Break the Silence

Our Mission

This page was created by Northeastern students of Active Minds at Northeastern in response to the ever-growing mental health crisis on our campus.

Our goals:

1. To create a space where the Northeastern community can speak freely about their experiences with mental illness

2. To create momentum in our campaign to improve mental health resources at Northeastern

3. To change the culture around mental health at Northeastern

4. To provide support to community members who are struggling or have struggled with their mental health

5. To fight for our community members who have lost their lives to suicide.

How it Works

First and foremost, we are not counselors or mental health clinicians. We are Northeastern students who are passionate about mental health. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please seek proper crisis resources.

This page is strictly confidential. We ensure that no moderators on our team are mandated reporters.

To share your story, please fill out the Share Your Story Form and select the option to have your story shared on our Instagram. You will be prompted to create a password that will be associated with your anonymous submission. No identifying information is requested through the form.

We monitor form submissions on a consistent basis and aim to post all submissions within 10 days of receiving them. If your submission has not been posted within ten days, please contact us through the Contact Form. Know that the moderators of this account are students who are balancing school, work, and our own mental health.

Again, all submissions are completely confidential and anonymous. You will be asked to create a passcode that is anonymously linked to your submission and will allow you to contact the moderator team if you wish to have your story removed, altered, etc. Contact us at any time using our Contact Form.

Calls For Change

We are tirelessly pushing the Northeastern administration to provide better mental health support and resources. As a group, we firmly oppose any attempts by the University to co-opt mental health into a marketing opportunity or to silence students by providing crumbs of mental health support. Our advocacy work runs through Active Minds but it is essential that we build a coalition of support across campus to fight for the needs of all students. Our work centers on the needs of BIPOC, queer, mentally ill, and disabled community members whose needs are constantly ignored by the University.

Please share your suggestions, demands, and calls for change with us via our Northeastern Call for Change form.

You can learn more about our advocacy campaigns through our site. Additionally, we call on the Northeastern administration to:

• Immediately stop plans to convert singles in East Village and International Village residence halls into doubles. Density in residence halls must be capped and students need to be provided with fair, adequate housing elsewhere.

• Allocate private, soundproof rooms on campus for students to use for telehealth services.

• End food insecurity on campus by guaranteeing 3 meals/day to all students. This was proposed by YDSA Northeastern in Spring 2021.