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Published: March 20, 2024Author: Aviwe FunaniBlogs

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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Published: February 26, 2024Funding Opportunities

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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Published: February 21, 2024

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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Published: January 4, 2024Media

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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Published: October 25, 2023Publications

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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Published: October 19, 2023Blogs

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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