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Healing with Send Silence Packing Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
Meet the Interns: A Look Back at Summer and Forward to the Fall Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
All Posts How to Maintain Your Mental Health While Balancing Virtual Learning and the Holidays These are uncertain and anxious times, especially for students. As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, colleges are strongly discouraging students from returning to campus after Thanksgiving break, leaving many to finish the semester at home. The transition from being on campus to being home will not be easy. … Read More Fostering Relationships Between Faculty & Students Through Cultural Competency Training Looking back, when I was a wide-eyed high school student, I had a lot of difficulty choosing which college to go to. That summer, I took a course at Ithaca College that cemented the decision for me. It was called “Communication, Culture, and Rhetoric,” led by a Black professor and… Read More Managing Mental Health on Campus During Covid While walking through Kogan Plaza at George Washington University, there’s a stillness in the early morning coupled with unfamiliar silence. The regular stirring city atmosphere has minimized into a soft hum, with infrequent passing bikers and working professionals. Campus has maintained its looks with hints of buff and blue… Read More How to be There for a Veteran in Your Life As partners to Veterans, we understand the unique role that we all can play in being there to support Veterans’ mental health journeys. Our partners experienced places, conditions, and hardships that we cannot imagine. Their bravery and honor in serving their country is something that we feel immense pride in… Read More The Important Role of Faculty in Mental Health Awareness Quarantine has not been easy for me. I haven’t seen my friends in weeks, my summer plans were all canceled, and the future remains uncertain. There have been days in which I have felt great and those in which I felt down. In the past, I took the social interaction… Read More The Power of Mindfulness & Empathy: Cultural Competency Training for College Students A much-needed spotlight has recently been shone on the systemic racism that has long been embedded in our country, creating disparities and disadvantages for BIPOC communities. Many privileged individuals cannot even begin to imagine the hardships that marginalized and minority groups have faced, nor have they ever taken the time… Read More How to Get Involved In Your Voice is Your Power D’ASIA BURRELL – Co-Writer KAMRYN PRINCE – Co-Writer Active Minds’ Your Voice Is Your Power campaign is a call to action that prioritizes BIPOC student mental health and encourages young adults to use their voices to talk about mental health disparities… Read More Mental Health Doesn’t Have to Be Scary We have come to the end of October, and if you are like me, that means it was Halloween month! The time to binge-watch horror films from the 80s, buy pumpkins to carve, and eat a little more candy than usual. During October, a lot of things should be scary,… Read More How to Build Relationships on Campus with Administrators At the beginning of this semester, Active Minds launched the Your Voice Is Your Power campaign that calls on students and advocates to partner with their campus multicultural affairs offices and student organizations to rally around BIPOC students’ mental health and well-being. In order to make these impactful changes… Read More Coping with Election Stress No matter your political views, this has been a stressful 2020 presidential election season. A recent survey from the American Psychological Association and Harris Poll found that 68% of Americans cite the election as a significant source of stress in their life (compared… Read More 31 / 49
How to Maintain Your Mental Health While Balancing Virtual Learning and the Holidays These are uncertain and anxious times, especially for students. As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, colleges are strongly discouraging students from returning to campus after Thanksgiving break, leaving many to finish the semester at home. The transition from being on campus to being home will not be easy. … Read More
Fostering Relationships Between Faculty & Students Through Cultural Competency Training Looking back, when I was a wide-eyed high school student, I had a lot of difficulty choosing which college to go to. That summer, I took a course at Ithaca College that cemented the decision for me. It was called “Communication, Culture, and Rhetoric,” led by a Black professor and… Read More
Managing Mental Health on Campus During Covid While walking through Kogan Plaza at George Washington University, there’s a stillness in the early morning coupled with unfamiliar silence. The regular stirring city atmosphere has minimized into a soft hum, with infrequent passing bikers and working professionals. Campus has maintained its looks with hints of buff and blue… Read More
How to be There for a Veteran in Your Life As partners to Veterans, we understand the unique role that we all can play in being there to support Veterans’ mental health journeys. Our partners experienced places, conditions, and hardships that we cannot imagine. Their bravery and honor in serving their country is something that we feel immense pride in… Read More
The Important Role of Faculty in Mental Health Awareness Quarantine has not been easy for me. I haven’t seen my friends in weeks, my summer plans were all canceled, and the future remains uncertain. There have been days in which I have felt great and those in which I felt down. In the past, I took the social interaction… Read More
The Power of Mindfulness & Empathy: Cultural Competency Training for College Students A much-needed spotlight has recently been shone on the systemic racism that has long been embedded in our country, creating disparities and disadvantages for BIPOC communities. Many privileged individuals cannot even begin to imagine the hardships that marginalized and minority groups have faced, nor have they ever taken the time… Read More
How to Get Involved In Your Voice is Your Power D’ASIA BURRELL – Co-Writer KAMRYN PRINCE – Co-Writer Active Minds’ Your Voice Is Your Power campaign is a call to action that prioritizes BIPOC student mental health and encourages young adults to use their voices to talk about mental health disparities… Read More
Mental Health Doesn’t Have to Be Scary We have come to the end of October, and if you are like me, that means it was Halloween month! The time to binge-watch horror films from the 80s, buy pumpkins to carve, and eat a little more candy than usual. During October, a lot of things should be scary,… Read More
How to Build Relationships on Campus with Administrators At the beginning of this semester, Active Minds launched the Your Voice Is Your Power campaign that calls on students and advocates to partner with their campus multicultural affairs offices and student organizations to rally around BIPOC students’ mental health and well-being. In order to make these impactful changes… Read More
Coping with Election Stress No matter your political views, this has been a stressful 2020 presidential election season. A recent survey from the American Psychological Association and Harris Poll found that 68% of Americans cite the election as a significant source of stress in their life (compared… Read More
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