Active Minds Inc

Active Minds in K-12 Schools: Active Minds is exponentially growing in K-12 schools, bringing chapter programming, trainings, and youth mobilization models to students and their adult allies in high schools and middle schools. 704 K-12 schools used Active Minds programing in 2024-2025.

Public Education and Awareness Campaigns: Active Minds has created Awareness Campaigns for our chapters, partners, and supporters such as A-S-K, Suicide Prevention Month, and Stress Less Week. During these programs, students and community members are introduced to mental health topics that are often misunderstood. By educating through innovative and relevant means including existing student networks (ie fraternities and sororities, honor societies, athletics), a comprehensive website at www.activeminds.org, digital means including Slack, and an interactive presence on social media, Active Minds aims to raise public consciousness and change the way mental health issues are understood and publicly approached. In 2024-2025, more than 1,000 campuses and communities ran Active Minds Public Education and Awareness Campaigns.

Active Minds Speakers: Research shows that the best way to break stigma around mental health is through personal contact. As a result, Active Minds has recruited and trained 22 professional speakers to tell their stories around mental health in an engaging, educational, and powerful manner. Members of Active Minds Speakers travel the country and/or provide virtual presentations, at high schools, colleges, and workplaces; to parents and administrators; and at conferences and national events throughout the year. In 2024-2025, the Active Minds Speakers held 133 speaking engagements both in person and virtually.

Send Silence Packing, suicide awareness program: Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young adults, and each one of those deaths touches us all. Send Silence Packing is an award-winning exhibit of donated backpacks representing the young adult lives lost to suicide every year, complemented with a digital Behind the Backpacks experience. Active Minds has collected backpacks and personal stories in memory or in honor of loved ones impacted by suicide. Send Silence Packing carries the message that preventing suicide is not just about lowering statistics, but also about saving the lives of students, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters and friends.

Your Voice is Your Power and Transform Your Campus Policy Change Campaigns: By mobilizing the next generation to use their voice and their experiences to change policy and build the next generation of the workforce, we are making lasting change in the mental health landscape for years to come. Nearly 200 high schools, colleges, and universities engaged in the Transform Your Campus and Your Voice is Your Power advocacy trainings,and hundreds of youth engaged with Cause and Career workforce development in 2024-2025.