The State of Youth Mental Health
In 2021, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released the Surgeon General's Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health, calling for a swift and comprehensive response to the youth mental health crisis.
rates in the last 15 years in the U.S. for youth between 10-24.
among children ages 10-14 is suicide.
and half of female students report persistent feelings of hopelessness.
living in communities lack adequate mental health services.
Join the Youth Mental Health Corps as a Partner or Sponsor
Opportunities for partnership include:
Sponsor a state-wide youth mental health corps
Sponsor the Youth Mental Health Corps in a participating state. Sponsors will enable us to increase the benefits available to the young adults serving in the Corps.
invest in non-profits hosting corps members
By 2025, there will be more than 500 Corps members serving in over 100 nonprofits and schools across the country. By supporting our programmatic infrastructure, partners will help us ensure that participating nonprofits and schools have the resources they need.
Support impact measurement for sustained change
The Youth Mental Health Corps is one of the first of its kind to be intentionally designed to benefit those who are serving as well as those who are being served. By supporting our impact measurement work, partners will help us learn and iterate to ensure we are reaching our goals.
Why We're Here
The Youth Mental Health Corps is a unified, multi-sector partnership designed to address the youth mental health crisis and the mental health workforce shortage in the United States. The Youth Mental Health Corps will consist of mental health navigators who are trusted young adults serving in select schools and communities. Its goals are to:
Meet youth where help is most acutely needed: schools, afterschool programs, community health centers, and youth centered organizations.
Offer young people interested in addressing our nation’s youth mental health crisis with an opportunity to provide peer support while obtaining quality training, skills, experiences, and credentials to start a career in behavioral health.
Increase the capacity of schools, community-based organizations, community health clinics, and behavioral health organizations to respond to the growing youth mental health crisis and provide support for the most vulnerable youth.
Share best practices on healthy social media use, digital safety and wellbeing and online safety with youth, school and community-based organizational staff, parents/care providers, and community members.
Join the Movement
Partners
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State Service Commissions
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