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The American Association of Geographers (AAG) Task Force on Mental Health was approved by AAG Council in fall 2014 and commenced work in early 2015 with a three-year remit to report back to Council. Its purpose is to put issues of mental health firmly onto the agenda of the AAG as an organization as well as of its members, as practitioners, scholars, and educators. The pressing need for the Task Force came from our awareness, in our professional roles as teachers, researchers, and administrators, of the increase in personal experiences of students and faculty members that fall within the realm of poor mental health, backed by the proliferating number of peer-reviewed studies which indicate that anxiety, depression, and other mental-health conditions have reached crisis proportions in the North American academy and beyond.