Chapter Resources
Tools to support your chapter’s operations, programming, and other activities.
Help your chapter thrive
As part of the Active Minds Chapter Network, you have access to a plethora of resources to support your chapter’s operations, programming, and other activities. Thriving chapters create mental health change in their school’s community.
If you have questions or need support, please reach out to the Active Minds Chapters Team.
Chapter Operations
Resources to help you and your chapter operate with efficiency.
Start Here!
This shared folder contains everything you need to help you get your chapter started or refreshed when new leaders come on board. You’ll find the Chapter Agreement, Constitution, sample activity planner, recruitment materials, and more!
Chapter Logos
Each Active Minds Chapter will have a logo made for their school. Before you download your Chapter Logo, please read the brief guidelines below. Important: Please do not alter the provided logos.
EPS files should be used when printing at large sizes or doing professional printing.
PNG files should be used when printing at smaller sizes.
If you need the Active Minds national logo, it’s in the first folder called Active Minds – National Logo.
Please do not alter this logo in any way.
We are happy to provide you with a single-color white or black logo upon request.
If you’ve been with Active Minds for a while, you might notice that we no longer provide Chapter logos in your school colors.* While we still encourage you to show off school pride in your materials, we want to ensure that the Active Minds logo is showing up in our brand colors to help unify the various Active Minds Chapters across the country!
*Note: If you are still using an Active Minds logo that features your school colors, please feel free to reach out to us for an updated version. Because we create these individually, we need just a little time to work through updates to our existing logos!
(Chapter logos are organized by state)
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Operations Resources
Lifecycle of a Chapter
As you start planning how your chapter can grow and mobilize toward mental health change, it may help to think of your chapter work as a cycle that continues over time.
Role of the Advisor
There is no right way to serve as an advisor of an Active Minds chapter. However, we do have recommendations that can serve as a guide for you and your chapter leaders to determine what your relationship is like.
Keeping Your Chapter Active: National Requirements
The Active Minds National Office is here to support you in your mental health advocacy journey. This guide makes it easy for your chapter to maintain good standing and continue to have access to our national staff for technical assistance, and chapter-exclusive resources and opportunities.
Student Advisory Committee
The Student Advisory Committee (SAC) represents the Active Minds’ student voice nationally, consisting of college and university student leaders from active Chapters that collaborate with our national staff, boards, and committees on our work.
Activities & Programming
Guides to help your chapter program with best practices and creative ideas.
Chapter Meetings Guide
Most Active Minds chapters will hold regular meetings for their members. Chapter meetings serve as a regular time to gather a group and connect with each other, though there are so many possibilities for how you use this time.
Tabling Guide
Tabling at your school is a fantastic way to engage with your peers, promote your club, and recruit new members. School communities have unique characteristics and challenges, so adapting your tabling strategy to meet the needs of the student body is essential for success.
Programmatic Best Practices
A great deal of the work your chapter does will likely be related to planning, executing, and collaborating on high-impact programming. No two programs look alike and can include things like tabling, events on a range of mental health topics, guest speakers, partnering with other clubs and school offices/administrators, policy advocacy, and more.
Mental Health Messaging Best Practices
The way that we talk about mental health can be profoundly impactful, both in advocacy or programming settings and in casual conversation. We can embody values of inclusion, connection, and creating positive change by using language that reflects those values.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Guide
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are key focus areas of all Active Minds’ chapters. Mental health impacts people from all walks of life, and it’s essential to be thoughtful and deliberate about ensuring that your programming is inclusive and accessible to all.
Active Minds & Health Equity
The need for equitable access to health and mental health resources is greater than ever before. By centering health equity, we can cultivate a mentally healthier, more just future for all. We encourage you to share the video with your chapter.
Here are a few options for how to do this:
- Watch the video together at an upcoming chapter meeting
- Share the link to the video in your chapter’s group chat
- Discuss the video with your chapter leadership team and/or advisor and brainstorm ideas
Fundraising Guide
Doing a fundraiser — like a bake sale, garage sale, community walk, or open mic night — as an Active Minds chapter is easy and a direct way to mobilize the people around you to join our movement for mental health change.
Stress Less Week
This toolkit has education, tips, and resources designed to help you better understand and mitigate your stress while helping to shape a positive mental health culture in your community.
High School Chapter Guide
This guide is a tool for both prospective and current high school chapters as you build mental health advocacy efforts in your unique school community
Community College Guide
Informed by Active Minds leaders from community colleges around the country, this guide outlines the benefits of having Active Minds on your campus and provides practical steps to establish and sustain a thriving, student-led chapter tailored to the unique needs of a community college.
HBCU Report
Lessons from Black Colleges on Mental Health and Wellbeing: Practical Approaches for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Support Student Belonging and Mental Health.
Other Active Minds Programs
Active Minds has a range of programs and resources to support your chapter’s mental health advocacy efforts.
