Featured Posts Remembering Brian: Twenty-Five Years Later At twenty five years, it’s about all the things he has missed. It’s the longing for everything that didn’t happen, the things that couldn’t happen, because he’s no longer here. Grief has been a strange road, one that cannot truly be explained. It started with being all-consuming, a disbelief that… 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. View all the latest blog posts
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 Supporting a Healthy Campus Community during COVID-19 Insights from Healthy Campus Awardees Last month, COVID-19 left campuses scrambling to move operations online, including efforts to support the health and wellbeing of students. We recently spoke with five campuses that have earned the Active Minds Healthy Campus Award distinction to learn about how their… Read More Four Tips for Student-Athletes During COVID-19 Millions of students have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially true for student-athletes. Rehab from injuries may be put on hold, structured schedules and routines are now gone, and for many of these athletes, their careers have been cut short prematurely. Earlier this week, Active… Read More Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2020: What You Can Do April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and while many students across the country are away from campus due to COVID-19, there are still many ways to take action and show support for survivors in your communities during this time. This is especially important amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, as… Read More Everyone’s Quarantine Experience is Different – And Valid A little over a month ago, things looked very different. We could gather in groups larger than ten. There was traffic on the highways. Flying on a plane wasn’t seen as a health hazard. Since then, life as we know it has drastically changed. The coronavirus… Read More To My Fellow Seniors: We’re Allowed To Feel Disappointed Just a short few weeks ago, senior year was in full swing. Myself and my peers all across the country were making plans for our last two months of school, two months of memories with friends to last a lifetime. But with the outbreak of COVID-19, our year… Read More 6 Things To Know About Mental Health During COVID-19 Whether we are a parent, student, teacher, employee, advocate, or community member, the shock, uncertainty, and sadness accompanying COVID-19 impacts all of us and threatens our mental health and wellbeing. This is especially true for those of us with underlying mental health issues — with potentially long-term ramifications… Read More Working Through Great Disappointment I think we can all admit that this is a weird time to be in. We have experienced school closures, classes moving to online, event cancellations, social distancing. A lot of which has led to great disappointments for some of us. Graduations, weddings, large events we have eagerly… Read More Discomfort and Chaos — What I’ve Learned Over 20 Years Since Losing Brian Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. What a moment we’re in. It feels tone-deaf to talk about this now. But, as I grapple with what is appropriate and what isn’t during this chaotic, unprecedented, and uncertain time, I realize that nothing happens in a vacuum. The experiences we’re… Read More Tips to Stay Mentally Well While Working From Home… Tips to Stay Mentally Well While Working From Home… from people who do it regularly As members of Active Minds’ remote staff, we are experts at balancing the demands of a full-time job while still maintaining healthy boundaries between our work and personal life. As many… Read More Hold On To The Good Stuff I don’t know about you, but I have never been through a pandemic before. Within the past week, my college announced its transition to online courses, my work shifts were canceled until at least the end of the month, my friends and residents started moving out of our… Read More 35 / 49
Supporting a Healthy Campus Community during COVID-19 Insights from Healthy Campus Awardees Last month, COVID-19 left campuses scrambling to move operations online, including efforts to support the health and wellbeing of students. We recently spoke with five campuses that have earned the Active Minds Healthy Campus Award distinction to learn about how their… Read More
Four Tips for Student-Athletes During COVID-19 Millions of students have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially true for student-athletes. Rehab from injuries may be put on hold, structured schedules and routines are now gone, and for many of these athletes, their careers have been cut short prematurely. Earlier this week, Active… Read More
Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2020: What You Can Do April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and while many students across the country are away from campus due to COVID-19, there are still many ways to take action and show support for survivors in your communities during this time. This is especially important amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, as… Read More
Everyone’s Quarantine Experience is Different – And Valid A little over a month ago, things looked very different. We could gather in groups larger than ten. There was traffic on the highways. Flying on a plane wasn’t seen as a health hazard. Since then, life as we know it has drastically changed. The coronavirus… Read More
To My Fellow Seniors: We’re Allowed To Feel Disappointed Just a short few weeks ago, senior year was in full swing. Myself and my peers all across the country were making plans for our last two months of school, two months of memories with friends to last a lifetime. But with the outbreak of COVID-19, our year… Read More
6 Things To Know About Mental Health During COVID-19 Whether we are a parent, student, teacher, employee, advocate, or community member, the shock, uncertainty, and sadness accompanying COVID-19 impacts all of us and threatens our mental health and wellbeing. This is especially true for those of us with underlying mental health issues — with potentially long-term ramifications… Read More
Working Through Great Disappointment I think we can all admit that this is a weird time to be in. We have experienced school closures, classes moving to online, event cancellations, social distancing. A lot of which has led to great disappointments for some of us. Graduations, weddings, large events we have eagerly… Read More
Discomfort and Chaos — What I’ve Learned Over 20 Years Since Losing Brian Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. What a moment we’re in. It feels tone-deaf to talk about this now. But, as I grapple with what is appropriate and what isn’t during this chaotic, unprecedented, and uncertain time, I realize that nothing happens in a vacuum. The experiences we’re… Read More
Tips to Stay Mentally Well While Working From Home… Tips to Stay Mentally Well While Working From Home… from people who do it regularly As members of Active Minds’ remote staff, we are experts at balancing the demands of a full-time job while still maintaining healthy boundaries between our work and personal life. As many… Read More
Hold On To The Good Stuff I don’t know about you, but I have never been through a pandemic before. Within the past week, my college announced its transition to online courses, my work shifts were canceled until at least the end of the month, my friends and residents started moving out of our… Read More
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