We are coming up on one of my favorite times of the year. This August 16th, we will be gathering as a national staff to pack the medium flat rate boxes that hold hundreds of mental health resources and giveaways and send them off to our chapters. If your chapter gave us a mailing address…
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Active Minds in the Community
Active Minds is all about raising mental health awareness on campus. However, chapters are also part of larger communities that could benefit from our messaging, too! We interviewed Floie Stouder, the advisor for Active Minds at Indiana University – Purdue University at Fort Wayne (IPFW), and Diana Mathew and Brynne Alexander, president and vice president…
April Chapter of the Month: Virginia State University
Congratulations to the Active Minds chapter at Virginia State University for being selected as the April Chapter of the Month! The chapter’s stigma-fighting programs this semester have successfully generated conversations about mental health on the VSU campus, and the national office couldn’t be prouder to recognize their efforts. Active Minds at VSU recently hosted Happiness…
Chapter of the Month
Congratulations to Active Minds at the University of Maine for being selected as the March Chapter of the Month! Their efforts to raise awareness for mental health on their campus have been innovative and engaging, and the national office is excited to recognize UMaine for their awesome stigma-fighting work. One of AM at UMaine’s biggest…
February Chapter of the Month: University of Michigan
Congratulations to Active Minds at the University of Michigan for being selected as the February Chapter of the Month! Their advocacy efforts have generated countless conversations about mental health at U of M and beyond, and have yielded hundreds of dollars for the life-changing work we do at Active Minds. In fall 2016, Active Minds…
What We Learned From Your Fall Inventory Feedback
Thank you to the 250 chapters that completed their fall inventories! This semester you hosted 742 events and reached more than 101,000 students with mental health resources. Chapters reported their top strengths to be leadership, collaboration, and programming, and almost 30% of chapters are planning to expand their reach, or already have, by pursuing policy…
November Chapter of the Month: Ithaca College
A big congratulations to Ithaca College, our Chapter of the Month for November. All of us at the Active Minds National Office are beyond impressed by your efforts and are proud to be able to share your accomplishments with other members. By partnering with other departments, organizations, and campus groups, Ithaca has cultivated strong relationships…
Giving Tuesday Contest on Nov 29: Earn Prizes!
Hey stigmafighters! We wanted to let you know about a brand-new initiative we’ve created to help chapters fundraise that will take just ONE day of your time and will help earn prizes for you and your chapter, including a FREE awareness campaign kit like the one you received in the mail earlier this semester. This…
Send Silence Packing: Meet Samantha Greenhalgh
Hey everyone! My name is Samantha (you can call me Sam). I am one of the new Send Silence Packing Staffers for the Fall 2016 Tour. I graduated with a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham this past May, and from the moment I heard Active Minds was looking for new…