Mental Health Charity for Kids and Teens

If you are passionate about kids and mental health, you have hit the jackpot.

We love you already!

Here, you can make a difference with donations that literally help pay for children and teen’s mental health treatment. You can also support a mental health organization (Choose Mental Health) that identifies needs and provides services and resources for teens and children. Either way you are making a life-changing contribution.

Good

  • Healthy Hobbies
  • Good friends who are positive
  • Meditation/Religion
  • Activity/Movement
  • Wake/Sleep Routine

Better

  • Healthy workplace positivity
  • Building and keeping strong family ties
  • Spending time that makes positive memories (hiking with friends, picnics)
  • Service for others (elderly care, yard work for neighbors, etc.)
  • Get outside regularly (with someone is optimal

Best

  • Aerobic exercise 30 min/day, 3–5 times per week
  • Gratitude journal
  • Providing service at least once per week
  • Getting outside of your comfort zone and giving back is a very healthy way to support a neighbor or friend in need
  • Connect with others/friends daily
  • Strong sleep routines

Keeping It Real: Raising Youth Mental Health Awareness

  • It takes clinically sophisticated providers to really deliver sustainable results for adolescent mental health issues
  • Over 20 million kids struggle right now with chronic or severe mental health needs
  • Choose Mental Health’s network of residential providers take the hardest youth mental health cases
    • Usually a 12-14 month cycle from beginning to end
    • Results are powerful, long term and sustainable
    • Costs are expensive for 24 hour care, food, meds, specialized clinical therapy, boarding and private schooling
  • Fundraising helps kids who admit to residential care to defray costs