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Webinar: Mental Health Equity on Campuses Requires More Extensive Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Shawnté Elbert , chief health equity officer at Columbus Public Health. All in all, the issues calls for systemic change, they said.

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More Students Are Having Mental Health Problems, But More Are Asking for Help

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a disheartening finding from the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), which conducts an annual online survey of nearly 96,000 college students on 133 American campuses that was released last Friday. The increase in therapy and counseling may simply be because more students are having mental health problems.

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Three Actions You Can Take to Support BIPOC Mental Health

Active Minds

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. There is a deep stigma that exists in BIPOC communities toward mental illness.

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Supporting LGBTQ+ Students as they Work to Achieve Professional and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

COVID-19 has had an alarming impact on the mental health of college students. The increase, the Trevor Project suggests , stems from not only from the negative impact of COVID-19, but other risk factors like barriers to mental health care and a wave of new state policies affecting LGBTQ+ rights.

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HEER Funding Kept Community Colleges Open and Students Enrolled

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What I think was really brilliant about the way the community colleges used the resources was they put students first,” said Dr. Karen A. Now, we’re back to this under-resourced status. In California, we also wanted to know, moving forward, what share of [the community college’s] courses do they expect to be online. Dr. Karen A.

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NASPA Survey Reveals Further Declines in Campus Mental Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past decade, campus mental health has bloomed into a crisis, with rates of depression and anxiety symptoms more than doubling. The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the problem, with over 60% of college students meeting the criteria for at least one mental health issue in the 2020-21 school year.

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Celebrating the Past, Mobilizing the Future: 20 Years of Active Minds

Active Minds

We inherited the Active Minds Speakers Bureau in 2010 from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign and have proudly brought speakers to more than 1,000,000 youth and adult audiences in the years since. We are proud to be your resource for mental health programming, research, connections, and evidence-backed tools.