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Youth of all races, identities and abilities deserve equitable access to mental health supports that are inclusive and responsive to their lived experiences. The reality is that young people are experiencing mental health challenges at increasingly alarming rates, and many young people ‒ like youth of color, LGBTQ+ youth and youth in rural and frontier communities ‒ face inadequate access to quality care.

You can spark the change you wish to see in your community to improve youth mental wellbeing. The National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s new web-based guide, Connecting Communities: A Guide to Youth-Adult Partnership for Youth Mental Wellbeing, offers tools, activities and many other resources to help youth and community-based organizations collaborate to realize a shared vision for change. Change makers who use this guide will discover new ways to:

• Commit to elevating youth voice of lived experience.
• Be a young leader and storyteller.
• Create change together.

By partnering with youth and sharing power in decision-making, community-based organizations can empower young people to channel their voices of lived experience and create new, more inclusive approaches to improving youth mental wellbeing. Together, we can build responsive community support systems that nurture resilience, self-efficacy and wellbeing for all youth.

The information in this guide is grounded in the real-world strategies used during CONNECTED, a two-year learning community aimed at reducing youth anxiety, depression and suicide in underserved communities through meaningful youth-adult partnerships. CONNECTED was made possible by funding from a private venture philanthropist and strategic partnerships with Change Matrix, Michigan Public Health Institute, Relias, Watauga Consulting and Youth MOVE National.

Check out https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/co... to learn more!