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Nonprofits: 162

7 Cups

The 7 Cups Foundation is in the business of changing and shaping lives. The work we do at our Non-Profit Organization is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges. We make sure our partners are empowered by creating opportunities for individuals and communities.
  • Extend Care Around The Globe
  • Revenue: <$500K
  • Fort Mill, SC
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (83-0727255)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: NR
  • Tax Exempt Since: 2020
  • Serving: Global
  • Keywords: Free Emotional Support, Online Therapy, Licensed Therapists, 24/7 Chat, Mental Health Community, Support Groups, Self-help Guides, Growth Paths, Teen Support, Confidentiality, Affordable Therapy, Volunteer Listeners, Crisis Response, Mental Health Advocacy
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A New Leaf

A New Leaf is dedicated to helping families, children, and adults in our community facing challenges of all kinds. Whether it be the loss of a job, a medical crisis, domestic violence, homelessness, or another heartbreaking crisis, A New Leaf is here to help households recover and thrive.
  • Crisis Services for Families, Children & Adults
  • Revenue: $25M - $50M
  • Mesa, AZ
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (86-0256667)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: Platinum
  • Tax Exempt Since: 1972
  • Serving: Community
  • Keywords: Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Housing Stability, Health Services, Family Support, Financial Empowerment, Foster Care Early Childhood Education, Community Support, Volunteer Opportunities, Tax Assistance, Survivor Services, Resilience, Building, Empowerment Programs
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Active Minds

Mission: Changing the conversation about mental health.
Dedicated to saving lives and to building stronger families and communities. Through education, research, advocacy, and a focus on young adults ages 14–25, Active Minds is opening up the conversation about mental health and creating lasting change in the way mental health is talked about, cared for, and valued in the United States.
  • Young Adult Mental Health
  • Revenue: $10M - $15M
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (20-0587172)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: Platinum
  • Tax Exempt Since: 2004
  • Serving: National
  • Keywords: Mental Health Advocacy, Youth Empowerment, Campus Programs, Stigma Reduction, Community Support, Mental Health Education, Peer Support, Wellness Initiatives, Public Speaking, Resource Hub, Volunteer Opportunities, Mental Health Awareness, School-Based Programs, Workplace Wellness
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AIM Youth Mental Health

Mission: Bridging the gap between research and access to care for youth struggling with their mental health by finding, funding, and implementing evidence-based treatments, empowering youth to discover their own mental health solutions, and training caring adults to create safe communities where children can grow and thrive.
  • Youth Mental Health
  • Revenue: $250K - $1M
  • Carmel, CA
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (47-3992060)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: Platinum
  • Tax Exempt Since: 2016
  • Serving: National
  • Keywords: Youth Mental Health, Evidence-Based Treatments, Empowering Youth, Mental Health Research, Access to Care, Crisis Support, Safe Communities, Mental Health First Aid, Awareness Campaigns, Design Challenges, Peer Support, Resilience Building, Family Involvement, Educator Resources
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Amal Alliance

We believe that we are all global citizens with a social and moral responsibility to ensure that all children have access to the fundamental skills needed to reach their full potential. We seek to engage systems that affect displaced and disenfranchised children by offering holistic, evidenced-based interventions. Our whole child approach stimulates the mind and body through education and integration programs that focus on social emotional learning and address trauma at its root cause.
  • Displaced and Disenfranchised Children
  • Revenue: $250K - $1M
  • Wilmington, DE
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (82-0618872)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: Platinum
  • Tax Exempt Since: 2017
  • Serving: National
  • Keywords: Displaced Children, Social Development, Education Programs, Trauma-Informed Care, Holistic Approach, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Skills, Peaceful Communities, Mindfulness Practices, Play Therapy, Micro and Macro Interventions, United Nations Partnerships, National Governments, International NGOs
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Ambition Angels

Ambition Angels is on a mission to scale youth development through technology.
The Ambition app is a tool for everyday thriving, empowering teens to take their personal development into their own hands.
  • Mental Health for Black and Brown Teens
  • Revenue: <$250K
  • Palo Alto, CA
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (87-2513010)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: Silver
  • Tax Exempt Since: 2023
  • Serving: National
  • Keywords: Empowerment, Black and Brown Teens, Life Skills, Career Readiness, Personal Development, Digital Learning, Mobile App Skill-Building Courses, Social-Emotional Learning, Goal Setting, Budgeting, Mindset, Community Support, Nonprofit Organization
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American Association of Suicidology

Mission: To promote the understanding and prevention of suicide and support those who have been affected by it.
Vision: We are an inclusive community that envisions a world where people know how to prevent suicide and find hope and healing.
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Revenue: $1M - $5M
  • Hummelstown, PA
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (95-2930701)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: Platinum
  • Tax Exempt Since: 1974
  • Serving: National
  • Keywords: Suicide Prevention, Mental Health Advocacy, Research and Education, Crisis Support, Training and Certification, Community Resources, Survivor Support, Policy Development, Public Awareness, Lived Experience, 988 Lifeline, Crisis Intervention, Support Groups, Mental Health First Aid, Suicide Awareness
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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Mission: Save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide.
Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Revenue: $25M - $50M
  • New York, NY
  • Impact Report
  • Financials (13-3393329)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: Gold
  • Tax Exempt Since: 1991
  • Serving: National
  • Keywords: Suicide Prevention, Mental Health Advocacy, Research and Education, Crisis Support, Training and Certification, Community Resources, Survivor Support, Public Policy, Awareness Campaigns, Lived Experience, 988 Lifeline, Healing Conversations, Volunteer Opportunities, National Events
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American Institute for Boys & Men

Vision: We envision a world where all Americans are able to achieve their full potential and are celebrated–at home, at work, and in their communities–for their unique talents and contributions.
Through research and policy design, we’re dedicated to the flourishing of boys and men, while emphasizing support for those navigating particular challenges, including Black boys and men and working-class boys and men.

Anxiety and Depression Association of America

Mission: To prevent, treat, and cure anxiety disorders and depression.
ADAA improves the quality of life for those who suffer through evidence-based educational resources, professional practice, and scientific research. ADAA’s promise is to raise awareness about the impact of mental health on physical health, to find new treatments, and one day prevent and cure anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders.

Arizona Coalition to End Sexual & Domestic Violence

Mission: To end sexual and domestic violence in Arizona by dismantling oppression and promoting equity among all people.
What We Do: Statewide coalition addressing sexual and domestic violence. We offer education & training, technical assistance, public policy advocacy, collaboration, and the Arizona Sexual and Domestic Violence Helpline.

Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation

Mission: Creates opportunities to build self-esteem and empower children and youth in foster care by funding services to enrich their life experiences and ensure their successful transition to adulthood.
What We Do: For more than 40 years, Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation has been changing the story of children and youth in foster care. What started out as a simple idea – that being a child should not have to hurt – has evolved into an organization that helps kids experience moments of joy, achieve self-sufficiency and tap into their potential.

Arizona Youth Partnership (AYP)

Mission: Build solid foundations for youth and families by partnering with Arizona communities to provide youth services, prevention programs and health education related to substance abuse, homelessness, human trafficking, mental health wellness, teen pregnancy, and challenging family dynamics.
Vision: We envision a future of: empowered youth; strong, stable families; thriving communities

Arizona's Children Association

Mission: To protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
Vision: Our vision is that every Arizona family has the resources and support needed to be safe, strong and resilient.

Asian Mental Health Collective

Mission: AMHC normalizes and de-stigmatizes mental health within the Asian community.
Vision: AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.

Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.

Mission: To promote healing of children impacted by trauma by supporting their families, schools, and communities.
Where It Began: In 1995, three mothers, who were parenting children diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder were connected by their children’s therapist. The goal was to support each other, and as they realized how similar their journeys were and that they truly were “Not Alone,” ATN was born.

Be A Leader Foundation

Mission: To Increase the number of students who are prepared for and succeed in higher education by empowering them with tools, leadership skills and consistent support,transforming lives and creating life-long opportunities for success.
Vision: All students have the opportunity to succeed in higher education and have the skills and resources to ensure personal success.

Blanchet House of Hospitality

Mission: To alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity.
About: Blanchet (pronounced Blan-shāy) House is a nonprofit social services organization located in Old Town Portland. We make a difference, one relationship at a time, through food, clothing, and supportive housing programs. We serve anyone who comes to our doors without judgment because we believe everyone deserves dignity, hope, and community.

Bloom365

Mission: To prevent abuse BEFORE it starts.
Vision: Safe and healthy relationships for all—in a world free of interpersonal violence.

Born This Way Foundation

Mission: Supports youth mental health and works with young people to build a kinder and braver world.
Vision: Aims to make kindness cool, validate the emotions of young people, and eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health.

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Mission: Committed to alleviating the suffering caused by mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research.
Vision: To dramatically improve the lives of those with mental illness and ultimately enable people to live full, happy, and productive lives.

Bring Change to Mind

Mission: To end the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness. Read on to learn more.
Vision: We create multimedia campaigns, curate storytelling movements, and develop youth programs to encourage a diverse cultural conversation around mental health.

California Children's Trust

The California Children’s Trust is committed to working together to reinvent our state’s approach to children’s social, emotional, and developmental health. We are a statewide initiative that seeks to improve child well-being through policy and systems reform.

Calmer Choice

Mission: Cultivating Awareness. Living Mindfully. Enhancing Resilience.
Vision: We envision a world where…People lead lives of kindness and compassion toward themselves and others. Young people learn skills to cope with the pressures of the world around them. Schools integrate mindfulness into their cultures.

Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP)

Mission: To create a healthy, just, resilient, and trauma-informed society where all individuals, families, and communities have the social, political, cultural, economic, and spiritual opportunities and support necessary to thrive.
Vision: Envisions a future where individuals, families, organizations, communities, and systems stand empowered to realize their full potential.

Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Mission: To expand access to quality, evidence-based youth mental health care as quickly as possible.
Vision: CCAMH exists to expand access to quality, evidence-based youth mental health care as quickly as possible. To us, it’s about access.

Center for Health and Recovery (formerly CHEEERS)

Mission: We strive to empower individuals and families affected by behavioral health conditions to achieve a healthy and meaningful life through the use of recovery-based community services and our shared experiences. Our program is designed around the belief and knowledge that individual’s health through connection and emotional health and physical health are interconnected. CHR programs empower individuals with the skills needed to maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle in our community. Our staff is here to help individual overcome the barriers that keep them from benefiting from services, finding employment, housing and recovery.

Center for Healthy Minds (Healthy Minds Innovations)

Mission: To cultivate well-being and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the mind.
Vision: Envision a day when mental exercise will be as much a part of our daily lives as physical exercise and personal hygiene.

Change Your Brain Change Your Life Foundation

Mission: To end mental illness by tarting a revolution in brain health.
Vision: Dedicated to ending mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health.

Child Mind Institute

About: The Child Mind Institute is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need to thrive.
We’re the leading independent nonprofit in children’s mental health, operating three Mission Areas that work together for greater impact: Care, Education and Science.

Children Now

Mission: To build power for kids.
Together, we can generate the power needed to create change for kids. Let’s break down the barriers that stand in the way of kids reaching their full potential.

Children's Defense Fund

Mission:To build community so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.
Vision: We envision a nation where marginalized children flourish, leaders prioritize their well-being, and communities wield the power to ensure they thrive.

Child Rescue Coalition

Mission: Rescue children from sexual abuse by building technology for law enforcement, free of charge, to identify, arrest and prosecute child predators.
We collaborate with a global force of child exploitation investigators, police officers, digital forensic experts, child welfare agencies and donors to rescue children and apprehend abusers in real time.

Children's Institute

Mission: Building A More Equitable Future.
Our North Star: Children’s Institute believes in the abundant potential of all children and families to achieve emotional well-being and educational success, which build pathways to economic mobility and lifelong health.

Chosen Care

Mission: To help children, youth, and families prevent and heal trauma through healthy relational connections.
Chosen is dedicated to supporting children and youth in overcoming trauma by creating strong, stable relationships within foster, kinship, adoptive, and reunified families. Through our clinical services, and trauma training, we offer evidence-based methods to prevent disruptions and ensure lasting connections for every child.

Closegap

Mission: To ensure every young person has access to emotional support from trusted adults and bite-sized mental health resources that help them reflect and grow. We partner with schools because they’re on the frontlines of the youth mental health crisis.
We consider these no-brainers as we aim to transform youth mental health through K-12 schools.

Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness

Mission: To engage diverse stakeholders, increase public awareness, promote innovative research, and advocate for policy change that addresses the adverse consequences of social isolation and loneliness and advances approaches that improve social connectedness for all Americans.

Common Sense Media

Common Sense is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.

Compassion Prison Project

Mission: To create trauma-informed prisons and communities.
Vision: All prisons are transformed from punitive human warehouses into rehabilitative environments.

Connect Our Kids

Mission: Provides freely accessible modern technology to help professionals find loving extended family members and build social capital for vulnerable children and their families.
A technology nonprofit dedicated to helping social workers, lawyers, family recruiters, and CASA/GAL volunteers find supportive family connections and natural support networks for America’s most vulnerable.

Crisis Text Line

Crisis Text Line is a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention in English and Spanish. Since its launch in 2013, Crisis Text Line has engaged in more than 7.5 million crisis conversations and trained over 55,000 volunteers to support people in their moments of need.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

Mission: DBSA provides hope, help, support, and education to improve the lives of people who have mood disorders.
Vision: The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) envisions wellness for people living with mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder).

Einhorn Collaborative

Mission: Dedicated to addressing America’s growing crisis of connection.
Vision: Across every generation, our ability to work together in common purpose has fueled our greatest achievements and safeguarded our progress in times of challenge and change. By taking the time to listen, learn, and understand each other first, we can see our humanity in a new light and write the next chapter of our human story together.

Evermore

Mission: Is dedicated to making the world a more livable place for bereaved people. We are changing policies and practices within our communities — and across our nation — so that all bereaved individuals can achieve a healthy, prosperous, and equitable future.

Everybody Matters

Mission: To help people thrive emotionally when life gets hard.
Vision: We envision a world where Everybody Matters. Period.

Extraordinary Lives Foundation

Mission: To improve children’s mental health and wellness and support families by providing educational tools, resources, and awareness events.
Vision: To destigmatize mental health challenges and to increase awareness to normalize conversation and encourage families to reach out.

Family Service Agency

Mission: To provide services which advocate for strengthening and preserving the individual and the family. A belief we’ve held firm for the past 100 years and will continue well into the future.
What We Do: As the oldest social service agency in the Phoenix valley, Family Service Agency supports children, adolescents, adults, and families. FSA offers online and in-person counseling, medication management, and treatment for substance use disorders.

Feeding Matters

Mission: Furthering advances in pediatric feeding disorder by accelerating identification, igniting research, and promoting collaborative care for children and families.
Vision: A world in which children with pediatric feeding disorder will thrive.

First Focus on Children

Mission: A bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions.
What We Do: First Focus on Children produces cutting edge analyses, policy briefs, and events to educate lawmakers and the American public about the issues facing children. Our sister organization, First Focus Campaign for Children, evaluates specific pieces of legislation for their impact on children, and helps mobilize public response in support of kids.

Foundation for Social Connection

Mission: To engage in education, increase public awareness, promote innovative research, and spur the development and implementation of evidence-based models that address social isolation, loneliness, and social connection.
Vision: For all Americans to have the opportunities and evidence-based supports necessary to be socially engaged in society.

Fountain House

Mission: To create the community, innovation, and social change needed for people most impacted by mental illness to lead connected and healthy lives.
Vision: Transforming the way the world sees and treats people most impacted by mental illness.

Fresh Start Women's Foundation

Mission: Providing access & resources that help women achieve self-sufficiency & use their strength to thrive.
Our work empowers women as they become the heroes of their own story. With wrap-around services and one-on-one support, Fresh Start is here to walk alongside you on the journey to becoming your best self.

Gabriel's Angels

Mission: To inspire confidence, compassion, and best behaviors in at-risk children through pet therapy.
Pet Therapy Teams visit crisis nurseries, domestic violence and homeless shelters, and Title One schools all in an effort to intervene in children’s’ lives and enhance their emotional behavioral development by teaching core behaviors – attachment, confidence, self-regulation, affiliation, empathy, tolerance, and respect.

Girls Inc.

Mission: Girls Inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
Vision: Powerful girls in an equitable society.
Girls Inc. works with and for girls to advocate for policies to overcome the social and systemic barriers that threaten their ability to succeed.

Give An Hour

Approach: All mental health support we provide is informed through the knowledge gained from lived experiences.
We listen to what individuals want and need, educate mental health providers to understand the community on a deeper level, and customize our services and supports to be responsive toward long term health and wellness.

Give Kids The World

Mission: To create happiness and hope for critically ill children and their families.
Give Kids The World Village is an 89-acre, nonprofit “storybook” resort in Central Florida. Here, children with critical illnesses and their families are treated to weeklong, cost-free vacations.

Global Coalition for Youth Mental Health | Unicef For Every Child

Vision: To ensure child and youth mental health is prioritized on the social, economic, and political agenda, strengthening the skills and supportive environments for the mental health of 50 million children and young people in 150 countries by 2030.
Together, we leverage our unique strengths to secure investment and action to support the mental health of all children and youth.

Guitars Over Guns

Mission: Empowering youth through music and mentorship.
Unique curriculum emphasizes positive youth development and outcomes through music and arts instruction. After each session, mentors assess students’ academic performance, school and program attendance, artistic progress and peer interactions. We use positive youth development measurements to evaluate key competencies such as empathy, teamwork, initiative, responsibility and problem solving.

Healing Together

Mission: We equip everyday leaders with resources to build resilient communities and prevent and disrupt cycles of trauma and harm.
Our Work: We democratize access to justice-centered, peer-led resources to support emotional health and wellbeing, healing, and resilience.

Healthy Gamer Foundation

Mission: Promotes the mental health needs of the digital generation.
Vision: We find mental health interventions that work for young people and add fuel through funding, policy, and targeted research to drive action.

Holistic Life Foundation

Established through social entrepreneurship in response to the need for mental health services in underserved communities in Baltimore, HLF currently works with 5,000+ Baltimore City Public School students on a weekly basis. The organization’s goal is to improve social, community, educational, and emotional outcomes in low-income, underserved communities by providing multi-faceted programming that empowers youth, families, and adults through yoga, mindfulness, and human and environmental health.
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Hope for Depression Research Foundation

Mission: To fund the most innovative neuroscience research into the origins, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of depression and its related mood disorders – bipolar disorder, postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder and suicide.

HopeKids

Mission: HopeKids provides ongoing events, activities and a powerful, unique support community for families who have a child with cancer or some other life­threatening medical condition. We surround these remarkable children and their families with the message that hope is a powerful medicine.
Vision: To restore hope and transform the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions, their families and the communities in which we serve.

Homeless Youth Connection

Mission: Homelessness will not limit a youth’s opportunity for a successful future.
Vision: To eliminate barriers to graduation for homeless youth and create lasting solutions for a successful future through community support and increased awareness.

HOPE Mental Health Foundation

Mission: We seek to create a better world by removing barriers to therapy so individuals can progress emotionally and break cycles of destruction for themselves, their families and their communities.
What We Do: Connect donors passionate about mental health with individuals that need the gift of therapy through sponsorships to carefully vetted state-licensed counselors.

Hunkapi Programs

Mission: To Teach the World to Fear Less and Love More.
What We Do: We do this by regularly creating fresh experiences for our clients/participants that zing connection from head to toe. The kind of zing that makes you realize you are alive and that life can be joyful. While you’re experiencing, the staff notice how deep are your sighs, how relaxed your jaw, whether there is the hint of a smile, a giggle of fear or one of happiness, whether your eyes are dilated with concern or smiling with joy.

Huntsman Mental Health Foundation

Mission: To transform mental health care through community, research, clinical, and education initiatives.
Vision: We strive for a world where mental wellness is accessible to all, where funding is not an obstacle on the path to well-being.

ICAN: Positive Programs for Youth

Mission: To transform the educational, social, and emotional wellbeing of youth.
What We Do: Nationally-recognized out-of-school time prevention programming teaches vulnerable youth real-life skills including goal setting, positive decision-making and how to avoid the risky behaviors that are prevalent in the communities ICAN serves. ICAN is unique because our programming is offered free of charge to remove the barriers that can prevent low-income families from accessing needed services.

Impactful Fund

Mission: We believe storytelling holds the power to positively impact entire communities.
IMPACTFUL creates award-winning, evidenced-based film programs for schools, businesses, and non-profits. Rooted in curiosity, empathy, and resilience, our Creative Coping Toolkit (CCT) fosters connection and positive action through storytelling, active listening, and conversation.

Inner Explorer

Mission: To make the daily practice of mindfulness approachable and accessible for school communities. We aim to equip educators, students, and their families with valuable life skills that foster human potential.
Inner Explorer is formatted upon Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) protocol, a world-renowned method with over 9000 studies proving its effectiveness in mitigating stress and improving overall well-being.

Inseparable

Mission: Envisions a world where mental health is treated as a critical and equal piece of overall health, and where systems are designed with their impact on mental health in mind.
Vision: Together we will empower Americans from every town, city, and home to better care for one another by demanding and winning policy that better cares for us all.

Inspiring Children Foundation

Mission: To transform the lives of at-risk youth through a comprehensive approach that addresses their physical, emotional, social, and mental health needs.
Vision: The Inspiring Children Foundation envisions a world where underprivileged youth are empowered through a comprehensive, student-led mental health and wellness program.

Institute for Mental Health Research

Mission: We are the leader in supporting mental health solutions through research, and we do this in three ways: 1) Funding Arizona scientists pursuing novel, early-stage mental health research, 2) Educating the public on current research findings, 3) Fostering collaboration between scientists, academics and healthcare thought leaders
Vision: Arizona becomes the national leader in mental health research to prevent and reduce mental illness and advance psychological wellbeing.

Kara

Mission: To provide grief support for children, teens, families and adults.
Vision: To see people of all ages compassionately supported on their journey through grief so they can move toward renewed hope and meaning.

Kindr Foundation

The foundation of personal well-being, thriving relationships, and welcoming communities is built on mindful kindness. Being present and choosing to respond in kind ways, truly is the key to lasting happiness. The Kindr Foundation makes it easy to spread happiness by providing content, curricula, educational expertise, and grants to implement Kindr Programs in classrooms, communities, and prisons. We partner with leaders who feel a sense of responsibility to help inspire communities to be just a bit more kind.
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Koko

Mission: To help end the youth mental health crisis by reaching young people where they are.
To address young people seeking harmful content online, we provide assistance by redirecting at-risk users to free helplines, peer support, and self-help courses—doing so in an ethical and responsible manner.

Konscious Youth Development & Services (KYDS)

KYDS was founded in the Fall of 2014 by Mychal Mills and Rodney Salomon, two passionate individuals looking to support the minds, bodies, and souls of the greater Asbury Park community and beyond. Since it takes the transformation of entire communities to sustain the upliftment of our youth, KYDS also offers holistic wellness programming for school educators, administration, educators, parents, and the community.

Lines for Life

Mission: Dedicated to preventing substance abuse and suicide and promoting mental wellness. Our work addresses a spectrum of needs that include intervention, prevention and advocacy.
What We Do: We offer hope to individuals and communities on our crisis and emotional support helplines, most of which answer calls 24/7. We educate, train, and advocate for prevention in communities and across the region. We dispel myths and break stigma around substance use and suicide.

Loveland Foundation

Mission: Committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls.
Story: The Loveland Foundation was established in 2018 by Rachel Cargle in response to her widely successful birthday wish fundraiser, Therapy for Black Women and Girls. Her enthusiastic social media community raised over $250,000, which made it possible for Black women and girls nationally to receive therapy support.

Maggie's Place

Mission: Provides safe housing and a nurturing community for homeless pregnant women, empowering them to thrive throughout their lifetime.
Vision: We aspire to be the premier service provider in Maricopa County to our moms, babies and families, breaking the cycle of generational trauma to transform our community.

Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas

Mission: Independent and nonpartisan, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute works at the intersection of policy and programs to create equitable systemic changes so all people in Texas, the nation, and the world can obtain the health care they need.
Vision: We envision Texas to be the national leader in treating all people with mental health needs.
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Mending Matters

Mission: Engage, Connect, and Empower youth through mental health services.
Vision: Every student has access to free mental health services by qualified support on school campuses.
Purpose: Challenge the status quo by providing easy and equitable access to youth-centered mental health care in schools.
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Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition

Mission: Fosters education and awareness of mental health and addiction issues while advocating for public policies and strategies that support effective, well-funded services, systems, and supports for those in need, resulting in stronger Ohio communities.
The MHAC is a place where diverse interests come together, speak with a common voice, and work towards guaranteeing access to quality services and supports for individuals with mental health and addiction disorders.

Mental Health America

Mission: Advances the mental health and well-being of all people living in the U.S. through public education, research, advocacy and public policy, and direct service.
Mental Health America is the nation’s leading national nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of mental health, well-being, and illness prevention. Our work is informed, designed, and led by the lived experience of those most affected.

Mental Health America of Arizona

Mission: To promote the mental health and well-being for all Arizonans through education, advocacy and the shaping of public policy.
An affiliate of the nation’s leading community-based non-profit, Mental Health America, founded in 1909 by Clifford Beers and is dedicated to helping all Americans achieve wellness by living mentally healthier lives.

Mental Health Collaborative

Mission: Building Resilient Communities through Mental Health Education & Awareness. Through our programs, we decrease stigma, increase knowledge, and give people the skills they need to flourish.
Vision: Informed communities where people flourish, live the lives they imagine for themselves and engage in the promotion of mental well-being. We are dedicated to ending stigma and improving mental health literacy across communities by moving away from a crisis based response toward a model of prevention through education and awareness.

Mental Health Literacy Collaborative

Mission: To make evidence-based mental health literacy a foundational part of PK-12 education and communities.
The Problem & How We Are Solving It: The mental health education landscape is complex. This is a system issue. We help state-level implementation professionals (people and organizations) navigate the system and empower the schools they work with through our three core initiatives listed below.
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Mindful Life Project

Mission: To provide everyone the skills and practices to thrive, leading to everyone feeling a deep sense of belonging and connection to themselves and each other.
Vision: Help transform school communities and systems from the inside out with innovative direct service mindfulness-based programming that provides the mental and emotional wellbeing foundation so that schools can go from historically stress and trauma inducing spaces to spaces of healing and empowerment.

Mindful Philanthropy

Mission: To catalyze impactful funding in mental health, addiction, and well-being.
Vision: We envision a world in which all funders are invested in solutions that integrate mental health and well-being so that all people have equatable access to the tools and resources they need to be well.

Mindfulness First

Mission: To teach children and adults the practical skills and knowledge needed for lifelong mental health and wellbeing.
Vision: We envision a cohesive society where humankind is supported by equitable tools for self-efficacy and mental health wellbeing through systemic changes for stronger, safer and more connected communities.

Minding Your Mind

Mission: To provide mental health education to students in kindergarten through college, and to the adults in their communities.
Our goal is to end the stigma and destructive behaviors often associated with mental health issues. By increasing help-seeking behavior, Minding Your Mind programs move away from crisis-based response to prevention through education.

Mind Share Partners

Mission: We’re leading the movement for workforce mental health.
Mind Share Partners is a nonprofit that is changing the culture of workplace mental health so that both employees and organizations can thrive.

Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA)

A movement for parents, founded by parents. MAMA was founded by Julie Scelfo, a former New York Times staff writer, media ecologist, and mother of three. Mothers Against Media Addiction is a grassroots movement of parents fighting back against media addiction and creating a world in which real-life experiences and interactions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood.
  • Media Addiction - Parents Advocacy
  • Revenue: <$250K
  • New York, NY
  • Financials (93-3798124)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: NR
  • Charity Navigator: NR
  • Tax Exempt Year:
  • Serving: National

National Alliance for Children's Grief (NACG)

Mission: To raise awareness about the needs of children and teens grieving a death and provide education and resources to anyone who wants to support them.
Vision: No child to have to grieve alone. All bereaved children, no matter where they live or their circumstances, should have the support and resources they need to positively adapt to a loss in their lives.

National CARES Mentoring Movement

Mission: To secure, heal and transform the lives of impoverished Black children by inspiring, recruiting and mobilizing masses of caring Black men and women to mentor and nourish them.
Vision: We ENVISION a nation in which all Black children are loved, have access to quality, culturally competent education and are supported by well-resourced families and communities living in harmony and guided by faith.

National Children's Advocacy Center

Mission: The NCAC models, promotes, and delivers excellence in child abuse response and prevention through service, education, and leadership.
Located in Huntsville, Alabama, revolutionized the United States’ response to child sexual abuse. Since its creation in 1985, the NCAC has served as a model for the 1,100+ Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) now operating in the United States and in more than 41 countries throughout the world.

National Council for Mental Wellbeing

Mission: The unifying voice of organizations that deliver mental health and substance use recovery services in America.
Vision: Mental wellbeing — including recovery from substance use — is a reality for everyone, everywhere. It’s who we are. It’s what we do.

National Equity Project

Mission: To develop leaders to transform the experiences, outcomes, and life options for children and families who have been historically underserved by our institutions and systems.
The National Equity Project (NEP) is a U.S. based national nonprofit organization. Since 1995, NEP has supported 100,000+ leaders in 1200+ schools, districts, state/federal education agencies and foundations to create conditions for youth thriving. We have impacted the learning environments of over 10 million young people.

Not My Kid

Mission: Ensure every kid thrives by inspiring positive life choices
Vision: That every kid will have the knowledge and confidence to reach their full potential through positive life choices.

OCJ Kids

Mission: Provide OPPORTUNITY, create COMMUNITY, and fight for JUSTICE for foster and at-risk kids.
Vision: Connect and create purposeful futures for foster and at-risk kids.

One Love Foundation

Mission: To change the stats around relationship abuse, One Love is laser focused on achieving key prevention outcomes.
Founded in 2010 to honor Yeardley Love, One Love works to ensure everyone understands the difference between a healthy and unhealthy relationship. After her death, Yeardley’s friends and family were stunned to learn that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men will be in an abusive relationship in their lifetime. Young women ages 16-24 are at 3X greater risk and have limited awareness of that fact. One Love exists because Yeardley was killed and her death was avoidable.
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One Mind

Mission: Catalyzes visionary change through science, business and media to transform the world’s mental health.
Inspired by the founders’ lived experience, One Mind is the leading brain health nonprofit committed to healing the lives of people impacted by brain illness and injury through global, collaborative action.
In addition to catalyzing pivotal brain health research for over 25 years, One Mind has made great strides towards establishing a gold standard for workplace mental health, uniting organizations from Bank of America to Pepsi under the One Mind At Work banner.
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One-n-Ten

Mission: Envisions a world where all LGBTQ youth and young adults are embraced for who they are, actively engaged in their communities, and empowered to lead.
Mission: To serve LGBTQ youth and young adults ages 11-24. We enhance their lives by providing empowering social and service programs that promote self‐expression, self‐acceptance, leadership development, and healthy life choices.

Only7Seconds

Mission: Address youth loneliness by encouraging and empowering individuals & partners to connect with other who matter in their lives.
Strategic Priority: Address the youth and young adult loneliness epidemic by reaching and empowering 500,000 youth and young adults (ages 8-24).

Our Minds Matter

Our Minds Matter (OMM), formerly the Josh Anderson Foundation (JAF) is a non-profit organization working toward the day when no teenager turns to suicide as the answer. OMM’s mission is to provide adolescents with mental health education, resources and support so they never die by suicide.

Partnership to End Addiction

Mission: To transform how our nation addresses addiction by empowering families, advancing effective care, shaping public policy and changing culture.
Who We Are: The nation’s leading organization dedicated to addiction prevention, treatment and recovery, we are a diverse community of researchers, advocates, clinicians, communicators and more.

Path Home

Mission: Path Home empowers families with children to get back into housing and stay there.
Vision: We envision a community where no family experiences homelessness and where every family receives the support and compassion necessary to thrive.

Peace In Schools

Mission: To liberate mind and heart through teen-centered transformative mindfulness education.
Vision: To reverse the teen mental health crisis so the next generation of adults can thrive.

Peer Health Exchange

Mission: To build healthier communities with young people. Together, we create education opportunities for peers to share the tools and resources young people need to make healthy decisions.
Approach: Peer Health Exchange partners with high schools that share our belief that health education is fundamental to a young person’s success.

PLUS ME Project

Mission: Activates the art of personal storytelling to increase confidence in youth as they pursue college, career, and life goals.
Vision: Where all communities are filled with courageous voices whose stories are heard, valued, and celebrated.

Project HEAL

Mission: To break down systemic, healthcare, and financial barriers to eating disorder healing.

Vision: Our vision is for every person with an eating disorder to have the resources and opportunities they need to heal.

Project Healthy Minds

Project Healthy Minds is a new millennial/Gen Z-driven non-profit startup focused on tackling one of the defining issues of our generation: the growing mental health crisis. The problem we’re solving: 615 million people worldwide and 65 million Americans are diagnosed with a mental health condition, and yet 60% never get mental health support.

Promly

Mission: To work together to empower human connectedness and to provide psychological support and education for teens in places they will naturally gravitate towards, both online and offline.
We aim to foster meaningful connections in a disconnected world, advocate for more responsible tech and to provide support rather than waiting for a crisis. We aim to be 10 preventative steps ahead of teen suicide and school violence. By creating a safer online, easily-accessible platform that is specifically for adolescents, we can provide genuine connection, education, empowerment, youth advocacy and actual mental health support – all in one place.

Read Better Be Better

Mission: To connect young readers and youth leaders to inspire a love of literacy and learning.
Vision: Envisions a world in which empowered communities demand equitable access to foundational skills.

Resilient Health

Purpose: To unleash the power of our employees and participants to create a resilient world, one person at a time.
Our purpose guides everything we do. Who we hire, what we do and how we do it are all focused on building resilience.

Room To Breathe Project (R2B)

Purpose: At The Room to Breathe Project (R2B), we envision a world where all young people, and the adults who serve them, are well.
We are a foundation that invests in, and partners with, organizations and innovation projects to address those mental health & well-being challenges

Rosie's House

Mission: To eliminate barriers to high-quality music education. Through music, we support youth as they develop their full creative and personal potential.
Vision: We envision a community where all youth have access to music education and opportunities for lifetime achievement.

Saving Amy

Mission: To resolve homelessness by creating community through mentoring, inner transformation through supportive programs, financial support and stability through employment.
Vision: Envision a world where all people come together as one community; empowering each other to experience life changing ways of living through inner transformation, compassion and love.

Saprea

In a conversation with his wife, Shelaine, Derek Maxfield lamented that someone should “do something” to help adult female survivors of child sexual abuse find hope and healing. He recognized that when you give someone hope and resources, they become the steward of their own healing. Together in 2014, the Maxfield family founded Saprea to fight child sexual abuse and its lasting impacts through healing and prevention services.

Self-Injury Recovery & Awareness

Mission: Self-Injury Recovery & Awareness or “SIRA” for short, focuses on filling the massive gap of care for the self-injury community by teaching them how to heal from the inside-out, through a peer-to-peer support group model.
SIRA’s goal is to reach 500K people by 2026— including people who self-injure, their families, and health care providers.

Society For The Prevention Of Teen Suicide (SPTS)

Mission: Dedicated to increasing awareness, saving lives and reducing the stigma of suicide through specialized training programs and mental health resources that empower students, parents, school staff and community members with the skills needed to help youth build a life of resiliency.

Solari Crisis & Human Services

Mission: Inspiring Hope. We keep our mission of “Inspiring Hope” short and simple because we believe in making a difference in every way we can.
Vision: To be the trusted leader in improving lives and communities through human connection and innovation.

Southern Arizona Children’s Advocacy Center

Mission: To provide a safe, compassionate, healing environment for children who have been a victim or witness to a crime.
Vision: Provide each child with the safety they need to tell their story. Provide each child with healing services. Hold abusers accountable.

Southwest Center

Mission: Provide affirming and inclusive services to promote well-being and advance health equity for diverse communities and all those seeking compassionate care – especially people of color, LGBTQIA2S+ and Queer individuals, and those affected by HIV.
Vision: Envision a just and equitable world where who we are is embraced in all spaces – especially in barrier-free access to health and wellness – leading each of us to live a full, rich, and authentic life.

Speak Our Minds

Vision: We are committed to the mental health and wellbeing of all children and to building a society where kids can access the mental health care they need, when they need it.
Our Purpose: To build a comprehensive system for youth mental health by working across providers, payors, policy makers, and politicians – to ensure a high quality equitable and accessible experience for youth and our families.

Teen Lifeline

Mission: To prevent teen suicide in Arizona through enhancing resiliency in youth and fostering supportive communities.
Vision: A world where all youth possess a sense of connectedness and hope for their future.

Teen Line

Mission: Provides support, resources, and hope to young people through a hotline of professionally trained teen counselors, and outreach programs that de-stigmatize and normalize mental health.
Vision: Envision a world where every young person can find hope. A world where all youth have the resources and support needed to thrive.
Teen Line is a program of Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, a 501c3 organization.

The AAKOMA Project

Mission: To build the consciousness of Youth of Color and their caregivers on the recognition and importance of mental health, empower youth and their families to seek help and manage mental health and influence systems and services to receive and address the needs of Youth of Color and their families.
Vision: Envision a world where EVERY child, teen, and young adult (inclusive of all points of diversity) feels the freedom to live unapologetically and authentically within an environment that allows them to rise and thrive.

The Art Therapy Project

Mission: Healing Through Art
The Art Therapy Project is a nonprofit providing group art therapy in a safe inclusive space for people in need of mental health services. Clients feel connected and inspired while exploring their personal journeys, increasing their self-awareness, and improving their quality of life.

The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health

The Brookline Center transforms the mental health system through the development and delivery of innovative programs and services that are accessible to our community and beyond.

The Center for Victims of Torture

Mission: To heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to end torture worldwide.
Vision: The Center for Victims of Torture’s vision is a world without torture.

The Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness

Mission: The Coalition’s mission is to engage diverse stakeholders, increase public awareness, promote innovative research, and advocate for policy change that addresses the adverse consequences of social isolation and loneliness and advances approaches that improve social connectedness for all Americans.

The Contentment Foundation

Mission: To provide preventative, sustainable wellbeing practices to one billion people within one generation.
Our Cities of Wellbeing initiatives are the roadmap toward this reality, where epidemic levels of anxiety, depression, isolation, suicide, violence, and toxicity become the artifacts of a past generation. We believe that mental wellbeing is a universal human right that everyone needs to learn at the earliest age and cultivate throughout adulthood.

The Good Life Movement

Mission: To end the mental health crisis and give all Americans a fair shot at the pursuit of happiness.
Vision: Heal the Nation. Rebuild Our Communities. Put People First. We are building a big tent vision that will address mental health for all people and populations in America. Together we’ll beat the crisis and create a world that makes us happy, not sick.
  • Mental Health Action & Accountability
  • Revenue: $250K - $1M
  • Washington, DC
  • Financials (92-3254873)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: NR
  • Charity Navigator: NR
  • Tax Exempt Year:
  • Serving: National

The JED Foundation

What We Do: Equips America’s teens and young adults with the skills and support they need to grow into healthy, thriving adults. Mental health impacts all aspects of our lives — school, work, home life, relationships, and our overall well-being. Supporting and protecting mental health during the challenging transition from the teenage years to adulthood requires a comprehensive approach that addresses all the factors that can impact how we think, feel and perceive the world around us.

The Kennedy Forum (Mental Health Leadership Initiative)

Mission: Lead a national effort to transform the way mental health and substance use disorder are treated in our healthcare system.
Going into 2024, we have set our strategic focus on shepherding an inclusive movement that will ensure every person in the United States has access to the mental health and substance use treatment services and supports they need.
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The Kids Mental Health Foundation | On Our Sleeves Program

Mission: To give expert-created resources to all U.S. communities so everyone can understand and promote mental health for children.
Vision: To build a world where mental health is a part of the upbringing of every single child—but it’s no easy task.

THE REAL Mental Health Foundation

Mission: To harness the power of conversation and community to change the mental health industry through human and financial capital.
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The Steve Fund

Mission: Promoting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color.
The Steve Fund is the nation’s leading organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color. The Steve Fund works with colleges and universities, non-profits, researchers, mental health experts, families, and young people to promote programs and strategies that build understanding and assistance for the mental and emotional health of the nation’s young people of color.

The Whole Child

Mission: To help families raise emotionally and physically healthy children and have a place to call home.
Vision: We envision a world that values the individual needs of each child and their family. A world that secures access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive and live a happy life.

Think of Us

Think of Us is a research and design lab for the social sector. Led and guided by people who have been directly impacted by the child welfare system, we are a trusted partner across the field nationally. We publish groundbreaking research, work with cities, states, and tribes to co-design and implement solutions to long-standing challenges, and advise federal and state policy makers on effective, bipartisan solutions.

This Is My Brave

Mission: To empower individuals to put their names and faces on their true stories of recovery from mental illness and addiction.
Vision: To one day live in a world where we don’t have to call it “brave” to talk openly about mental illness. We’ll simply call it talking.

Tilly's Life Center

Mission: To inspire today’s youth to reach their full potential as productive, kind, happy, and responsible individuals.
Who We Are: Tilly’s Life Center (TLC) is a youth-focused, 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization aimed at empowering all teens with a positive mindset and enabling them to effectively cope with crisis, adversity and tough decisions.

To Write Love On Her Arms

Mission: A non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
Vision: The vision is that we actually believe these things: ♥ You were created to love and be loved. ♥ You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known. ♥ You need to know your story is important, and you’re part of a bigger story. ♥ You need to know your life matters.
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Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students (TRAILS)

TRAILS has always been a deeply collaborative effort. Our staff works together to synthesize a broad range of expertise, including clinical mental health, technology, and implementation science – and that’s only the beginning.
  • Mental Health Strategies for Schools
  • Revenue: $50M+
  • Ann Arbor, MI
  • Financials (93-3809957)
  • Website
  • GuideStar: NR
  • Charity Navigator: NR
  • Tax Exempt Year: 2024
  • Serving: National

Trans Lifeline

Mission: Connects trans people to the community support and resources we need to survive and thrive.
Vision: We envision a world where trans people have the connection, economic security, and care everyone needs and deserves—free of prisons and police.

Trauma Research Foundation

Mission: To support and grow a community of clinicians, researchers, educators, and people whose lives are affected by trauma, who collaborate to research, develop, disseminate, and implement optimal trauma treatments for children and adults.
Who We Are: The Trauma Research Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in May of 2018, organized to promote clinical, scientific and educational projects.

Upstream Education

Creates easy, evidence-based tools to help students strengthen resilience, reduce anxiety, and enhance well-being
Who We Are: We work with schools and districts to offer their student community small yet poignant tools for Tier 1 mental health.

Vibrant Emotional Health

Mission: To help all people achieve mental and emotional well-being through groundbreaking solutions that deliver high-quality support, when, where, and how they need it.
Vision: A world where all people can achieve mental and emotional well-being with dignity and respect.

Wellbeing Action for Youth

Mission: Activating the skills and opportunities for children to reach their full potential.
Vision: Every Child Practicing mindful awareness everyday.

Wellness Together

Mission: To deliver effective and accessible mental health services for individuals & families everywhere.
As one of the largest providers of in-person and online school mental health services, Wellness Together attracts and retains qualified mental health professionals from top universities.

We R H.O.P.E.

Mission: Dedicated to bringing education, normalization, and a message of hope to those who are struggling with mental health issues by providing affordable and accessible individualized support.
Vision: Transform the way society addresses mental health by creating a culture where mental health support is affordable and readily available to all.
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WholeSchool Mindfulness

Mission: Co-creating an education system that advances well-being, community, and justice through the transformative power of mindfulness.
Vision: We envision a mindful education system in which every school has access to a culturally responsive Mindfulness Director.

Wings for Kids

Mission: To equip kids with the skills they need to succeed in school, stay in school, and thrive in life.
Vision: Our long-term vision is a world where there is equity in academics, opportunity, and emotional well-being for all children, regardless of socioeconomic status.

Women’s Health Innovations of Arizona

Mission: Our team is dedicated to providing high-quality mental healthcare counseling and support services for mothers and families in need during pregnancy, the postpartum period and parenthood. Our goal is to provide accessible and exceptional care to all families experiencing difficulties with these transitions. We are passionate about supporting families to help bring them success in childbirth, familial relationships and family life.
Vision: Improving access to mental health care for families from pregnancy through parenting.

YES Nature to Neighborhoods

Mission: In partnership with nature, YES nurtures leaders who champion the wellbeing of our community.
Vision: For Richmond youth, adults and families to lead healthy, connected lives; motivate change in their neighborhoods; and inspire a safe, thriving community.

Young People In Recovery (YPR)

Mission: To provide the life skills and peer supports to help young people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential.
Vision: YPR envisions a world where all young people have the resources they need to thrive in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Youth Alive

Mission: To break the cycle of violence and uplift a thriving community of leaders rooted in Oakland and beyond through prevention, intervention, healing and advocacy.
We believe that young people growing up and going to school in the city’s most violent neighborhoods, possess the power to change the city for the better. We meet our clients where they are, at home, in school, at the hospital bedsides of young shooting victims, on the streets of our most dangerous neighborhoods.

YouthBuild Global

YouthBuild champions opportunity youth as they realize their goals and aspirations, transform into the leaders of today and tomorrow, and provide valuable service on a global scale—all while paying it forward to the next generation. Together, we’re building brighter futures.

Youth Emerging Stronger

Mission: To provide runaway, homeless and foster youth with safety, stability and housing, along with the relationships and resources to thrive now and in the future.
The youth we serve have suffered traumas through no fault of their own. It will take all of us – working together and with a common mission – to ensure their self-sufficient futures. You can be part of our formula for success.

Youth Guidance

Mission: Creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life.
Vision: Sees a bright and successful future for every elementary and high school student.  Because we believe that success in school is not only possible but should be achieved and celebrated, we are present in the schools to facilitate an environment that truly engages students in the learning process, and through careful guidance, enables them to realize their full potential and graduate with a meaningful plan for successfully managing life.

YouthLine, A Service of Lines for Life

YouthLine is a teen-to-teen youth crisis and support service provided by Lines for Life—a non-profit dedicated to preventing substance abuse and suicide. YouthLine operates a national helpline that provides crisis support and referrals via call, text, and chat. The YouthLine is answered by teen volunteers daily from 4pm-10pm PST (and by adults at all other times!). Translation services are available upon request.

Youth MOVE National

Mission: Youth MOVE National envisions a future in which young people are valued as empowered leaders, advocates, and designers of communities that are built for all youth to thrive.
Vision: Youth MOVE National connects, supports, and develops youth leadership in advocacy to create positive change. We practice authentic youth engagement through youth driven decision making by elevating youth voices of lived experience. We ensure that young people are heard and valued as leaders in the agencies, communities, and systems that impact their lives.
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