OUR STORY

DMAX Foundation is about inspiring conversations that connect through the power of peer-based support and storytelling. Our Five Core Values of vulnerability, authenticity, truth-telling, resilience, and solidarity build upon one another to serve the hallmark of healthy connectedness and relationships.

We do more than advocacy – we empower participants in our flagship DMAX Clubs and Foundation-level programming to inspire their greater communities to normalize honest conversations about their own mental health. Your support facilitates:

Resource Development

As a Foundation, we respond to the current cultural moment. Our resources such as Having Conversations with Pride and the upcoming Body Positivity Guide that we share with DMAX Members aim to put those skills learned through peer-based support in action on tough topics.

DMAX Clubs

DMAX Clubs are trusting spaces for that healing storytelling to take place. These truly student-led spaces for honest conversations about what’s really going on do more than help students weather the ordinary challenges of college life; they instill them with vital conversational, relational, life, and leadership skills that will equip them to have deep meaningful conversations throughout their lives. We have a list of 11 partner campuses and are actively expanding that reach.

Nights In & Days Out with DMAX!
Nights In provide a low-stakes environment where DMAX Members can connect with one another via virtual games and relaxing music while having fun and relaxing for a few hours. Days Out bring the Foundation closer to our Club communities via fun regional events like scavenger hunts.

DMAX Students Speak!

DMAX Students Speak! (DSS) is our popular storytelling series in which college students share their mental health journeys with a virtual audience. This event is an empowering and healing act for the storyteller that also encourages others to use their mental health stories as a tool, as well. Many people new to DMAX say that a DSS event was the “aha!” moment when they connected the dots and really got what DMAX was all about. DSS speakers share compelling stories of grit and resilience that have sustained them during periods of anxiety, isolation, or depression.

DMAX Leadership Forum

It is often forgotten that the workplace directly affects an individual’s mental health. The DMAX Leadership Forum was launched in 2018 as a way to bring together student leaders and corporate leaders to discuss mental health initiatives in the workplace. This intergenerational think-tank, grounded in the inclusive dynamic of DMAX Clubs, features participants sharing their own mental health stories and exploring how companies can become “employers of choice” for DMAX Club leaders after they graduate.

Stories, Not Just Talk

By DMAX FOUNDATION

Stories, Not Just Talk

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