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The #SpeakYourMIND Ice Bucket Challenge: Raising Half a Million for Mental Health Awareness

Active Minds

But all these years later, the Ice Bucket Challenge is back, reimagined by the University of South Carolina’s MIND club to support mental health awareness. The response has been absolutely incredible, with tens of thousands joining in support of mental health awareness. Consider this your call to join us!

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, in 2014 former President Obama launched the My Brothers Keeper program which encouraged the country to examine and dismantle various obstacles to Black male success. As a result, the United States can only remain an economic superpower if it provides innovative ways to help Black males navigate seen and unseen barriers.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, according to Getty (2014), new police officers also require real-world experience to reinforce academy education and training. Surprisingly, understanding behavioral health needs and communication was identified, but sparsely. Articulate cultural competence education and training requirements for law enforcement leadership.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. One of Breakthrough Central Texas’s goals is to prove the significance of state and federal investments in resources – for matters such as college advising, mental health services, emergency assistance, immigration aid, and other student needs, Griffith says. “If

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A Call to Action: Higher Education Must Implement Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

News survey revealed that 70% of 3,649 students struggled with mental health since starting college. Mental health is synonymous with psychological wellness, a multidimensional construct involving satisfaction and balance among mind, body, and spirit (Myers & Sweeney, 2005). A recent U.S. Dance (e.g.,

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Tell us about your experiences with the Maryland College Alcohol Survey

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

On February 26, 2024, a sample of all Hopkins undergraduate students will receive an email from Maryland College Survey with a link to an anonymous, confidential survey about alcohol, substances, mental health, and other related topics. Aside from alcohol and substance use, the survey asks about mental health and other related topics.

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Navigating the Path to Student Success Through Essential Guidance and Support

Timely MD

In 2014, the position was elevated to Associate Vice President for Student Success in Academic Affairs. Mental health remains their most common challenge by far (60%), followed by financial (43%), physical health (37%), academic (36%), social / belonging (27%), career readiness (20%) and basic needs insecurity (16%).