Active Minds on Campus is a student-run organization/club dedicated to providing information and awareness of mental health issues

Facts about Active Minds

• Utilize peer outreach
• National organization
• Only chapter in the state of Texas

Active Minds was founded in 2001 by Alison Malmon, then a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, following the suicide of her other brother, Brian, one year earlier. Alison wanted to combat the stigma of mental illness, encourage students who needed help to seek it early, and prevent future tragedies like the one that took her brother's life.

For more information regarding this organization, check out the Active Minds website: www.activeminds.org

 

Events on Campus

Stress Relief event that included free music, food and massages to help relieve stress prior to finals. Animals were also brought in by the Laguna Madre Humane Society to help relieve students' stress and were available for adoption.