By Ethan Hartley

As a junior at East Providence High School, Hope Moran experienced a darkness that untold numbers of peers within her generation encounter.

“I had a pretty rough patch my junior year,” Moran, now a senior, said during a recent interview. “Thankfully, I have an amazing family. So I thought, ‘Wow. You can understand how people can spiral so low.’ … We go to a massive school, so there's a lot of kids that struggle with it.”

Moran turned her own personal lesson with the volatile nature of mental health and turned it into action, setting in motion a series of events that resulted in the creation of a local, East Providence chapter of a national nonprofit organization called Active Minds, which strives to provide a support network to young people to be able to discuss, collab

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