Active Minds, Inc.

Mental Health Advocacy Academy applications are open! Are you a high schooler (or know a high schooler) who deeply cares about mental health advocacy and wants to turn it into tangible change in their community? Apply or send them this post! Through interactive virtual sessions, discussions, mentorship, and hands-on activities, students: 🧠 explore the mental health challenges impacting their communities 💪 while learning how advocacy can create meaningful change IRL Students do not need prior advocacy experience to apply. Applications close September 13th. Apply: https://lnkd.in/etA3uz77

Happy Friday! This is your reminder, and mine too, that you are enough. Exactly as you are, right now, today. Not enough because of what you got done this week, or how many boxes you checked. Just enough, simply because you’re here, trying. I know how easy it is to feel like rest and peace have to be earned. They don’t. You don’t have to prove anything to deserve grace, or a moment to breathe. To anyone carrying more than they’re letting on: I see you. You are still enough.💚 Active Minds, Inc. We Are Enough LLC #YouAreEnough #ActiveMinds #Community #MentalHealthMatters #HappyFriday #Reminder

I am so excited and honored to announce that I have accepted an internship for the Mental Health Advocacy Institute with Active Minds, Inc. ! ✨ I have always wanted to be a part of Active Minds in some capacity since high school, and am beyond grateful for this opportunity to create change with their guidance at my university, Long Beach State. Looking forward to our first session later this month. Thank you to Markie Pasternak, M.S.Ed. for this opportunity. 🤗

Supporting students in a time like this can be heavy. We want to help. With support from Google, Active Minds' Program Fund makes it easy for teachers to bring turnkey mental health supports to their schools that help youth: 🤝 build understanding 💪 take action 🧠 become youth mental health advocates Learn more about the Program Fund and apply: https://bit.ly/4w46akS

Our Campus Lifeline Act has been introduced to the Senate and youth advocates led the way! We now have our bill in both chambers! Just weeks after our inaugural Hill Day + Conference, where nearly 200 youth and young adult mental health advocates from across the nation came together on Capitol Hill, our Campus Lifeline Act has been introduced to the Senate with co-sponsors Senators Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), David McCormick (R-PA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Pete Ricketts (R-NE). This bipartisan and bicameral effort is one built on years of dedication and a generation of young people with a mission. Mental health advocacy is more than awareness – it’s action. The Campus Lifeline Act was born a decade ago as a student-led idea from an Active Minds Chapter at the University of Dayton. After years of development and support from our network it’s been given life on the federal level as a bill in both the House and the Senate with bipartisan support. The Campus Lifeline Act: 🪪 Moves to make putting 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, on the back of all student ID cards in k-12. 💪 Calls for access to crisis services to be complemented by youth prevention and early intervention services. With the additional requirement of GLS Campus applicants to seek input from students and student-led mental health groups on campus it enhances the grants ability to reach students in need of support. This more than a moment. It's a movement. Take action by calling your legislators in congress today to show support for The Campus Lifeline Act – policy for youth and young adults made by youth and young adults. Contact your congressmen at this link: https://lnkd.in/ezfxR4bQ

72% of schools can’t access professional mental health resources due to limited funding. With support from Google, we’re changing that by bringing expert-led mental health resources, tools, and experiential programming where they are needed most, regardless of disparities and limited funding. "Active Minds has provided a vital platform for engaging our student body in the importance of self-care and supporting one another." Learn about our Active Minds Program Fund to bring our mental health programs to your school or community: https://lnkd.in/eHJZRmdd

Hello LinkedIn family- I am extremely excited to announce that this November I will be running the 2026 Philadelphia Marathon as a member of Team Active Minds, Inc.‼️ 🏃 Active Minds is the largest nonprofit in the United States mobilizing youth and young adults to transform mental health norms across society 😃 For more than 20 years, Active Minds has equipped the next generation of peer mental health advocates through a variety of programs. Their advocacy, initiatives, and campaigns foster lasting change in how youth view and discuss mental health. Together, we are building a diverse movement of champions committed to improving mental health for all. As someone who greatly understands the importance of every persons mental health, especially bettering your mental health through physical activity, I couldn’t be happier to be running this race with an organization like Active Minds 🏃 I am asking you LinkedIn family to please help me reach (and surpass) my donation goal of $1,500 🙏Any donation matters and makes a difference no matter if it’s $1 or $1,000 Thank you all so much for your generosity and let the countdown to November 22nd begin! Donation link: https://lnkd.in/evG57TWH

Missed our Active Minds Hill Day + Mental Health Conference? 🧠 🏛️ Read about it here: https://lnkd.in/exef5iVy