Active Minds is an organization on the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater campus. They are a national, non-profit student-led mental health promotion and advocacy group. The group is open to anyone who wants to join, including staff. For more information, follow them on instagram @activemindsuww<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below is an interview with current member, Allyson Weisbrod. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. What is the main purpose of your organization?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The main purpose of Active Minds is to educate others about mental health and to end the stigma surrounding it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. How often does your organization meet? What are your meetings like or about?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The organization meets every Wednesday at 5pm. Our meetings contain educating students about mental health, promoting self-care, doing crafts and activities, and so much more!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. What is the benefit of your organization?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The benefit is mainly to be surrounded by mental health advocates who care about mental health as much as you! You are in a safe zone when in Active Minds and the continuous support it has is truly amazing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. What made you join your organization?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “I joined active minds because I am passionate about mental health!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Active Minds is an organization on the UWW campus about mental health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1259490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/involvementopportunitiesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}