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 Fostering a Safe School Environment: What Administrators Can Do to Support Students A few weeks ago, it was reported that one year following the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students are reporting more anxiety and depression and cutting classes. Research has long demonstrated that the effects of shootings and… Read More Meet our Fall 2019 Interns! Say hello to our wonderful group of fall 2019 interns! We are so excited to learn and grow alongside these passionate and driven mental health advocates. Kaylan Escamez Where did you go to school and what did you study? University of Reading (Reading, England), Art & History… Read More Walking on Eggshells Careful Watch your step You may break me. Stop! No sudden movements I’m very fragile. I’m very sensitive. My mother always tells me it’s like… Read More Notice and Connect Trainings – Colby College Active Minds Last fall, our chapter partnered with our school’s Counseling Center to begin implementing basic mental health trainings for members of our college community. Over the course of the semester, members of our chapter co-facilitated trainings with members of the Counseling center, educating members of the community on mental… Read More Active Minds’ Recommendations: Shaping Positive Mental Health Climates through a Peer-to-Peer Approach Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. One of the most important factors in terms of a student’s decision to seek help is campus climate. Students are uniquely positioned to have direct and immediate effects on their peers’ perceptions of mental health issues and their likelihood to… Read More You are more than your GPA You are so much more than the grades you get in classes, the top-tier internships, the score of your post graduate entrance exam. The thing about college is that through fierce and constant competition, you sometimes forget that. And honestly how could you not? You are told for years leading… Read More In the Wake of Tragedy, Discuss Mental Illness in Ways that Help, Not Hurt Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide and gun violence/school shootings. August 5, 2019 — In the wake of the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton, I am devastated to have to bring the message I wrote last year following the catastrophic events at Stoneman Douglas High School forward again. I… Read More Emerging Scholars || Letters to My Future Self RYAN FLINN NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY Ryan’s research project “Aggies Talk” examines the impact of stigma and attitudes on peer-to-peer helping behaviors among first-generation students. Dear Future Ryan, Your strength is your compassion for others. Your weakness is your self-criticism. You were born worthy. (You were… Read More Begin with Pieces Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide and self-harm. Every week for the past eight months, I have facilitated the same session from 4-5 pm on Tuesdays. I have stood in the same room and waited for adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 years old… Read More Active Minds for Every Mind Ambassadors – Class of 2019 Meet our Active Minds for Every Mind Ambassadors, a cohort of student advocates from campuses across California! The Ambassador program is part of the Active Minds for Every Mind Equity Initiative, which was created and piloted in 2016 with the generous support of the California counties, through CalMHSA. The… Read More 38 / 49
Fostering a Safe School Environment: What Administrators Can Do to Support Students A few weeks ago, it was reported that one year following the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students are reporting more anxiety and depression and cutting classes. Research has long demonstrated that the effects of shootings and… Read More
Meet our Fall 2019 Interns! Say hello to our wonderful group of fall 2019 interns! We are so excited to learn and grow alongside these passionate and driven mental health advocates. Kaylan Escamez Where did you go to school and what did you study? University of Reading (Reading, England), Art & History… Read More
Walking on Eggshells Careful Watch your step You may break me. Stop! No sudden movements I’m very fragile. I’m very sensitive. My mother always tells me it’s like… Read More
Notice and Connect Trainings – Colby College Active Minds Last fall, our chapter partnered with our school’s Counseling Center to begin implementing basic mental health trainings for members of our college community. Over the course of the semester, members of our chapter co-facilitated trainings with members of the Counseling center, educating members of the community on mental… Read More
Active Minds’ Recommendations: Shaping Positive Mental Health Climates through a Peer-to-Peer Approach Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. One of the most important factors in terms of a student’s decision to seek help is campus climate. Students are uniquely positioned to have direct and immediate effects on their peers’ perceptions of mental health issues and their likelihood to… Read More
You are more than your GPA You are so much more than the grades you get in classes, the top-tier internships, the score of your post graduate entrance exam. The thing about college is that through fierce and constant competition, you sometimes forget that. And honestly how could you not? You are told for years leading… Read More
In the Wake of Tragedy, Discuss Mental Illness in Ways that Help, Not Hurt Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide and gun violence/school shootings. August 5, 2019 — In the wake of the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton, I am devastated to have to bring the message I wrote last year following the catastrophic events at Stoneman Douglas High School forward again. I… Read More
Emerging Scholars || Letters to My Future Self RYAN FLINN NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY Ryan’s research project “Aggies Talk” examines the impact of stigma and attitudes on peer-to-peer helping behaviors among first-generation students. Dear Future Ryan, Your strength is your compassion for others. Your weakness is your self-criticism. You were born worthy. (You were… Read More
Begin with Pieces Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide and self-harm. Every week for the past eight months, I have facilitated the same session from 4-5 pm on Tuesdays. I have stood in the same room and waited for adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 years old… Read More
Active Minds for Every Mind Ambassadors – Class of 2019 Meet our Active Minds for Every Mind Ambassadors, a cohort of student advocates from campuses across California! The Ambassador program is part of the Active Minds for Every Mind Equity Initiative, which was created and piloted in 2016 with the generous support of the California counties, through CalMHSA. The… Read More
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