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: WinThisYear@notmykid.org
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