Stockton Active Minds Club and Campus Care partner up to bring the IMALIVE mental health fair to the Stockton community. Written for The Argo by Samantha Flatten. GALLOWAY, N.J. - On Tuesday, October 13. from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M., Stockton's Active Minds Club hosted the IMALIVE mental health awareness fair, which brought mental health games, fact-or-fiction situations, and "share a secret" stations to the Campus Center lobby. The Stockton Active Minds club partnered with Campus Care, a grant-funded program that brings mental health wellness to colleges across New Jersey. Campus Care staff noted that they "offer services to 50 different schools and directly partner with IMALIVE". IMALIVE is a traveling mental health fair that partners with companies such as Campus Care to educate the public about warning signs, suicide prevention, and overall awareness of mental illnesses. Along with hosting traveling mental health fairs such as this, they "'offer care sessions in regards to just different topics that are areas of concern for students'". Most of their mental health resources are based on relevant student survey results about top mental health concerns. This way students are getting the most highly updated resources firsthand. Along with the helpful resources and ongoing care, the number one thing that Campus Cares recommends to students who may be struggling is to always remember that you are never alone and help is always available. This at its core means that no one, no matter the struggle, needs to fight alone. Campus Care also shared that if you or someone you know is struggling but does not know where to go for specific help, that going to your local counseling center, whether that be at a health facility or school centers, is the first step to getting better. Additionally, 988, the suicide prevention and crisis hotline, is always active to not only reserved for suicidal situations. Anyone in need of support or just needs someone to reach out to, is able to utilize the hotline. Stockton's Active Minds club shows through this event that mental health is not an overwhelming situation to be afraid of, but a necessary topic that everyone can relate to.

World Reborn partners with Active Minds and Wellious to activate IRL peer mental health support nationwide. A mobile game that players say helps them with depression, stress, and even thoughts of suicide is teaming up with teen mental health experts to spur irl action nationwide for World Mental Health Day. Washington, DC - October 10, 2026 - Wicked Saints Studios, in partnership with Active Minds and Wellious, today launches the #ASKbetter challenge on its flagship platform World Reborn. For World Mental Health Day, the gaming for good platform and national teen mental health non-profit, supported by Wellious, a clean plant-based protein company, are joining forces to give teens and young adults simple tools to normalize mental health conversations with their friends and family. "We are proud to partner with Wicked Saints Studios for the #ASKbetter challenge on World Reborn," said Kimberly Cooper, Chief Marketing Officer at Active Minds. "Opening up about mental health breaks down stigma, yet 70% of students say they don't know how to help a friend. Active Minds brings our expertise in peer support to this collaboration with this gamified approach to teach participants A.S.K. - Acknowledge, Support, Keep in Touch. Together, we're helping youth and young adults carry these practical skills into everyday conversations so more friends feel heard and supported." Together, Wicked Saints and Active Minds partnered to create the #ASKbetter challenge. Kobe Garner, VP of the Active Minds chapter at Albany State University, appears in World Reborn to guide players through the basics of Active Minds' A.S.K. platform for peer mental health support. A.S.K. encourages young people to Acknowledge their friends' feelings, Support them through tough times, and Keep in Touch to keep checking in. "You never know what somebody's going through, and the happiest person in the room can be the saddest person out," explains Garner, a student at HBCU Albany State. "If you don't ask, you'll never know. I try to ask and to be that supportive role. Cause shoot, I used to want that." Players join the #ASKbetter challenge by committing to support a friend or family member using A.S.K., creating an A.S.K. sign to remind them, and sharing their commitment to #ASKbetter among their social networks, encouraging more young people to join the challenge. Ultimately, the goal is to support young people to have authentic conversations about their mental health with friends and family. "Wellious was born out of my own health struggles," said Sean Hall, founder of Wellious. "And while we are dedicated to building a better food system, our ultimate mission is to build a healthier and happier world. We know that mental health is as important as any health, and we're honored to support good causes like this." Backed by Riot Games, the Black, female-led Wicked Saints Studios is the brainchild of CEO Jessica Murrey, an Emmy-award winning storyteller and international peacebuilder, together with a behavioral science researcher and a former senior engineer at Pokémon GO. These three women teamed up to build games and experiences that employ behavioral technology to empower young people to build real-life skills and create real change. World Reborn is their flagship activation platform, blending fantasy story gaming with real-world changemakers to challenge players with bite-sized real-world actions to improve their lives and communities. Designed to boost each person's self-belief, the game is backed by behavioral science and positive psychology. "We want young people to know that they are already strong," says Murrey. "They already have unique strength that the world needs. Our game just helps reveal those strengths and how they can use them to better their reality." Since its launch in May 2026, World Reborn has already proven to activate its players to improve their lives and world. With over 50,000 installs, World Reborn maintains a 4.7 rating on the App Store. Players have written over 13.5K custom notes to hospitalized children for Starlight Children's Foundation. 95% of players in the in-game survey (n=268) say the real-world training makes them 'feel good', with the top feelings being inspired (84%), happy (56%), and proud (54%). Overall, WR players have taken 46.5K real-world actions, such as 3.4K practicing engaging across dividing lines, 2.6K learning and sharing resources about stopping misinformation, 1.3K saving Crisis Text Line info to their phones, and 755 volunteering time with younger kids in the real world. Previous mental health activation #CrisisAverted, powered by CrisisTextLine and Discord, has spurred positive feedback from players. Players have expressed that the game has built their confidence, helped them deal with mental health struggles, and encouraged them to believe in their power in a world that often feels out of control. One player privately reached out to the Wicked Saints team to share: "Hey world reborn. I wanted to say your game has helped me with a lot of my mental issues like suicide and other things happening in my life. Tbh I see myself as one of the characters in the game and it helps me. Just. Thank you so much for helping me." Despite some improvement since pandemic-level highs, 1 in 3 young people still feel persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, a trend that has worsened since 2015 according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (report). According to Active Minds' own data, young people want to support their friends through these feelings, but 70% said they don't know how. Active Minds was founded by Alison Malmon when she was a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, following the suicide of her older brother Brian. At Penn, Malmon saw that no one was talking about mental health issues, although many were affected. 1 in 5 students lives with a mental health condition, but stigma and shame were preventing students from reaching out. Malmon wanted young people to start talking about it, to combat the stigma of mental illness, encourage students who needed help to seek it early, and prevent future tragedies like the one that took her brother's life. Active Minds now has over 500+ chapters in high schools and colleges across the country, where they encourage young people to become mental health advocates. People interested in joining the #ASKbetter challenge can download the game on the Apple App Store. A trailer for the game can be seen here. About Wicked Saints Wicked Saints is the Black female-led video game studio that employs behavioral technology to empower Gen Z to build real-life skills. First to emerge from Niantic's (makers of Pokémon GO) BDI incubator, Wicked Saints' flagship game and platform World Reborn blends the "real" and "digital" worlds, so players' mastery of in-game skills can be used to create real change in their lives and communities. With experience inside and outside of gaming, the Wicked Saints team is world-class in their fields; grassroots campaign building and behavioral science expertise complement Emmy award-winning writing with gaming design and artistry from legacies like Entergalactic, Stranger Things: Tales From '85, Pokémon Go, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Marvel, Square Enix, and more. About Active Minds Active Minds is the largest nonprofit in the United States mobilizing a youth-led movement that is changing how Wicked Saints think about, talk about, and support mental health. For more than 20 years, Wicked Saints has equipped the next generation of peer mental health advocates through a variety of programs, including the Active Minds Chapter Network, A.S.K., and Send Silence Packing. Its advocacy, initiatives, and campaigns foster lasting change in how youth view and discuss mental health, encouraging them to use their voices to influence broader conversations and inform mental health supports within their communities. Together, Wicked Saints is building a diverse movement of champions committed to improving mental health for all. To learn more about Active Minds, visit activeminds.org. About Wellious Wellious is a brand that believes in real nutrition from real food. They make a 4-ingredient protein powder that has zero junk, is 100% plant-based, and tastes incredible. They have quickly become one of the fastest-growing products in their category and are proving that a better food system is possible. Wellious partners with Adrenaline Interactive on immersive product experiences.