In 2019, one in three high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.
Donate to support youth mental health.
EQuip Our Kids! funding mobilizes parents and businesses to support universal social and emotional learning, a proven approach to building child and youth interpersonal skills, academic achievement, and overall life success.
then COVID-19 hit.
The U.S. Surgeon General recently announced that the youth mental health pain since the onset of Covid-19 has risen to an unprecedented crisis level that requires all of society to take action.
His advisory specifically calls for expanding social and emotional learning, or SEL, in schools to help suffering students.
SEL helps kids learn emotional life skills such as managing painful emotions, empathizing with others, handling challenges with optimism, and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
in 2019, one in three high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.
then COVID-19 hit.
donate to support youth mental health.
EQuip Our Kids! funding mobilizes parents and businesses to support universal social and emotional learning, a proven approach to building child and youth interpersonal skills, academic achievement, and overall life success.
The U.S. Surgeon General recently announced that the youth mental health pain since the onset of Covid-19 has risen to an unprecedented crisis level that requires all of society to take action.
His advisory specifically calls for expanding social and emotional learning, or SEL, in schools to help suffering students.
SEL helps kids learn emotional life skills such as managing painful emotions, empathizing with others, handling challenges with optimism, and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
Dr. Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
"Supporting the mental health of children and youth will require a whole-of-society effort [including] expanding programming that promotes healthy development such as social and emotional learning."
Youth Mental Health Crisis and Covid – The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory
December 2021
Surgeon General’s Press Release
Ask your schools to do more.
Schools can be a primary support for youth mental health. Sadly, only 25 percent of schools offer a comprehensive approach to social and emotional learning.
Parents, contact your local schools today, tell them about the Surgeon General’s warning on the youth mental health crisis, and ask them to do more. Ask them to support comprehensive, preK – 12 social and emotional learning.
Businesses, let us show you how you can help parents nationwide and youth in your communities by supporting SEL life skills – and benefit from it in multiple ways. Learn more.