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Media Coverage by and about Active Minds, Inc. (formerly called "Open Minds") For articles about individual campus chapters, see the Existing Chapters page.

• Colleges put out safety nets, USA Today, 4/15/08
• A year after Virginia Tech shootings, impact felt on campus mental health treatment, AP, 4/13/08
• Washingtonians of the Year Profiles, Washingtonian Magazine, 1/08
• On Campus, a Vow Of Non-Silence, The Washington Post, 11/6/07
• Working Women: Alison Malmon, WJLA TV, 10/12/07
• A Sister's Crusade for Help, Glamour Magazine, 10/07
• Suicide on Campus: A NY Times Documentary, New York Times Magazine , 9/30/07
• Where can college students turn for counseling?, USA Today, 9/19/07
• After Virginia Tech: A tragedy showed the risk of underestimating mental-health problems. Now schools are intervening sooner, Newsweek Magazine, 8/20/07
• Listen to Alison Malmon, founder of Active Minds, Conversations from Studio B, 6/24/07
• A Brother's Suicide Sparks a Need to Help, CNN, 5/15/07 (link may not work in Mozilla Firefox; please use Internet Explorer)
• Listen to Alison Malmon, founder of Active Minds, Wisconsin Public Radio, 5/10/07
• Saving Students (video), CNN, 4/29/07 (link may not work in Mozilla Firefox; please use Internet Explorer)
• From Brother's Death, a Crusade, New York Times, 4/25/07
• Mental Health Problems Common on College Campuses, Voice of America, 4/23/07
• Colleges Cut Parents out of the Loop on Students' Mental Health, ABC News Good Morning America, 4/19/07
• A labor of love for a lost brother, Maryland Gazette, 4/18/07
• College students seek therapy in record numbers, Seattle Post-Intelliger, 2/23/07
• Colleges Reach out to Prevent Suicides, San Francisco Chronicle, 2/5/07
• Campus Suicide Rates Drop Despite Rise in Students with Mental Illnesses, KCBS 740am, 2/4/07
• Faced with the threat of lawsuits, colleges are kicking suicidal kids off campus, People Magazine, 12/18/06
• Off to College Alone, Shadowed by Mental Illness, New York Times, 12/08/06
• Young Mental Health Advocates Hope to Educate College Students, Voice of America Television, 12/04/06
• 'Minds' Combat Mental Health Stigma, The Eagle Online, 10/30/06
• Colleges Struggle, Innovate to Meet Mental Health Needs of Students, Fox News.com, 8/29/06
• Stopping Stigma and Saving Lives, Campus Progress, 7/24/06
• Mental Health Problems Increasing Among College Students, Hartford Courant, 7/5/06
• Mental illnesses rise on college campuses: As many universities expand their psychiatric services, students help raise peer awareness, Denver Post, 4/3/06
• Active Minds: Mental Health On College Campuses, Interview with Alison Malmon, Executive Director, Instraspectus: Approachable Mental Health (Audio Podcast), 11/22/05
• Campus Group Opens Minds About Mental Illness, Psychiatric News (Newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association), 11/4/05
• Avoid Majoring in Depression: AFSP's Back to College Campaign Raises Awareness, U.S. Newswire, 10/5/05
• Suicide is One of Three Main Causes of Death Among College Students in US, Voice of America Television, 5/19/05
• Colleges Target Mental Health, The Boston Globe, 4/17/05
• College: A Troubled Student Body, BP Magazine, Winter 2005
• String Of Suicides Prompts Students, University To Take Action, WUSA 9 TV, 9/21/04
• More Help for Troubled Students, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/5/03
• From Pain to Activism: One Gutsy UPENN Woman’s Fight to End the Stigma about Mental Illnesses on College Campuses, Self-published, fall 2003
• Family Suicide Leads Student To Open Minds on Campus, Psychiatric News, 9/19/03
• NMHA Honors Maryland Student's Efforts to Prevent College Suicides, National Mental Health Association, 5/27/03
• Diverse Audience Seeks Open Minds, The Daily Pennsylvanian, 4/2/03
• Mental Health Awareness Week: Removing the Stigma (editorial), The Daily Pennsylvanian, 10/9/02
• Increasing Mental Health Awareness, The Daily Pennsylvanian, 10/8/02
• U. Students Keeping "Open Minds", The Daily Pennsylvanian, 11/12/01
• The Right to be Healthy (editorial), The Daily Pennsylvanian, 11/8/01

If you are a member of the media interested in covering mental health and suicide, find recommendations by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and SPAN-USA here

Or, Picture This: DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION

Active Minds and its founder have been recognized by the university, local, and national mental health communities:

• Rotary Club of Potomac, Maryland's Citizen of the Year (July 2008)
• Campaign for Mental Health Reform's Annual Awards Dinner Honor (April 2008)
• Washingtonian Magazine 2007 Washingtonian of the Year (January 2008)
• American Association of University Women and National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' Woman of Distinction (June 2007)
• Montgomery County Public Schools' (MD) first Distinctive Alumni Award (April 2007)
• National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression's Young Leadership Award (February 2004)
• National Mental Health Association's Tipper Gore "Remember the Children" Award (June 2003)
• Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania's Innovation Award (May 2003)
• Numerous campus awards from the University of Pennsylvania, including the Robert A. Fox Leadership Award (May 2003) and the Sol Feinstone Award (May 2002) for promoting social change in and around the campus community