Featured Posts Finding Connection at Send Silence Packing® Connection. I left our most recent stop of Send Silence Packing® (SSP) with this word brimming at the top of my mind. Although I’m fairly new to Active Minds, I didn’t expect the exhibit to have this kind of impact on me as one of the staff members… “Existence Is Enough” Queer Community, Mental Health, and the Power of Belonging Brotherhood in Action: A Community Approach to Mental Health Awareness 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
Brotherhood in Action: A Community Approach to Mental Health Awareness 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 Five Suicide Prevention Strategies to Inspire Lasting Change Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Suicide prevention can be as simple as starting a conversation. However, it can sometimes be difficult to know what to say, as well as what other actions when the conversation ends. As a multiple suicide attempt survivor… Read More An Educator’s Guide to Supporting Student Mental Health Every year, I participate in summer orientation where we welcome students to campus. As a professor, this time is critical to meet the incoming class, hear from them about what they need during this transition, and uncover more about the best way we can lead in supporting student… Read More Five Sunday Scaries Tips to Protect Your Mental Health From Monday to Friday, it’s easy for our minds to be consumed by work, school, and related obligations. While going through the motions during these five weekdays, we often have the freedom and excitement that the weekend brings in the back of our minds. How will I enjoy… Read More Mental Health Awareness Starts With You: High School Mental Health Prep Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicidal ideation. During my freshman year of high school, I felt lost. Looking back, I see myself as a young girl trying her best to support a best friend struggling with suicidal ideation but not knowing where to turn. I see… Read More Advice for My Freshman Self: College Mental Health Prep Dear me, How are you feeling about going to college for the first time? Nervous, excited, a little bit of both? I get it. It can be overwhelming thinking about all the big changes that come with moving out on your own, making new friends, taking… Read More 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… Read More 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… Read More 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… Read More Yes, And: Reflecting on 988 Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. 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… Read More My Experience as an Emerging Scholar: BIPOC Veterans and Mental Health Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. 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… Read More 18 / 48
Five Suicide Prevention Strategies to Inspire Lasting Change Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Suicide prevention can be as simple as starting a conversation. However, it can sometimes be difficult to know what to say, as well as what other actions when the conversation ends. As a multiple suicide attempt survivor… Read More
An Educator’s Guide to Supporting Student Mental Health Every year, I participate in summer orientation where we welcome students to campus. As a professor, this time is critical to meet the incoming class, hear from them about what they need during this transition, and uncover more about the best way we can lead in supporting student… Read More
Five Sunday Scaries Tips to Protect Your Mental Health From Monday to Friday, it’s easy for our minds to be consumed by work, school, and related obligations. While going through the motions during these five weekdays, we often have the freedom and excitement that the weekend brings in the back of our minds. How will I enjoy… Read More
Mental Health Awareness Starts With You: High School Mental Health Prep Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicidal ideation. During my freshman year of high school, I felt lost. Looking back, I see myself as a young girl trying her best to support a best friend struggling with suicidal ideation but not knowing where to turn. I see… Read More
Advice for My Freshman Self: College Mental Health Prep Dear me, How are you feeling about going to college for the first time? Nervous, excited, a little bit of both? I get it. It can be overwhelming thinking about all the big changes that come with moving out on your own, making new friends, taking… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Yes, And: Reflecting on 988 Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. 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… Read More
My Experience as an Emerging Scholar: BIPOC Veterans and Mental Health Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. 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… Read More
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