Active Minds, Inc. Announces
It's 50th Campus Chapter at Western State College in Colorado
Washington, DC -
Sep 28, 2006
Just a couple of weeks into the fall 2006 semester,
Active Minds has achieved a historic milestone - its
50th campus chapter.
Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado joins
the Active Minds network as its 50th national
chapter. A small public school in rural Colorado,
Western State College was founded in 1911 and is
known for 360 degrees of beautiful mountains
surrounding the campus. Western joins Regis
University, Colorado State University, and
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs as just one
of four campuses involved in the Active Minds
program in the state of Colorado. Active Minds? entire
network of member schools includes four members of
the Ivy League, nineteen schools with an enrollment
of over 10,000 students, and seven commuter colleges.
Active Minds on Campus
In 25 states plus the District of Columbia and
Canada, Active Minds serves as the largest resource for
college students seeking to educate their peers
about issues of mental health and mental illness. In
the past five years, the campus program has engaged
over 500 new young adult mental health advocates and
reached over 250,000 students with educational and
awareness-raising programming. Members of mental
health task forces, outspoken advocates, and
change-agents on campus, Active Minds' student
leaders are a tremendous force now on 50 campuses
nationwide.
Plans are in place to expand the program to 100
college campuses by the end of the 2006-2007 school
year.
Map of Campus Chapters
About Active Minds, Inc.
Active Minds is the nation?s only grassroots
organization dedicated to raising mental health
awareness among young adults (ages 18 ? 24) as they
transition from adolescence to adulthood ? when they
are at the peak of their emotional and mental
vulnerability. Within a span of five years, Active
Minds has become the ?young adult voice? in mental
health advocacy and the organizational catalyst for
young adult mental health awareness on college and
university campuses.
The organization was founded in 2001 by Alison
Malmon, then a junior at the University of
Pennsylvania, following the suicide of her only
sibling, twenty-two year old brother Brian Malmon a
year earlier. Troubled that her brilliant and
popular brother had struggled with depression in
silence, even though he maintained a full schedule
of extra curricular activities and a superior grade
point at Columbia University, Alison was convinced
that stigma and lack of information kept Brian from
seeking help. Determined to combat the stigma and
address the lack of awareness about mental illnesses
that most often strike young people at the pinnacle
of their educational careers, Alison launched a
program to promote mental health awareness on her
campus. Just two years later, Alison created the
501(c)3 organization which now works to promote
student advocacy and dialogue on college campuses
nationwide.
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Active Minds, Inc.
Alison Malmon
Executive Director
phone:
202-719-1177
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