Help with learning how to start conversations with friends and loved ones around mental health. Starting a conversation around mental health does not need to be uncomfortable, and it can make all the difference.

Strengthening the emotional health of teens and young adults so they can thrive today and tomorrow. JED also focuses on preventing substance abuse, self-harm, and suicide as a result of emotional distress.

YTP’s mission is to smash the stigma surrounding mental illness and to build a community of people that realize when hope happens when youth and community leaders work together.

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We believe LGBTQ young people deserve a welcoming, loving world. And we wake up every day dedicated to making that a reality.

At OUT Maine, we have an ambitious goal: to help Maine’s diverse queer youth thrive by demonstrating how much they matter. We do this by creating more welcoming and affirming communities for LGBTQ+ youth in all of their intersectional identities. We seek to strengthen communities by changing the very systems that serve youth—schools, health care, foster care, community organizations, and more.

White Flag is a free and anonymous app that connects you to peers based on your similarities and peers facing the same mental health challenges that you do. White Flag is a safe, anonymous way to connect with peers that understand how you are feeling and what you may be going through.

Cereal For Dinner is a collection of practical, realistic resources for living with clinical depression, created by people living with depression, for people living with depression. Cereal for Dinner resources were created to meet you where you’re at right now, not where you “should” be. They were designed to support you with 1. coping with depression day-to-day and 2. taking attainable steps toward wellness, when you’re ready.

Text 207-515-8398. We’re here for you every day from 2pm – 10pm EST.

This peer support text line is for youth 13 – 24 years old and is staffed by individuals 18 – 24.