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Harmonizing Wellness: Music Therapy Tips for Mental Health

Active Minds

In the symphony of life, mental health often plays a leading role. It is important to explore the therapeutic benefits of music and offer practical tips on incorporating it into your mental health regimen. In the orchestra of life, music therapy is a powerful instrument for promoting mental health and well-being.

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Simple Ways to Bring Mental Health Conversations to Your School This Year

Active Minds

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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Mental Health Care Is Expensive: A Guide to Finding Affordable Services

Active Minds

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Several New Jersey public colleges and research universities can apply for mental health services funding from the state, NorthJersey.com reported. The funds will come from the $15 million allocated for mental health services by the state. Phil Murphy This comes amid rising suicide and depression among students.

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Making Space for Mental Health at Your Community College

Active Minds

Like many of us, I was eager to learn and grow but realized that the pressures of academia can sometimes take a toll on our mental health. Creating an Active Minds Chapter at my community college has allowed me to facilitate these conversations about mental health where they didn’t exist before.

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Three Tips for Navigating School with Mental Health-Related Disabilities

Active Minds

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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Meet Taylor Ricciardi, Therapist

Thrive Alliance Group

Read more about Taylor Ricciardi, Therapist, and how much she enjoys seeing her students grow and flourish. I would like to continue to work in the schools and try and create more mental health programs for kids within the system. The post Meet Taylor Ricciardi, Therapist appeared first on Thrive Alliance Group.