Active Minds, Inc. Announces its 100th Campus Chapter
at College of St. Catherine in St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota
Washington, DC -
Dec 11, 2007
As the 2007 fall semester is wrapping up for
college students across the country, Active
Minds is celebrating another historic
milestone - its 100th
campus chapter.
The College of St. Catherine in St.
Paul/Minneapolis,
Minnesota joins the Active Minds network as
its 100th national chapter. Located in the
Twin Cities, the College of St. Catherine is
the nation's largest and most comprehensive
Catholic college for
women. St. Kate's joins the University of
Minnesota at Twin Cities as just the second
campus with an Active Minds chapter in the
state of Minnesota. Active Minds' entire
network of schools includes four member of
the Ivy League, thirty-two schools
with an enrollment of over 10,000 students,
four technical schools and a law school.
Active Minds Campus Chapters
In 33 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 four
years, the campus program has engaged over a
thousand young adult mental health advocates
and reached hundreds of thousands of 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 100
campuses nationwide.
Plans are in place to expand the program to 300
college campuses by the end of 2010.
Map of Campus Chapters
About Active Minds, Inc.
Active Minds is the only national
organization dedicated to utilizing the
student voice to raise awareness about mental
health on college campuses. In fewer than
five years, Active Minds has
become the "young adult voice" in mental
health advocacy and the organizational
catalyst for awareness programs 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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