We are devoted to promoting and providing awareness to one of the world's most prominent issues, mental health. Our topic is anxiety, especially among young teens. We hope to spread awareness about this issue to students around the nation through our events and social media platforms!
We have created multiple social media accounts under DCD_MHP to make our information available to our entire community on various creative & interactive platforms. We chose the specific platforms, Instagram, Youtube, Spotify, and TikTok as we felt they were the most accessible to our topic audience, high schoolers. The content on these accounts mainly highlight our topic, anxiety, and provide insight while also spreading awareness on our protective and risk factors. Additionally, we organized numerous events that served as opportunities to engage our community and spread awareness on our risk & protective factors and their correlation to anxiety.
Our Social Media
Linktree -
We created a linktree to organize all of our resources and social media accounts in an easily accessible way. Along with our linktree, we included links to some of our most essential social media resources below.
Our Mental Health Consultant: Julie Smith
Our mental health consultant is Julie Smith, the Executive Director of the SAM Foundation, an organization dedicated to suicide prevention. The foundation, named in remembrance of her brother Sam and representing the mantra "Suicide Awareness Means... Hope," aims to shed light on the critical issue of suicide and offer tangible hope through education, elevation, and support. She is very experienced in the realm of mental health and has dedicated her life to reducing the harmful effects of it. For these reasons, we chose her to be our Mental Health Consultant.
To donate to the S.A.M. Foundation: https://samfound.org