Active Minds at Ramapo hosted a "Wellness Wish" event during which students could create their wellness wishes on paper leaves that the chapter made into an entire Wellness Tree. Over 100 students, staff and administrators signed wellness leaves and Active Minds has received requests to host another Wellness Wish event for the spring.
Active Minds at Oregon State
Active Minds at Oregon State collaborated with and presented at their school's diversity summit which was widely attended by the student body and community members. Their chapter presented on mental health as a social justice issue and how they are part of the social justice movement as well as the national Active Minds movement.
Active Minds at Flagler College
Active Minds at Flagler hosted "Inside the Bully-Eye: Evolution of a Bully" with a panel of professors and author Dr. Carl Horner. This program focused on how a person becomes a bully and how they can receive help for this harmful behavior.
Active Minds at Oberlin College
Collaborating with other student organizations, Active Minds at Oberlin hosted "Inner Peace meets Outer Peace," a spoken word, poetry, and hip-hop event. Participants had fun while engaging in performances that highlighted the connections between outside peace and the influence it has on inner wellness.
Active Minds at Emory University
While tabling their stress-free events, Active Minds at Emory invited students to write down positive experiences that happened during that week to share with others. Students also wrote what stressed them out on other sheets of paper and then ripped them into pieces to physically release their stress. The chapter also gave participants stress balls and information on stress-relief.
Active Minds at Southern Connecticut State University
On their first day of finals week, Active Minds at Southern Connecticut held a "Free Hugs Day," providing soothing embraces to stressed-out students. Not only did the event provide finals stress-relief, but the chapter had to bring in extra huggers for the event and got some new members from their volunteers!
Active Minds at Georgia Perimeter College - Decatur
Active Minds at GPC - Decatur partnered with Advising and Counseling and Retention Services to host their personal enrichment workshop "Mental Health 101: Taking Action" to share the Active Minds mission and messaging to all students on their campus, including the non-traditional student community.
Active Minds at Bowie State
During the month of October, Active Minds at Bowie State hosted an information booth in their Student Center. They had a massage therapist from a local spa come by to give students complimentary massages during their Stress Relief event as the chapter shared information about stress prevention, relief and healthy tips for students.
Active Minds at the University of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Active Minds at UT Brownsville and Texas Southmost College invited students to their Depression Screening Art Show. Chapter members provided canvas and art supplies to passing students who created positive artwork and received informational material about depression and recognizing its signs and symptoms.
Active Minds at Tufts University
During National Mental Health Awareness Week, Active Minds at Tufts painted their campus's famous canon to advertise their mental health awareness blog. Not only did the chapter receive great publicity, but painting together was a great bonding experience!
Active Minds at Guilford College
Active Minds at Guilford held a Midterm Stress Relief Fair, which included education about stress and stress relief, massages, artwork, stress ball making, pedestal jousting and a bouncy castle to provide students with the opportunity to learn and take a break from midterm studying.
Active Minds at the University of Pittsburgh
Active Minds at Pitt teamed up with Student Affairs and their Athletics Department for their depression awareness campaign, "Talk About It." They created a Public Service Announcement with several Pitt athletes and passed out "Pitt Cares" rally towels at a televised football game to give students information on where to find help.
Active Minds at the University of Georgia
To show their support for the LGBTQ community and to address specific mental health concerns for LGBTQ students, Active Minds at UGA participated in their campus's "Ally Outreach Fair" and shared information and resources about Active Minds.
Active Minds at the Claremont Colleges
Active Minds at the Claremont Colleges participated in their school's annual musical festival by creating a "10 Things I Love About You" table. Participants could write positive notes to 10 other students, which the chapter delivered for them. Active Minds tracked their progress by filling up a heart "meter" at the table!
Active Minds at Northern Illinois University
To celebrate Halloween, Active Minds at Northern Illinois University went "reverse trick-or-treating" by creating small mental health fact sheets and attaching them to pieces of candy. They then handed out the fact-filled candy to students all over campus!
Active Minds at Colby College
For National Day Without Stigma, Active Minds at Colby College created pencils inscribed with "Erase Mental Health Stigma. Be Mindful!" and handed them out to students.
Active Minds at Rice University
Active Minds at Rice partnered with a local trivia series to host a Mental Health trivia night addressing common myths and misconceptions about mental illness.
Active Minds at VCU
Active Minds at VCU collaborated with the SVA to remove the stigma associated with Student Veterans receiving mental health services.
Active Minds at Roosevelt University
Active
Minds at Roosevelt University hosted their signature “Send Stress Away” event,
where students wrote their stressors on postcards and mailed them away.
Active Minds at University of Minnesota-Rochester
For National Stress
Out Day, Active Minds at the University of Minnesota-Rochester put on a
Pie-Your-Professor event where students were drawn at random and to throw a
shaving cream pie at a university faculty member.
Active Minds at the University of Virginia
Active Minds at the
University of Virginia hosted a stress-relieving event where interested
students could decorate cookies and learn more about the new chapter at UVa.
2010-2011
Active Minds at Smith College
For
National Stress Out Day, Active Minds at Smith held Martial Arts
Therapy, scale smashing and stressball making to help students cool down
and let it all out before finals.
Active Minds at FIU
Active Minds at Florida International University
started a new program this semester called "Movie & Discuss".
Participants watched a documentary or a fact-based film and discussed
the mental health issue that was portrayed in the film. The event became
a member favorite!
Active Minds at Washington and Lee
Active Minds at
Washington and Lee held a panel panel of five students, one male, who
had all experienced eating disorders. Several students commented on how
powerful it was to see peers talking about their challenges and giving
sound advice to those who are trying to help friends, or even
themselves.
Active Minds at University of Colorado-Denver
Active
Minds at UC-Denver gathered over 40 stress management examples from
students in all areas of study to post around our campus. The flyers,
which decorated every building on campus, gave real-life examples from
students on how to manage stress.
Active Minds at Oswego State
Active Minds at Oswego State hosted Kick It! with Active Minds
, raising over $600 for Active Minds and engaging over 60 students and
community members in promoting sportsmanship, community, philanthropy,
and fun.
Active Minds at Sir Francis Drake High School
Active Minds at Sir
Francis Drake High School addressed depression on our campus by having a
booth at the heart of their high school with shocking statistics and
misconceptions about depression. This led to amazing conversation with
our peers.
Active Minds at University of North Dakota
Active
Minds at UND organized a program for Night Life @ UND called “Come
create the mask you hide behind." They stressed the importance of not
hiding behind masks in our daily lives and the need to talk openly about
mental illness by decorating their own masks.
Active Minds at University of North Carolina
Active Minds at UNC are working on a video to
end the use of the word "retarded" on the UNC campus. chapter
interviewed a number of their campus peers on how the word impacts them,
and they are working to turn it into a video for UNC to use in their
social media portal.
Active Minds at University of California-Riverside
Active
Minds at UC Riverside had their annual Active Minds Birthday Party. It
was a wonderful sight to see so many returning members come celebrate
with the chapter and remind them that their peers are the most effective
advocates.
Active Minds at Regis
Active
Minds at Regis University set up blank canvases in their quad for
students to come and splatter paint as part of their Jackson Pollock
Splatter Paint event. It was a great opportunity to talk about mental
health and have a good time throwing paint at the same time.
Active Minds at Connecticut College
Active Minds at Connecticut College partnered
with their Psychology Club to show the film "Men and Depression." The
film screening was followed by a discussion of how stigma particularly
affects men.
Active Minds at Emory University
For
their Stress "Out" Carnival, Active Minds at Emory set up game tables
that were intended to educate about stress management and dispel
stereotypes, in addition to other fun activities.
Active Minds at Collin College
Active
Minds at Collin College organized "Celebrate Don't Hate" week with
speakers, tabling, information sessions, and interactive sessions. The
week focused on mental health awareness and resources, suicide awareness
and prevention, bullying, and differences in students showing we are
all just people.
Active Minds at USI
Active Minds at the University of
Southern Indiana made a visual display of pinwheels representing every
student, statistically, who suffers from a mental health problem. The
pinwheels were accompanies with educational signs.
Active Minds at University of Rochester
Active
Minds at University of Rochester is working closely with campus Health
Promotions to co-sponsor the spring "Healthy Mondays" initiative and
"Feel Fabulous in February" campaign.
Active Minds at University of Toronto
Active
Minds at University of Toronto held a coffee house with a meditation
session and games. They went to the library afterward to give away the
leftover donated coffee and got many people signed up to learn more
about their chapter.
Active Minds at Ohio Wesleyan
Active Minds at Ohio Wesleyan
University held a "What a Difference a Friend Makes..." program
combining materials from Active Minds and the SAMHSA campaign. The
program included handing out free hugs and "compli-mints" along with the
information.
Active Minds at New Hampshire
Active
Minds at University of New Hampshire worked with an English class to
develop educational posters and brochures for their chapter with
information about depression, suicide warning signs, and how to get
help.
Active Minds at Colby
Active
Minds at Colby College collected anonymous short essays from Colby
students who had struggled, knew someone who struggled, or are
struggling with a mental illness and read them at their Narratives of
Mental Health program.
Active Minds at CSU-Chico
Active Minds at California State
University-Chico gave a presentation on suicide prevention to a local
community college class, with facts, info, warning signs for depression
& suicide, followed by a class discussion.
Active Minds at Roosevelt
Active
Minds at Roosevelt University worked with RU Prime to spread AIDS/HIV
awareness and encourage testing on campus. They tabled alongside RU
Prime and provided students and faculty with information and brochures
regarding mental health and HIV/AIDS.
Active Minds at Vanderbilt
Active
Minds at Vanderbilt University help current seniors at a local,
underprivileged high school work on their college applications once a
week. The workshops are geared towards educating students how to get
through a stressful time in their life and the importance of mental
health in college.
Active Minds at Misericordia
Active Minds at Misericordia University
celebrated the on-campus counseling center's name change to the
"Counseling and Psychological Services Center" (CAPS) by having students
decorate paper caps and tape them around the office entrance, to make
CAPS more welcoming to students who need help.
Active Minds at Alma College
Active
Minds at Alma College shared an anonymous student's story as part of
the school's online campaign to deliver messages of encouragement and
help fight bullying. See the complete video here.
Active Minds at Rutgers-Newark
Active
Minds at University of Rutgers-Newark held a "Blowing Up Stigma" where
participants inserted messages of hope and inspiration into the
balloons, which had stigmas written on the outside. Participants
exchanged balloons and then popped them all together, eliminating stigma
from themselves and their community.
Active Minds at UCLA
Active Minds at UCLA held a Sleep
Workshop funded by the Student Welfare Commission and Office of
Residential Life. Three chapter members made a presentation filed with
practical tips for better sleep, interactive activities, and sleeping
eye mask decorations.
Active Minds at Union College
Active
Minds at Union College held a "These are a few of my favorite things"
stress relief event, where they partnered with a residential hall to
host a t-shirt and bracelet making event, reminding people of the things
that make them genuinely happy.
Active Minds at GWU
Active Minds at George Washington University culminated their National Day Without Stigma with a powerpoint display called "Glass Thoughts" projected in main campus during the night Each slide showed a statement made by a student in connection to mental health.
Active Minds at Marquette University
Active Minds at Marquette partnered with the University Counseling Center, Health Education, Peer Health, Department of Public Safety, and Sexual Violence Awareness Group to put together an ice cream social for the students in order to make them aware of the resources concerning mental health available on their college campus.
Active Minds at Ithaca College
Active Minds at Ithaca is working on SYM -Speak Your Mind- Panels where students who have had experiences with mental illness or know someone who has have the chance to speak on a panel with others, then the panel is opened up into a discussion with all the attendees.
Active Minds at Bryn Mawr
Active Minds at Bryn Mawr College made 1500 silver ribbons attached to a tiny sheet of paper with info on mental health for every student and faculty member on campus. They delivered the ribbons to students' dorm rooms and placed them outside faculty's offices.
Active Minds at Baker University
For National Day Without Stigma, Active Minds at Baker held several events including "Stomp Out Stigma" where they stomped on blue balloons that had words related to stigma written on them (i.e. "ignorance," "judgmental," etc).
Active Minds at Montgomery College
Active Minds at Montgomery College gave informal talks in Pychology classes on campus. They handed out goodie bags after the informational and Q&A sessions, and then proceeded to the Student Center to give out the rest of the materials and bags to interested students.
Active Minds at Muhlenberg
In order to ensure a smooth transition into the new school year, Active Minds at Muhlenberg College presented smoothies to the campus and invited them to their first meeting.
Active Minds at East Tennessee State
Active Minds at East Tenessee State University hosted a Mental Health Awareness Day as part of National Suicide Prevention Week. In addition to resources, free food, music and giveaways, they hosted Bryan Adams, a member of The Heard Speakers Bureau.
Active Minds at Mizzou
Active Minds at University of Missouri put on Chill Out With Active Minds, a fundraiser selling five different flavors of snow cones available on campus two different days of the week.
2009-2010
Active Minds at Chapman
Active Minds at Chapman threw a "No Stress Shake Fest" dance party on their quad in the middle of the day. Students danced their stress away to great music in between classes.
Active Minds at Immaculata University
Active Minds at Immaculata University created "The Mask Project" that brought their campus together to design and paint masks that expressed their inner feelings. The masks were then displayed outside of the counseling center for the semester.
Active Minds at St. Catherine University
Active Minds at St. Catherine University organized a Body Image Awareness Walk with two other area colleges. They walked from one campus to the next with signs promoting a positive body image that ended with a rally complete with information booths and entertainment.
Active Minds at Ursinus
Active Minds at Ursinus held an art fair on campus in conjunction with the Ursinus Center for Advocacy, Responsibility and Engagement. About 150 customers attended to appreciate and purchase the artwork.
Active Minds at University of Montana
Active Minds at University of Montana organized a Blues Fest, which was a 3 day event to raise awareness about depression and suicide. Blues musicians played throughout the three days and depression screenings were offered to students.
Active Minds at Luther College
Active Minds at Luther college hung umbrellas with interesting facts and statistics about mental illness in the trees by well-traveled sidewalks around campus to bring awareness to students in a new and creative way.
Active Minds at Messiah College
Active Minds at Messiah held an event that consisted of four skits that were written and performed by the Active Minds chapter leaders. The skits focused on loneliness, self esteem issues, eating disorders and stress/anxiety.
Active Minds at Thomas More
Active Minds at Thomas More College put post-it notes with inspirational, funny and motivating quotes in a major hallway on campus to inspire students during National Stress Out Day. Students were encouraged to take a post-it note if they liked the message!
Active Minds at UC Irvine
Active Minds at University of California Irvine organized Ruff Days for Live Kind month, a month of programming on campus to unite the community for the sake of promoting kindness. They brought dogs for students to play with and distributed fortune cookies with compliments and positive messages in them.
Active Minds at UC Riverside
Active Minds at University of California-Riverside focused on the importance of friendship with two programs - "Power of the Peers" and "Speed Friending" where students were given discussion starters and a set time to get to know one another.
Active Minds at The New School
Active Minds at The New School held a Cinco de Mayo themed National Stress Out Day with live jazz music, tacos, stress ball-making, free massages, and educational information.
Active Minds at Towson
Active Minds at Towson University displayed 1,100 drawstring backpacks along with statistics about suicide in the center of campus. The chapter won the Above and Beyond award from their student government for the event.
Active Minds at Windsor
Active Minds at University of Windsor held a campus battle of the bands including student-led bands from across campus. There was a cover at the door and all the proceeds went towards the chapter. It was a great way to spread awareness to new groups of people on campus!
Active Minds at UCCS
Active Minds at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs held a beach party for National Stress Out Day, complete with a slip n' slide, water toys, make your own stress balls, kites, kick ball, live music, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, food and informational flyers.
Active Minds at Stevenson
Active Minds at Stevenson University participated in Dreams Untitled, a national chalk mural campaign where students, faculty and staff drew and wrote messages of hope in order to open dialogue about suicide and reaching out for help.
Active Minds at Misericordia
Active Minds at Misericordia University held a Screamfest on campus for National Stress Out Day. Members of the campus community came together and were encouraged to scream at the top of their lungs for 10 seconds to relieve stress.
Active Minds at Mount St. Joseph
Active Minds at College of Mount St. Joseph plans to set up "Let it go" boxes around campus for students to release pent up anxieties, resentments, worries and fears during Stress Out Day.
Active Minds at UMN
During the display of Send Silence Packing on their campus, Active Minds at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities held a flash mob "freeze," where 100 participants in "I am a mental health advocate" t-shirts stood frozen in place to raise awareness about the display.
Active Minds at University of California Santa Barbara
Active Minds at University of California Santa Barbara participated in Safe Spring Break, an event organized by Students Teaching Alcohol and other Drug Responsibilities. The chapter tabled and handed out materials discussing the correlation between alcohol consumption and mental health.
Active Minds at University of Richmond
Active Minds at Richmond held their annual Student Speak-Out where individual stories were shared anonymously to show the power of stigma and provide a personal connection to facts about mental health disorders.
Active Minds at University of Connecticut
Active Minds at University of Connecticut planned a members retreat where they did mindfulness and relaxation exercises, a few teambuilding activities, and talked about the mission and goals of the chapter as well as programming ideas for next year.
Active Minds at Thomas Jefferson High School
Active Minds at Thomas Jefferson High School organized an Active Minds Jeopardy to liven things up at a meeting and educate their members about mental health and Active Minds. Categories included Famous Folk, Law & Legislation, Facts & Figures, and Signs and Symptoms.
Active Minds at Montclair State University
Active Minds at Montclair State was selected to have representatives serve on the President's Commission on Affirmative Action and Diversity, which is composed of administrators, faculty and students who work to assure that the University fulfills its commitment to equal opportunity.
Active Minds at Our Lady of the Lake University
Active Minds at Our Lady of the Lake University held a fundraiser where they sold fried Oreos and ice cream with all proceeds going to their chapter.
Active Minds at Florida Institute of Technology
Active Minds at Florida Institute of Technology kicked off a Love My Life (LML) campaign aimed at helping people focus on the uplifting moments in life. Students and faculty are encouraged to write down positive statements about their lives on sticky notes and post them on display boards on campus.
Active Minds at Ohio State University
Active Minds at OSU hosted a panel discussion on veterans and mental health, which included veterans from the United States Army and Marine Corps, a counselor from the Samuel Balla Veterans Center, and representatives from OSU Counseling and Consultation services.
Active Minds at Northern Illinois University
Active Minds at Northern Illinois University painted positive messages about self-image on donates jeans and hung them in NIU's recreational center for their Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Active Minds at Mercyhurst
Active Minds at Mercyhurst organized Mirrorless Monday, where they covered all the bathroom mirrors on campus and put up posters with facts about body image, to raise awareness about eating disorders.
Active Minds at St. Louis University
Active Minds at SLU held an "Active Caring" tabling week during Valentine's Day and Mardi Gras. They had information about Active Minds and where to get help on campus, and also handed out Mardi Gras beads with mental health facts attached.
Active Minds at University of Dayton
Active Minds at University of Dayton is getting ready for MFest, their 7th annual music and art festival dedicated to raising awareness of suicide amongst college students.
Active Minds at Virginia Tech
During presentations in the dorms about mental health, Active Minds at Virginia Tech makes 'sock buddies' where students fill old socks with rice and put googley eyes on them. They keep students company while they are studying and are funny to look at!
Active Minds at UCLA
Active Minds at the University of California - Los Angeles hosted a Sleep Workshop for freshmen and sophomores living in the dorms with information about sleep facts and myths, relaxation techniques and eye mask giveaways.
Active Minds at Dartmouth College
Active Minds at Dartmouth started a new initiative called 'Active Minds, Active Bodies' to promote an active lifestyle amongst their members. So far, they've been hiking in the area and played a pick-up game of hockey.
Active Minds at Alma College
Active Minds at Alma held a Stress Out Party where students could play original Nintendo and "indoor basketball," learn relaxation and yoga techniques, participate in aromatherapy and submit thoughts to the Let It Go box.
Active Minds at Le Moyne College
Active Minds at Le Moyne held a week of events around Valentines Day, including sending 400 "candy-grams" out to the campus community, a display of paper hearts near the campus cafeteria where people could write about who they were thinking of on the special day.
Active Minds at Denison University
Active Minds at Denison worked with their counseling center to provide students with free snacks and resources from the counseling center and other tips before finals week. Over half of the student body attended!
Active Minds at Macalester
Active Minds at Macalester held a Slices of Insight dinner where members and non-members share their experiences and perspectives with mental health to help stimulate conversation on the subject and students' understanding of how the discourse about mental health is generated.
Active Minds at UC Santa Barbara
Active Minds at the University of California Santa Barbara started a "Yay My Life" board where students wrote positive things that happened to them that day.The board caught everyone's attention and was a huge hit on campus.
Active Minds at Samford College
Active Minds at Samford held a panel discussion in a residence hall with the Assistant Dean of the School of Pharmacy, a school minister, and a clinical psychologist on the topics of depression and eating disorders.
Active Minds at University of Memphis
Active Minds at Memphis held a study break oasis with free massages, reflexology and parrafin hand treatment. Additionally, the counseling center provided 2 laptops so that students could take anxiety, depression and eating disorder screenings.
Active Minds at Lafayette College
During Lafayette's Stress-Out Day, students could write a note to a friend and decorate a postcard with stress-relieving tips on the back. The chapter then mailed the postcards to students who were unable to make it so they didn't miss out on the fun!
Active Minds at Southern Connecticut
Active Minds at Southern Connecticut held a Stress and Anxiety Relief Bake Sale where they decorated their own gingerbread cookies and sold "Sunshine Lemon Bars" and "Stress Free Cookies."
Active Minds at Boston University
Active Minds at BU held a late night bake sale in celebration of the last day of classes. In addition to home-made cookies, brownies and cupcakes for sale, the chapter handed out Active Minds penguin keychains and helpful stress-relieving tips for finals.
Active Minds at Lake Superior College
Active Minds at Lake Superior hosted an open mic event in recognition of Suicide Survivor day. Their chapter leaders were amazing with the student survivors on campus who were not afraid to get up and share their stories.
Active Minds at Emory
Active Minds at Emory made bags full of candy, gum, pens, pencils and other goodies and distributed them around campus for students to use during finals.
Active Minds at Alma College
Congrats to Active Minds at Alma for winning this year's National Day Without Stigma raffle for organizing a great day of programs and completing their evaluations for the Active Minds office! A highlight of their day were Smarties candy they handed out on campus that said "Be a smartie about mental health."
Active Minds at Flagler College
Active Minds at Flagler held a "Smash Out Stigma" event which included smashing computers with a sledge hammer, throwing pies at friends, making heating pads and stress balls, creating zen gardens, bubbles, hot tea, frisbees, and learning education tips on how to de-stress.
Active Minds at Tufts
Active Minds at Tufts posted an anonymous board asking a different question each day relating to counseling or mental health for a week where people in the campus center were able to respond and display their responses on post-it notes.
Active Minds at Xavier University
Active Minds at Xavier handed out nearly 300 stress balls on their campus greenspace, along with informational flyers about Active Minds.
Active Minds at Indiana University-PA
Active Minds at Indiana University of Pennsylvania raised over $400 for their chapter at their "Soup Bowl" Fundraiser. The ceramics club donated bowls, which were sold for $8 with homemade soup and bread.
Active Minds at Oregon State
The chapter is going from room to room in the dorms providing information on mental health and trying to "Take Out the Stigma" by creating discussion around these issues. In return for students giving their time to speak to them, chapter members then take out their trash!
Active Minds at Dickinson
Active Minds at Dickinson held their first program of the year, a Stomp Out Stigma event. Two local shipping companies sponsored the event by providing numerous rolls of bubblewrap to help students release some unneeded midterm stress.
Active Minds at Pitt-Bradford
Active Minds at Pitt-Bradford participated in 'The World's a Scary Place' where they wrote statistics about the rate and prevalence of suicide in college students in the glow-in-the-dark paint and hung them in a dark room. Even though the room was dark and scary, they hung Christmas lights to represent the hope that can come with awareness.
Active Minds at St. Ambrose
Active Minds at St. Ambrose University participated in 'Welcome Week' by partnering with the health center and Pampered Chef. They did presentations on mental health and physical health, and Pampered Chef held a microwave cooking demo on how to eat healthy in college. They had a great turnout!
Active Minds at WSHS
Active Minds at West Springfield High School incorporated the "1 in 4" of individuals over the age of 18 in the US have a diagnosable mental health disorder statistic into their school's 'Spartanfest.' They gave away gingerbread cookies and one out of every four had a frowny face instead of a smiley face.
Active Minds at UConn
For Suicide Prevention Week, Active Minds at UConn displayed 1,100 yellow flags to honor college students that die by suicide annually and participated in an interactive art exhibit where students shared the ways in which suicide affects their lives. Read about it in The Daily Campus.
2008-2009
Active Minds at Grinnell
Active Minds at Grinnell College hosted a reading from a new group-created publication about mental health and leaving with mental illness. Writers came to share their pieces.
Active Minds at Oregon State
Active Minds at Oregon State
University held a daisy event on their quad with a daisy to represent each and every one of the student suicides yearly. See a video of the project here.
Active Minds at U. of South Carolina
Active Minds at University of South Carolina, in tandem with the USC counseling center has implemented the HERO Project. The goal of the HERO Project is to recognize those who have spoken up and acted on their moral convictions to better the well-being of a fellow classmate or teacher.
Active Minds at UCLA
The chapter is commemorating Eating Disorders Awareness Week by screening the movie "Thin" and hosting a discussion panel.
Active Minds at University of Richmond
Congratulations on running a successful student speakout on mental health, with more than 50 people in the audience!
Active Minds at Ithaca
For the second year, Active Minds at Ithaca is planning a campus-wide Stomp out Stigma Rally, complete with a cappella groups and performance clubs.
Active Minds at University of Memphis
Active Minds at the University of Memphis brought National Eating Disorder Awareness Week to their campus. Their successful programming was featured on Fox News.
Active Minds at University of Maryland
A website can be a great tool for an Active Minds chapter. Check out a fabulous example from Active Minds at UMD.
Active Minds at Towson
Towson engaged in a Healthy Living week featuring free stress ball making, yoga, smoothies, art, a body image presentation, a free hug day and an activity that allowed students to decorate cupcakes. At the events all week, students signed a pledge to start their healthy lifestyle with a mental health day on Friday
Active Minds at Western Ontario
UWO held a Silver Ribbon Campaign on Tuesday, March 24, to raise awareness of depression and anxiety disorders and destigmatize mental health.
Active Minds at Stevenson
Stevenson University invited their entire campus for a free yoga session.
Active Minds at Central Michigan
Active Minds at Central Michigan University hosted a student speaker and group member who shared her compelling story of self injury and recovery.
Active Minds at Florida Tech
Chapter president Randi Johnson published in article in her school paper about living in a “Prozac Nation”. The article ran side-by-side with an ad for upcoming Active Minds events.
Active Minds at Marquette
Marquette University invited Active Minds founder Alison Malmon to speak on their campus and the event was featured in the school paper.
Active Minds at UConn
Active Minds at University of Connecticut had a Self Injury Awareness and Prevention day last week and had games and information available in their Student Union.
Active Minds at Grinnell
Active Minds at Grinnell College is hosting a 'be a kid for a day' room on campus for students to stop by for some childhood-era stress relief activities, including coloring and Disney movies.
Active Minds at Florida Tech
Active Minds at Florida Tech was named Rising Star Student Organization of the year on their campus. The school cited several events and the ability to be so active in their first year as the deciding factors
Active Minds at
Dartmouth
Active Minds at
Dartmouth hosted Post Secret’s Frank Warren and more than 800 people attended. Additionally,the group hosted "It Happens Here, Too: Dartmouth Stories of Mental Illness" where more than 45 students shared.
Active Minds at Macalester
Active Minds at Macalester hosted a Stomp Out Stigma 5k run around campus last week, with free t-shirts and prizes for the top 5 finishers.
Active Minds at Towson
Active Minds at
Towson University hosted a ScreamFest event with 35 people in attendance. They screamed for stigma, school, personal issues, and finals.
Active Minds at Yeshiva
Active Minds at Yeshiva Univestiy held a speakout event on their campus and managed to draw 300 out of 2000 enrolled students to hear four of their peers share stories of living with mental illness.
voices
Brandy Hunter from Active Minds at University of Memphis says:
"Words can’t express the impact that Active Minds has had on me personally and professionally...I have learned to work with a wide range of people, and I have learned more about mental health issues in the past two years than I believe I ever would have if I hadn’t become a member of Active Minds. Most of all, my work with Active Minds has enabled me to openly discuss my own mental health issues."
Chapter Highlights 
Active Minds at Ramapo College
Active Minds at Oregon State
Active Minds at Flagler College
Active Minds at Oberlin College
Active Minds at Emory University
Active Minds at Southern Connecticut State University
Active Minds at Georgia Perimeter College - Decatur
Active Minds at Bowie State
Active Minds at the University of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Active Minds at Tufts University
Active Minds at Guilford College
Active Minds at the University of Pittsburgh
Active Minds at the University of Georgia
Active Minds at the Claremont Colleges
Active Minds at Northern Illinois University
Active Minds at Colby College
Active Minds at Rice University 
Active Minds at VCU
Active Minds at Roosevelt University 
Active Minds at Smith College
Active Minds at University of Colorado-Denver
Active Minds at University of North Dakota
Active Minds at Regis
Active Minds at Collin College
Active Minds at University of Toronto
Active Minds at Colby
Active Minds at Vanderbilt
Active Minds at Rutgers-Newark
Active Minds at GWU
Active Minds at Muhlenberg
Active Minds at Ursinus
Active Minds at Messiah College
Active Minds at UC Riverside
Active Minds at Misericordia
Active Minds at University of California Santa Barbara 
Active Minds at Thomas Jefferson High School
Active Minds at Florida Institute of Technology
Active Minds at Mercyhurst 
Active Minds at Dickinson 
Active Minds at Pitt-Bradford 
Active Minds at St. Ambrose 
Active Minds at WSHS 
Active Minds at UConn
Active Minds at Grinnell
Active Minds at Oregon State
Active Minds at U. of South Carolina 
Active Minds at UCLA 
Active Minds at Ithaca
Active Minds at University of Memphis 
Active Minds at Western Ontario
Active Minds at Stevenson 
Active Minds at Central Michigan
Active Minds at Grinnell
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Active Minds at Macalester
Active Minds at Towson
Active Minds at Yeshiva
"Words can’t express the impact that Active Minds has had on me personally and professionally...I have learned to work with a wide range of people, and I have learned more about mental health issues in the past two years than I believe I ever would have if I hadn’t become a member of Active Minds. Most of all, my work with Active Minds has enabled me to openly discuss my own mental health issues."
