The Youth Equity Project was formed to address the unspoken reality of the mental health crisis.

We founded the Youth Equity Project in January of 2023 with an immediate focus set on helping teens learn more about the rooted impacts of mental health today. The negative stigmatization surrounding mental health has integrated itself into our societal structures. Many view it as an individual weakness and this has become a harmful ideology, especially in our community today. A study done at UCLA found that Asian Americans are up to 50% more likely to not seek out help with mental health issues. A Columbia study further elaborates on how the Black population is 20% more likely to obtain mental health problems like Major Depressive Disorder or Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The Trevor Project reports that in 2022, nearly 45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered suicide as an option. All of these issues can be brought down to specific roots of the mental health crisis — and that is our societal structures and the stigmatization of mental health.

The Youth Equity Project has set a goal to eradicate these problems by educating the community on this unacknowledged — but very real — issue that persists today. We also want to involve members of the community in helping take further steps towards fixing this issue through the services we offer. Join us today on this journey!