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 SMU Active Minds: Faces of Mental Health Summer Moss, who brought an Active Minds chapter to her campus at Samuel Merritt University, shares insight on the ‘Faces of Mental Health’ video series produced at SMU this year. … Read More Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Florida A&M University Chapter In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 21, we share this message from Florida A&M University’s Active Minds chapter, a historically black university, to both celebrate and honor the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as shed light on the mental health advocacy being… Read More College May Not Be the “Best 4 Years of Your Life” and That’s Perfectly Okay For those of you like myself, 2019 means one major thing: we’re graduating college. How exciting! The moment we’ve proclaimed ever since we first stepped foot onto our campus years ago. For some of us, we never knew when this day would come. Many late nights studying, strictly… Read More The Missing Piece in Addressing the Student Sleep Deprivation Epidemic Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. This piece was originally published as part of Thrive Global’s ‘Thrive On Campus‘ section on November 9, 2018. Click here to view the original publication. “Opportunity Cost,” reads the bright red letters displayed across the… Read More Meet Sprinkles: Jenny’s Emotional Support Animal The idea of having an animal living with you at school excites many students, because who wouldn’t want to have a pet at college? But my rabbit is not just my pet at school. He is my emotional support animal. Some may say that I’m just bringing my pet to… Read More Piece of Mind: A Display Focusing on Mental Health @ East Stroudsburg University Piece of Mind: A Display Focusing on Mental Health is an art display consisting of student-submitted 2D artwork that relates to mental health. The display was also a contest where survey results determined two winners who received prizes for their efforts in bringing awareness. What was your budget for… Read More Coping Skills Workshop @ Stockton University Coping Skills Workshop for Suicide Prevention Awareness and Disordered Eating Awareness and Prevention. A workshop to learn 5 new positive coping skills in 1 hour. What was your budget for this activity? This event did not cost our chapter any… Read More Tips To Help When The Mind Takes Over So many of us have had a panic or anxiety attack and I feel like there is a lot of closet panic/anxiety, so here are some tips, from me to you, for when the mind takes over: Anxiety manifests physically and the body goes into fight… Read More Tips to #StressLess This Exam Season It’s that point in the semester again. The pages of your agenda are filled with due dates of midterms, papers, and group projects. The amount of hours you sleep dwindles and the cups of coffee you consume skyrocket. You manage to go to your 9 am lecture while running… Read More Fundraising in 30 Minutes or Less! If you’re stumped on where to get started with fundraising, check out some of these quick and easy ideas to get the ball rolling. Raising your first dollar is the hardest part and any amount of money raised is a sign of successfully getting people invested in your… Read More 40 / 49
SMU Active Minds: Faces of Mental Health Summer Moss, who brought an Active Minds chapter to her campus at Samuel Merritt University, shares insight on the ‘Faces of Mental Health’ video series produced at SMU this year. … Read More
Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Florida A&M University Chapter In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 21, we share this message from Florida A&M University’s Active Minds chapter, a historically black university, to both celebrate and honor the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as shed light on the mental health advocacy being… Read More
College May Not Be the “Best 4 Years of Your Life” and That’s Perfectly Okay For those of you like myself, 2019 means one major thing: we’re graduating college. How exciting! The moment we’ve proclaimed ever since we first stepped foot onto our campus years ago. For some of us, we never knew when this day would come. Many late nights studying, strictly… Read More
The Missing Piece in Addressing the Student Sleep Deprivation Epidemic Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. This piece was originally published as part of Thrive Global’s ‘Thrive On Campus‘ section on November 9, 2018. Click here to view the original publication. “Opportunity Cost,” reads the bright red letters displayed across the… Read More
Meet Sprinkles: Jenny’s Emotional Support Animal The idea of having an animal living with you at school excites many students, because who wouldn’t want to have a pet at college? But my rabbit is not just my pet at school. He is my emotional support animal. Some may say that I’m just bringing my pet to… Read More
Piece of Mind: A Display Focusing on Mental Health @ East Stroudsburg University Piece of Mind: A Display Focusing on Mental Health is an art display consisting of student-submitted 2D artwork that relates to mental health. The display was also a contest where survey results determined two winners who received prizes for their efforts in bringing awareness. What was your budget for… Read More
Coping Skills Workshop @ Stockton University Coping Skills Workshop for Suicide Prevention Awareness and Disordered Eating Awareness and Prevention. A workshop to learn 5 new positive coping skills in 1 hour. What was your budget for this activity? This event did not cost our chapter any… Read More
Tips To Help When The Mind Takes Over So many of us have had a panic or anxiety attack and I feel like there is a lot of closet panic/anxiety, so here are some tips, from me to you, for when the mind takes over: Anxiety manifests physically and the body goes into fight… Read More
Tips to #StressLess This Exam Season It’s that point in the semester again. The pages of your agenda are filled with due dates of midterms, papers, and group projects. The amount of hours you sleep dwindles and the cups of coffee you consume skyrocket. You manage to go to your 9 am lecture while running… Read More
Fundraising in 30 Minutes or Less! If you’re stumped on where to get started with fundraising, check out some of these quick and easy ideas to get the ball rolling. Raising your first dollar is the hardest part and any amount of money raised is a sign of successfully getting people invested in your… Read More
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