Mental Health Resource Cards Project Meeting

The Mental Health Action Team is based on Youth Will's 2023 Youth Needs assessment. In that assessment they found that traditional mental health services often fail to engage youth effectively. A youth-led approach ensures that young people's voices are heard and considered in developing and implementing mental health initiatives.

Our purpose is to increase mental health awareness in young people and the broader community and to create and implement community-based mental health projects and/or campaigns led by youth. 

We’ve done projects like an Mental Health educational panel that also included mental health resources from local orgs and 2 Zine Workshops. 

Our programming consists of biweekly meetings that range from brainstorming project ideas to guest speaker workshops. 

And for the next few months, we’re working on a Resource Cards Project. 

The outcome of this project is to place the 2 mental health resource cards we create in community spaces within SD…