Websites

The following information and resources are from Mental Health America of Northern Kentucky & Southwest Ohio

Informational Websites

Mood Journal ("My Life My Voice")
Mood Journal is an app created by "Your Life Your Voice." It is a simple and interactive way to track your thoughts, feelings and moods.

Cove - Create music, capture your mood.
Sometimes it is difficult to find the right words to describe a feeling. Using Cove, you can create music to help express complicated feelings. Cove is a personal music journey to help you with your emotional and mental health. Pick from 8 unique moods and over 30 different instruments.

MindShift
There are things you can do to stop anxiety and fear from controlling your life. MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.

Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind is a modern meditation. This simple tool helps put a smile on your mind, anytime, anywhere, and every day. This Free app includes a meditation program designed to support 7 year-olds through adults.

Virtual Hope Box
The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a free app designed for use by parents and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the patient's smartphone according to the patient's specific needs.

What's Up?
What's Up? is a free app utilizing some of the best CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Stress and more.

SuperBetter
SuperBetter increases resilience - the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic even in the face of difficult obstacles. Playing SuperBetter makes you more capable of getting through any tough situation - and more likely to achieve the goals that matter most to you. Proven results in just 10 minutes a day.

JED Foundation
JED exists to protect emotional health and prevent suicide for our nation's teens and young adults. Transitioning into adulthood can bring big changes and intense challenges. The Jed Foundation (JED) empowers teens and young adults with the skills and support to grow into healthy, thriving adults.

Teen Mental Health
This website is designed to share information about mental health and provide you with resources that can help you understand your mental health and assist those you care about.

Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide
The mission of the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide is to reduce the number of youth suicides and attempted suicides by encouraging public awareness through the development and promotion of educational training programs.

You Rock Foundation
The You Rock Foundation was created to serve as a safe haven for those who have suffered or are currently suffering. Using music as a backdrop, You Rock seeks to pull those suffering out of the dark and show them the possibilities of moving forward with life.

Born This Way
Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation is committed to supporting the wellness of young people and empowering them to create a kinder and braver world. To acheive these goals, Born This Way Foundation leverages rigorous academic research and authentic partnerships in order to provide young people with kinder communities, improved mental health resources, and more positive environments - online and offline.

Child Mind Institute
The Child Mind Institute provides useful, accurate information that empowers families and communities to get help. They share all of their resources freely.

PROJECT 375
After being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in 2011, NFL star Brandon Marshall co-founded PROJECT 375 to help promote awareness of mental health, end the stigma, and raise funding for treatment.

MindPeace
MindPeace works to unite the right teams so kids and their families can get the mental health care they need. Website has a database of mental health providers and print resources for youth and adults.

Bring Change to Mind
Bring Change to Mind is a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging dialogue about mental health, and to raising awareness, understanding, and empathy.

Mental Health American Back to School Toolkit
Developed each year and released in mid-August in anticipation of the start of the new school year - provides free resources, tools, tips, and information on early identification themes and Before Stage 4 messaging.

Websites Associated with Crisis Lines

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free, 24/7 crisis line for individuals who are contemplating suicide or experiencing another mental health crisis. It is also for friends or family who want to know how to help someone in crisis.

TEEN LINE
TEEN LINE is a confidential hotline for teenagers. If you have a problem or just want to talk with another teen who understands, then this is the right place for you! TEEN LINE also offers message boards, resources, and information.

Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the USA to text with a trained Crisis Counselor.

The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people ages 13-24. Phone, Text, or Chat.

Screenings, Self-Help, and Self Expression

The Youth Test
The Youth Test is for young people (ages 11-17) who are concerned that their emotions, attention, or behaviors might be signs of a problem.

Self-Compassion
Meditation exercises to help individuals develop or strengthen self-compassion.

Mental Health America
Don't keep mental illness to yourself. There is power in sharing.

OK2TALK
The goal of OK2TALK is to create a community for teens and young adults struggling with mental health problems and encourage them to talk about what they're experiencing by sharing their personal stories of recovery, tragedy, struggle or hope.