Teens4TeensHelp

 
Our mission is to help teens find hope, health, and recovery from mental health and emotional challenges.

Our teens and young adults are suffering from a mental health crisis. Currently 60% of teens are suffering from anxiety or depression and over 1 in 4 are having thoughts of suicide. We lose 20 young people a day.

We were compelled to make a difference and created this non-profit to help others and better our world. We designed it to reach it’s audience by delivering the message via other teens and young adults, on their preferred medium – online video.

All our content is reviewed by our professional advisory board and our informational videos are researched by our University partners. Everything then goes through our teen advisory board to make sure if works for them in both style and content.

We are seeking funding to grow our content, programs, and outreach. We are connecting with Orange County schools and mental health organizations. We will expand our project from Orange County to Southern California.

Our top accomplishments from last year include:
1. Added 40 videos, 4 new categories, added content and coping skills
2. Reached over 12000 individuals on website.
3. Collaborations with Peer Voices of OC, Northwestern University's Lab for Scalable Mental Health, UCSF, many treatment centers, schools, and mental health professionals.
4. Grew our Youth Advisory Board to over 90 and created 3 committees and a live presentations for them to share with their schools and communities.
5. Attend 7 community mental health events in OC and Southern California.
6. Continued our TeenTalk series where teens interview professionals on a mental health topic and grew our video library to over 130 videos.
7. Have distributed Healthy Coping Skills Toolbox to several high school wellness rooms.
8. Participated in media, local newscast on KSBY, and podcast with Frank Blake of Crazy Good Turns

Here’s some of the feedback we’re getting:
"This is an amazing website! I’m super impressed and honestly touched. You’re going to help a tremendous amount of people with it and save lives without a doubt!" - K. England, MFT

"Teens4TeensHelp can truly be the difference in a teen’s life - it provides all the support and possible resources a teen may need when struggling. It really can be the greatest impact to a teen.
-Ariel B., age 17”

“I only wish that when I was 15, I had access to the resources you are creating now for teens. - Marjorie White”

Our Key goals this year are to:
1. Develop more media and cover new categories, System Impacted Youth, Intimate Partner Violence, Trauma, and Heartbreak/Grief.
2. To expand our reach with Orange County Unified School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, and Universities.
3. To increase funding through grants, partnerships, celebrity endorsements, and corporate sponsors.
4. To fund our youth board for in school and community presentations
5. To get more healthy coping skills toolboxes into underserved schools

Our 5 most pressing needs are:

1. Fund our youth board in school and community presentations
2. Staffing - PT IT manager and FT Youth Board Manger
3. Create more content and categories
4. Translate site and healthy coping skills toolboxes into Spanish
5. Create youtube Channel

Orange County and Southern California and eventually the nation.

It was the worst day of my life. I remember thinking this can't be happening as I drove my daughter to the ER while trying to hold together her bleeding arm. That was near the beginning of our journey to recovery that would take years and is still in progress. It's also the reason I get up every day to see how I can help other teens and young adults and their families heal and recover from their difficult problems.

Our teens are the canary in the coal mine, our society has a big problem that needs to be addressed if we are going to continue to have productive members of society. It is vital that we don’t lose this generation and the next that has had to face so much. Helping teens now will help prevent a cascade of negative outcomes, that impact every community -like school drop outs, addiction, crime, homelessness and more.

By providing them with hope, information, and resources we help them heal and develop their character, and become contributing members of society. They need our support and we need your support to help them. Thank You.