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 Meet Active Minds’ Summer 2022 Interns! Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Welcome to our amazing group of summer 2022 interns! We’re so excited to work with them to continue changing the conversation around mental health. Sofia Alvarez 1. Where are you from? I’m from Newark, DE. 2. Where do you… Read More Taking Pride in My Intersectional Identity and the Power It Gives Me Throughout my life, I resided in many multi-cultural, under-resourced, and impoverished communities that exposed me to a multitude of systemic inequities that impacted my family and friends’ well-being and mental health. I too faced those inequities as a queer Latiné, and as I learned more about the systems… Read More Jorge Alvarez, Former Active Minds Chapter Leader, Shared His Story at the White House The Mental Health Youth Action Forum, hosted for the first time in 2022 and taking place at the White House, was a time for the next generation of mental health advocates to gather and share their experiences, perspectives, and solutions regarding mental health. Jorge Alvarez, whose advocacy through… Read More Active Minds Speaker Diana Chao Shares Her Mental Health Story with Dr. Jill Biden, Selena Gomez, and the U.S. Surgeon General Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Diana Chao, Active Minds Speaker, was one of a select group of young adult mental health leaders chosen to take part in the inaugural Mental Health Youth Action Forum at the White House. A first-generation Chinese-American immigrant and graduate of Princeton University,… Read More Trauma Prevention Is Mental Health Now more than ever, we’re seeing investments in mental health: from colleges and universities prioritizing the expansion of resources, to corporations supporting further research, to President Biden addressing the youth mental health crisis head-on at the State of the Union. As we continue to focus on mental health… Read More Ending the Stigma Around Men’s Mental Health as a Transgender Man Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. Being perceived as less of a man when expressing emotion. Facing unrealistic stereotypes and expectations. Being made to feel like your mental health doesn’t matter, or that you can’t struggle with your feelings without being invalidated. As a transgender… Read More Mental Health Matters: Here’s How I Proved It In My High School When I look back at the past four years of high school, and ahead to the future as a graduate, one of the biggest changes that I saw in my community of classmates was around mental health culture. How schools view and address mental health can vary widely… Read More We Each Play a Role in Supporting LGBTQ+ Mental Health Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. Pride Month is a time when many organizations and communities show their support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community in hopes of creating a culture that is more accepting, welcoming, and inclusive. What started as… Read More Supportive Communities Change Lives – Here’s How to Engage Yours I was in my second year of college when my first major bout with depression hit. It was 2006 and at the time, I had never heard about depression, anxiety, or really mental health at all. I didn’t have the language to articulate what I was going through… Read More The Mental Health Crisis of School Shootings We forget. Again and again, we forget. We forget the lives lost. We forget the screaming and tears of the classmates. The gasping, breathtaking grief of the parents, and the ashen shock of the teachers. We forget the horror, the anger, the anguish. We forget. We allow complacency… Read More 20 / 48
Meet Active Minds’ Summer 2022 Interns! Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Welcome to our amazing group of summer 2022 interns! We’re so excited to work with them to continue changing the conversation around mental health. Sofia Alvarez 1. Where are you from? I’m from Newark, DE. 2. Where do you… Read More
Taking Pride in My Intersectional Identity and the Power It Gives Me Throughout my life, I resided in many multi-cultural, under-resourced, and impoverished communities that exposed me to a multitude of systemic inequities that impacted my family and friends’ well-being and mental health. I too faced those inequities as a queer Latiné, and as I learned more about the systems… Read More
Jorge Alvarez, Former Active Minds Chapter Leader, Shared His Story at the White House The Mental Health Youth Action Forum, hosted for the first time in 2022 and taking place at the White House, was a time for the next generation of mental health advocates to gather and share their experiences, perspectives, and solutions regarding mental health. Jorge Alvarez, whose advocacy through… Read More
Active Minds Speaker Diana Chao Shares Her Mental Health Story with Dr. Jill Biden, Selena Gomez, and the U.S. Surgeon General Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Diana Chao, Active Minds Speaker, was one of a select group of young adult mental health leaders chosen to take part in the inaugural Mental Health Youth Action Forum at the White House. A first-generation Chinese-American immigrant and graduate of Princeton University,… Read More
Trauma Prevention Is Mental Health Now more than ever, we’re seeing investments in mental health: from colleges and universities prioritizing the expansion of resources, to corporations supporting further research, to President Biden addressing the youth mental health crisis head-on at the State of the Union. As we continue to focus on mental health… Read More
Ending the Stigma Around Men’s Mental Health as a Transgender Man Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. Being perceived as less of a man when expressing emotion. Facing unrealistic stereotypes and expectations. Being made to feel like your mental health doesn’t matter, or that you can’t struggle with your feelings without being invalidated. As a transgender… Read More
Mental Health Matters: Here’s How I Proved It In My High School When I look back at the past four years of high school, and ahead to the future as a graduate, one of the biggest changes that I saw in my community of classmates was around mental health culture. How schools view and address mental health can vary widely… Read More
We Each Play a Role in Supporting LGBTQ+ Mental Health Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. Pride Month is a time when many organizations and communities show their support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community in hopes of creating a culture that is more accepting, welcoming, and inclusive. What started as… Read More
Supportive Communities Change Lives – Here’s How to Engage Yours I was in my second year of college when my first major bout with depression hit. It was 2006 and at the time, I had never heard about depression, anxiety, or really mental health at all. I didn’t have the language to articulate what I was going through… Read More
The Mental Health Crisis of School Shootings We forget. Again and again, we forget. We forget the lives lost. We forget the screaming and tears of the classmates. The gasping, breathtaking grief of the parents, and the ashen shock of the teachers. We forget the horror, the anger, the anguish. We forget. We allow complacency… Read More
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