Youth with lived experience are our strongest partners and our greatest resource. They are experts that bring invaluable perspectives, innovative ideas, and critical feedback that informs our practice. If we want to improve our programs, policies, and practices, we must engage as many youth as we can, as often as we can. This new SchoolHouse […]
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Find Your Anchor
The premise behind Find Your Anchor is that each person needs an anchor. “Establish an anchor — a dependable, stable, secure base that you can hold on to, one that keeps you firmly planted, no matter what winds or storms may come.” Find Your Anchor doesn’t assume to be the anchor, or have all the […]
Engaging Young People in a Virtual World
This resource offers practical tips for service providers to more effectively utilize technology to engage with youth. Also included are important considerations for ensuring young people’s physical, social, and emotional safety on virtual platforms. Learn more
Send Silence Packing: Beyond the Backpacks
Active Minds’ Send Silence Packing® exhibit has traveled the country for over a decade, reaching close to a million individuals, to end the silence that surrounds mental health and suicide and connect visitors with resources for support and action. Thanks to generous support from RSM Global, Beyond the Backpacks will now complement the traveling exhibit […]
Trauma Teletherapy for Youth in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adapting Evidence Based Treatment Approaches
This guide was developed in consultation with a panel of trauma treatment providers and clinicians
National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit
The book is composed of SAMHSA’s “National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit” and related papers on crisis services. The toolkit reflects relevant clinical and health services research, review of top national program practices and replicable approaches that support best practice implementation. The related papers address key issues relevant to crisis services, […]
Supporting the Whole Student: Promising Practices for College and University Staff to Integrate Mental Health Promotion in the First College Year
The guide draws on Active Minds’ evidence-based Healthy Campus Framework as well as case studies from campuses that have been recognized for their student mental health efforts through the Active Minds Healthy Campus Award. These recommendations will give faculty and staff new tools to create a positive mental health culture on campus and a productive […]
Understanding Racial Trauma, Why it Matters, and What to Do
Offers mental health providers information on understanding cultural responsiveness to racial trauma, why it matters, and what to do. This infographic defines racial trauma and cultural responsiveness, shares the effects of racial trauma and discrimination, and offers insight into how racial trauma originated. It also includes information on what mental health providers can do to […]
Student Resilience in the Face of Challenges at California’s Community Colleges
CA Homeless Youth Project partnered with a team of graduate students from Claremont Graduate University and interviewed 20 current and former community college students who experienced housing insecurity across California. The resulting report, Student Resilience in the Face of Challenges at California’s Community Colleges, examines the many intersecting challenges that these students faced, their needs […]
Meeting Basic Needs: Customizable Resource List
The Meeting Basic Needs: Campus Planning Toolbox is designed to help administrators, staff, and faculty who are interested or engaged in planning basic needs services for their campus.