Empowering Students, the Active Minds Club Promotes Mental Health Awareness and Support
Author Annie B. Milostan ’25 is a Baking and Pastry Arts Major
One of the amazing clubs we have here on campus that helps support students is the Active Minds Club. I met up with the club President and Co-founder Grace Earley, Hospitality Management ’25, to talk a little bit more about the club.
Active Minds is a nationwide organization that de-stigmatizes mental health in high schools and colleges and the Culinary Institute of America is a chapter of that organization. Our club focuses on mental health in the hospitality industry and providing students with resources regarding mental health. I am one of the founders of the Active Minds club. When I started at CIA, I was lost on who to reach out to regarding mental health, specifically for me, homesickness. During my fourth semester, I was approached by someone who wanted to start a mental health club. I saw that as an opportunity to be able to share resources for students as well as my personal experience with mental health. I am a Hospitality Management major, and I am very passionate about advocacy. Anyone can join our club—we do not discriminate, as mental health affects everyone, especially those who work in our industry. We always host an instructor panel every semester where we invite our chefs and professors to speak about their experience with mental health. Upcoming, we are partnering with the Outdoors Club to do a campus-wide scavenger hunt for a chance to win a Mystery Golden Egg! We are also doing a Gratitude Tree, which will be in The Egg for the month of November as well as giving away cookies in December!
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