While each chapter is different, the membership blurs the lines between students with mental illness; students with friends or family members living with mental illness; and a smattering of psychology students, social workers and nurses. On each campus, Active Minds has tables offering materials on mental health often the same materials available at the counseling center, Ms. Malmon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Penn, incorporated Active Minds, and became the youngest recipient of the Tipper Gore Remember the Children Award from the National Mental Health Association. Every week brings inquiries about starting chapters, most recently from students or staff members at Arizona State University , Luzerne County Community College in Pennsylvania, the University of Central Florida and Humboldt State University in California. read more

Technorati Tags: mental, illness, minds, students, active, malmon, anxiety disorder news