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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We plan everything—the schedules, the curricula, the safety drills—but too often, mental health programming gets overlooked. But I quickly learned that when we wait to address mental health issues until they escalate, it’s already too late. As educators and school leaders, we have to prioritize mental health from day one.

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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

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

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Removing barriers for students to use mental health services is one of the most important goals of college administrations today particularly for students of color and diverse backgrounds. Without a doubt, mental health treatment and counseling must be done by professionals. campus is much more than a counseling center.

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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

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

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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Students and an advocacy group are suing Yale University, alleging systemic discrimination against students with mental health disabilities, CNN reported. Monica Porter, attorney with Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, said that Yale’s campus mental health issues were “a particularly egregious example.”

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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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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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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Self-Centeredness vs. Selflessness in Mental Health appeared first on Active Minds. In times when it feels easy to deprioritize yourself in favor of managing everything else going on in our hectic lives, remember that showing up for yourself is just as important as showing up for others. You deserve it. The post Is Self-Care Selfish?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), mental health nonprofit The Steve Fund, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) are partnering for a national initiative to support mental health at Black colleges and universities. The initiative is a response to the declining mental health of U.S. Dr. Michael L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

John Dunkle, senior director of learning and knowledge at the JED Foundation (JED), a non-profit focusing on young adult mental health and suicide prevention. Heinze thought that some portion of the increases could be attributable to better measurement of mental health and a decrease in the stigmatization of mental health problems.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

These inequities have real impacts, including on the mental health of students at school. . The degradation of student mental health due in part to inequities and lack of resources in our school systems has real consequences. And they are asking for: Accurate and accessible information about mental health. .

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Different diagnoses, conditions, and disabilities, both mental health-related and physical, can strain a student’s ability to succeed in an educational setting. Under those two federal laws, mental illnesses that limit one or more major life activities (i.e. Remember you are not alone.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2023

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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Active Minds

MARCH 13, 2023

Are you a high school student looking to become more involved in mental health advocacy in your community? Well, allow me to tell you some amazing news: the Active Minds Mental Health Advocacy Academy is gearing up to take on its next class of mental health advocates!

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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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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

JANUARY 16, 2023

Prior to the creation of the chapter at Morgan State – one of the nation’s historically Black universities (or HBCUs) – there were no student-led organizations dedicated to addressing mental health on campus. The post Your Guide to Creating Mental Health Communities at HBCUs appeared first on Active Minds.

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Active Minds

MARCH 31, 2023

This constant questioning has had a major impact on my mental health, and it has helped me to realize just how crucial support for Transgender people is in helping us to lead long and happy lives. I’ve seen my closeted friends struggle with their mental health due to hiding a key part of who they truly are.

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Active Minds

JANUARY 20, 2023

But let’s be honest: especially when it comes to the impact of bullying on mental health, we know that this is far from true. While not the only factor, self-talk plays a key role in our mental health, and when we suffer from negative self-talk our well-being will deteriorate as well.

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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

MARCH 10, 2023

The relationship between physical and mental health is one that is becoming increasingly apparent — including among top-performing athletes. Here’s what they had to say about mental health, the importance of V-A-R®, and supporting your teammates as student athletes: What role does mental health play in your life as an athlete?

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