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Remembering Youth Advisor Manvi Tiwari: A Tribute From the Being Initiative
Manvi Tiwari was an inspiring youth mental health activist and lived experience expert who worked with various global mental health-related initiatives and organizations including the Global Mental Health Peer Network,…
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Freethink: “How Can We Transform the Mental Health Care System for Today’s Youth?”
In a recent Freethink article, we partnered with UNICEF Innovation and the UNICEF country office in Nigeria to spotlight how we can transform mental health care with “systems innovation” to improve young people’s mental wellbeing through…
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The Lancet Comment: “Why Cities Matter for Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing”
Led by Fondation Botnar, mental health practitioners, youth leaders, and researchers discussed the impact of urban environments on young people’s mental health in a comment on The Lancet titled “Why Cities Matter…
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Being at the World’s Largest Gathering for Adolescents
“We must center Youth leaders at the forefront of decision-making globally — the leadership of young people, especially those with lived experience of mental health challenges, is so important. In…
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World Mental Health Day 2023 Recap: Youth in Focus
World Mental Health Day was on Tuesday, October 10 of this week, marking the 75th anniversary of the World Federation for Mental Health. This year’s campaign recognized that mental health is…
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SFA Foundation and NIHR Join the Being Initiative
Being is thrilled to announce that the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA) and the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, using UK aid through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR),…
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