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Youth Mental Health From a Teen Perspective - Lauren Skemp

Win This Year

English - June 10, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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High school student and young entrepreneur Lauren Skemp is working to increase awareness and support for youth mental health, including efforts to create an app to help teens who are facing mental health challenges.  In this episode she discusses the inspiration for and work on the app, the primary mental health challenges teens are facing today, and what things parents and schools can do to help improve teen mental health.   


Links mentioned on the show:

My Ink app Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myinkjournal_/

My Ink app Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myinkjournal

My Ink app Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyInkJournal

My ink app website: https://myinkjournal.wixsite.com/myink


Behavioral/mental health resources:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255

Crisis Text Line: Text "Listen" to 741741

Community Information and Referral Services: Dial 211 or visit 211.org

SAMHSA Behavioral Health Treatment Locator: https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/

notMYkid Website: https://notmykid.org/

notMYkid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notMYkid/

notMYkid Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notmykiddotorg/

notMYkid Twitter: https://twitter.com/notmykidtweets

notMYkid YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/notMYkidVids

Win This Year show email: [email protected]

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