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Heading Out on College Tours this Summer? Here Are Five Questions To Ask For Your Mental Health

Throughout my college admissions process, I considered several factors when choosing a college: campus life, program opportunities, rank, location, class size, cost, and sports to name a few. While some of these elements would undoubtedly affect my mental health, I never directly questioned how my mental health would fit into the schools I was visiting,...

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Active Minds Programs & Campaigns

Every Generation Benefits When We Talk About Mental Health – Here’s How to Start:

International Youth Day is celebrated annually on August 12 to bring youth and young adult issues to the international community’s attention. This day gives an opportunity to celebrate and amplify young people’s voices, actions, and social justice initiatives, as well as their meaningful, universal and equitable engagement. This year’s theme is intergenerational solidarity, which emphasizes…

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What You Can Gain from Our Newly Structured Student Advisory Committee

For years, the Active Minds Student Advisory Committee (SAC) has been a staple of the work students nationwide are doing in collaboration with Active Minds national staff around mental health. I’m beginning my second year on the SAC, and am honored to serve this year as its president as we continue to think of new…

Advocacy & Awareness

Bachelor Clayton Echard Talks Cyberbullying, Men’s Mental Health, and More with Alison Malmon

Body dysmorphia, bullying, loss of identity. These important topics, among others, were discussed candidly and powerfully in an Instagram Live conversation between Active Minds’ founder and executive director Alison Malmon and the 2022 Bachelor Clayton Echard. View the full conversation here, and read below for our takeaways from this important discussion:  Our words have power….

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Advocacy & Awareness

Yes, And: Reflecting on 988

When I first learned about 988, the new three-digit number for mental health crises, I immediately thought of Keller Zibilich. Keller tragically lost his life to suicide as a second-semester Sigma Chi freshman at LSU after making five desperate and unsuccessful calls for help to local hospitals. His parents, Michael and Gayle, are certain that…

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Active Minds Programs & Campaigns

My Experience as an Emerging Scholar: BIPOC Veterans and Mental Health

As a child growing up in India, I always considered my family my number one support system. I never realized that I needed more than they were capable of providing until I was in crisis.  My mental health became increasingly complicated as I entered my teenage years. I realized then that I did not have…

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