Mental Health Ambassadors is a peer-to-peer mental health promotion program focused on mental health awareness, resiliency, and self-care. MHAs offer programs and events throughout the year. The training and application to serve as a MHA is offered each fall, starting in September.

Dr. Robin Lanzi, Professor, Department of Health Behavior in the UAB School of Public Health, launched the Mental Health Ambassadors as her Honors College Faculty Fellows Initiative in partnership with Dr. Angela Stowe, director of Student Counseling Services, and Juhee Agrawal, honors college student.

For more information or questions, contact Dr. Robin Lanzi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Dr. Angela Stowe (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Active Minds is an organization that utilizes students’ voices to increase awareness about issues surrounding mental health, symptoms related to mental health disorders, and the mental health resources available both on campus and in the surrounding community.

To learn more about how to get involved on campus, see the Active Minds Engage site or reach out to their advisor, Josh Williams (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Student Advisory Board for Student Counseling Services The SCS Student Advisory Council seeks to unite students with the entire UAB community in order to

1. Bring awareness to student concerns of mental health on campus
2. Reduce stigma and eliminate barriers to seeking mental health support
3. Advocate for administration to develop explicit policies in support of mental health services, including training of faculty

For more information about the Student Advisory Board, please contact Dr. Angela Stowe at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Graduate Resilience Outreach & Wellness

GROW promotes connectedness, community, and support for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in order to increase help-seeking, life skills, and resiliency. Signature programs of GROW include MyStory and the monthly de-Stress Power Hour.

For more information about GROW, contact Dr. Laurence Boitet at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Student Counseling Services and the Collegiate Recovery Program host several AmeriCorps VISTAs each year. VISTAs provide essential capacity-building service to our campus through their education, communication, and outreach efforts to promote mental health, build recovery-ready community on campus, decrease stigma, and connect students to support.

For more information about VISTA opportunities at Student Counseling Services and the Collegiate Recovery Community contact Dr. Angela Stowe (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Kit Emslie (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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