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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025

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Juky Chen The City College of New York Project: DreaMHealth: Elevating the Voices of Undocumented Students Juky Chen is a junior at The City College of New York, majoring in Business Administration. pursuing a Bachelors degree in Psychology with minors in Business Administration and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025 Copy

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Juky Chen The City College of New York Project: DreaMHealth: Elevating the Voices of Undocumented Students Juky Chen is a junior at The City College of New York, majoring in Business Administration. pursuing a Bachelors degree in Psychology with minors in Business Administration and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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What Should Schools Prioritize to Support Youth Mental Health? Priority #1: Provide More Specialized Mental Health Professionals and Paraprofessionals on Campus

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In the 2023-24 school year, 84% of public school administrators across the country reported that their school staff provided students with individualized mental health services ( National Center for Educational Statistics, 2024 ). Who is considered specialized mental health staff?

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Addressing Disordered Eating on College Campuses

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Other students have also suffered from the current setup of dining halls in colleges nationwide, and are offering solutions to administrations on how they can better support the variety of food-related needs that exist on college campuses. It felt like no one else was experiencing what I was — now, I know that isn’t true.

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Many New Jersey Colleges Eligible to Apply for Mental Health Services Funding from State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I believe every school, hospital and private therapist out there did [see an uptick]. Phil Murphy’s administration. State agencies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke of a mental health emergency among youth and schoolchildren in 2020, citing steadily rising rates of suicide from 2010-2020. “I

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Three Tips for Navigating School with Mental Health-Related Disabilities

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A primary care doctor or therapist may have more knowledge about your options and what solution would be best suited for you. From there, they can best direct you to an administrator that can guide you through the process. Knowing yourself and your options is important for your mental health and educational success.

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. And the thing that impressed me so much about Jamie was, he got it immediately.”