WE'RE CELEBRATING OUR 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! 🥳 We're *giving away merch*, *running a donation campaign*, and hosting a *virtual half-day of incredible content* - your shares and engagement with #L2SAnniversary is so appreciated. As a part of the celebration for our 10th anniversary, we will be streaming: 🌟A Panel of Our Chapters (Claire Ma of L2S New Zealand, Aarushi Kataria of Letters to Strangers + India, Reuben Reeves of L2S Liberia, and Diya and Kristen of one of our high school Chapters in Florida - L2S Hawks) and their insights on youth mental health engagement 🌟A Panel with renowned medical professionals (Dr. Ken Duckworth, Chief Medical Officer of NAMI; Dr. Monica P. Band, award-winning trauma-informed therapist and podcaster; Dr. Omar Reda, Libya-born Harvard-trained trauma expert and psychiatrist; Dr Goitseone Tanki Thebe, award-winning Botswana-based doctor with training in Cuba) 🌟Conversations with various field leaders on intersections of mental health with art, the media, and politics (Amanda Lipp (she/her), award-winning filmmaker, artist, and founder of The Giving Gallery .; Shalom Onyx of The Onyx Family with over 7 million subscribers; Clayton Becker, L2S Chief Learning Officer and current Politics PhD student at UCLA with a politics educational TikTok @divasunglasses with 37K+ followers). 🌟Q & A with a leader of L'Oréal 🌟And a commemorative message from our founder and executive director, Diana Chao! >> The videos will be streamed starting on October 25th 11:30 AM GMT/7:30 AM ET through our @L2SMentalHealthMH Youtube Channel https://lnkd.in/dMnEdewn. >> Be sure to tune in and use the #L2SAnniversary from now until November 1st to join our giveaways! >> Our donation campaign is still ongoing, donate today to help us reach $50,000 USD during this celebration. Your shares and engagement mean the world. https://lnkd.in/gC_KyV9u Thank you for the last ten years - here's to decades more! 🎉 #mentalhealth #mentalillness #youth #charity #NGO #anniversary #celebration #giveaway #wellbeing #healthcare #mentalwellness
Letters to Strangers
Mental Health Care
Upland, California 655 followers
The largest global youth-for-youth mental health movement || Mental Health Made Personal
About us
Letters to Strangers (L2S) is a global youth-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit seeking to destigmatize mental illness and increase access to affordable, quality treatment for youth aged 13 to 24. We achieve our mission with a youth-run team through three main pathways: anonymous letter-writing, science-informed peer education, and grassroots policy-based advocacy. Since Letters to Strangers began, we've impacted over 35,000 people worldwide and have expanded to over a dozen countries on six continents. From the first student mental health task force on the Rutgers University Honors College campus to the first mental health professional ever brought to speak at our Karachi, Pakistan high school Chapter; from the first youth mental health movement in Liberia with our Monrovia Chapter to creating a short film series with actors from the Screen Actors Guild of New York, our network of youth mental health changemakers come from all backgrounds to fight for a common human cause. We have been featured on or by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (as a plenary keynote at the 2019 National Convention and winner of the Young Leader Award), Global Changemaker as the only American winner of the 2019 cohort, Global Teen Leader by the We Are Family Foundation, Vice, Viacom's Generation Change initiative, TEDxTeen, Unilever's Young Entrepreneur Awards (as the youngest-ever winner), Child Mind Institute, StudentVoice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and more. The road ahead is long but worthwhile!
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http://www.letterstostrangers.org
External link for Letters to Strangers
- Industry
- Mental Health Care
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Upland, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Youth and Mental Health
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Primary
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Upland, California 91786, US
Employees at Letters to Strangers
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Charlin Nhemachena
Regional Ambassador (Southern Africa) L2S
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Helen Chen
Missions SWE @ Anduril | Letters to Strangers
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Dan Kanceljak
Consultant I Mental Health Advocate I Social Scientist I Public Speaker
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Kopal Agarwal
B.A. Honours (English) Indraprastha College for women, University of Delhi
Updates
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We’re thrilled to be present at #Davos2024 and can’t wait to bring global youth mental health to the World Economic Forum stage! #WEF2024 #mentalhealth Thank you We Are Family Foundation ❤️❤️
#Davos2024 - We are coming to the #WorldEconomicForum, and we’re bringing #YouthToTheTable. I am honored and humbled to be one of nine young cross-sector leaders selected as a We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) Youth Delegate at the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum this January in Davos. We represent various disciplines and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), and we are committed to powering intergenerational collaboration for business innovation, effective policymaking and long-lasting change. I’ve spent almost half my life advocating for global mental health through Letters to Strangers . I can’t wait to share the stories and learnings of our entire community collected over the years at this special platform. I first went to Switzerland four years ago and met some of the best people through Global Changemakers . Now with my second family at WAFF, I’ll not only revisit the beautiful country, but serendipitously also get to meet L2S Liberia’s leader Reuben Reeves in person for the first time since we started working together years ago as he attends #WEF2024 with the Liberian government in support of our work there. I feel immensely lucky and grateful. GOING TO DAVOS 2024? 👇 If you’re going to be at WEF24, let us know. We would love to meet with you, participate in your events and invite you to ours! Meet my amazing fellow delegates: Liam McLeavey , Hayat Muse , Sneha Revanur , Harsh Agrawal , Italo Ribeiro Alves , David Saddington FRGS , Mozamel Aman , Tanvi Girotra #WeAreFamily #youth #activism #advocate #activist #mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalhealthawareness #davos #switzerland #opportunity
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