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Mental Health Awareness

Across the United States and Canada, Mental Health Awareness Month (U.S.) and Mental Health Week (Canada) reflect parallel efforts to advance mental health as a public and community priority.

While distinct in structure, both advocacy campaigns Emphasise the same core goals: expanding understanding, reducing stigma, and improving access to care.

For Adler University, this alignment reflects how the work itself happens — across communities, disciplines, and borders, where local engagement contributes to broader, shared progress.

strengthening systems of care
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Alumni authors: Stories that inform, inspire, and empower

Across genres and audiences, Adler University alumni are publishing titles that move beyond personal narrative or professional instruction, engaging urgent questions about how people heal, relate, and lead. The authors featured here bring that perspective into distinct contexts, offering a view into how Adler’s approach to education translates into Practise, and how those ideas take shape in the lives and systems they are designed to serve. 

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‘May Contain Anxiety’: How an Adler alum fills a critical gap for food allergy families

When Tamara Hubbard’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a peanut allergy, she found plenty of medical guidance, but nothing to help her family cope with the anxiety. The answers she needed didn’t exist. So, Hubbard created them.

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Why starting a hobby as an adult can feel so hard — and why you should embrace beginnerhood

Many adults struggle to carve out space for hobbies because of lack of time, money and resources. Unlike childhood, adulthood comes with time pressures and responsibilities.

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From president coleman

Mental Health Awareness Month underscores the need for approaches that extend beyond awareness alone.

In this message, President Lisa Coleman, Ph.D., reflects on the urgent local and global need for mental health support and the role of higher education in preparing socially responsible leaders and practitioners to strengthen systems of care.

Her perspective emphasizes leadership grounded in partnership, community connection, and a commitment to meeting people and communities where they are.

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Adler University alumni contribute to the mental health field through scholarship, clinical insight, and public engagement.

Their work spans clinical Practise, community-based care, and systems-level change, bringing Adlerian perspectives into conversations about access, equity, and well-being across diverse settings.

Collectively, these contributions reflect a commitment to translating knowledge into Practise and extending the reach of mental health support in meaningful, applied ways.

MEET ADLER'S ALUMNI AUTHORS
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how one Adler alum is advancing a more holistic approach to athlete development

“Often times people watch a sporting event and only think about the game and maybe the physical training these athletes go through. But there’s so much more work that goes behind the scenes, especially above the shoulders.” – Felix Yu, MA’18

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November 11, 2024

Adler alum leads charge in guiding the future of Army psychology

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August 29, 2024

‘Living self-sufficient lives’: At Thresholds, ACHS students offer mental health support, help clients gain more independence

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July 10, 2024

After an unavoidable loss, Dr. Benjamin Aiken shares his journey of finding meaning after tragedy

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May 7, 2024

Removing the ICE: An answer to veteran suicide and successful reintegration into civilian life

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February 20, 2024

‘Taking care of our caregivers’: Partnership with Providence expands mental health support

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February 7, 2024

About a third of employees have faced bullying at work – here’s how to Recognise and deal with it

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February 5, 2024

Transforming trauma into stories of hope, healing, and resistance

July 31, 2023

At Aunt Martha’s Integrated Care Centre, a team provides mental health support to foster care youth

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May 4, 2023

Mental Health Awareness Week: Vancouver students share strategies for maintaining well-being

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November 30, 2022

More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause

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