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One Year of Collaboration and Advocacy for Improved Youth Mental Health
In this guest blog, Aviwe Funani, Senior Policy Officer at United for Global Mental Health reflects on one year of collaboration and advocacy for improved youth mental health. Youth mental…
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Call for Proposals: Understanding Stressors of Young People’s Mental Health
Various stressors, such as poverty, stigma, violence, and climate change, impact youth mental health. Yet, we don’t fully understand how personal, societal, and environmental factors can influence emerging mental health…
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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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