and staff members have noticed increasing demand among online learners for mental health services this past school year, according to a new survey from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and teletherapy company Uwill. It's not why they chose the online education in the first place.”

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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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