MedCity News September 30, 2024
Healthy Young Minds is an online youth mental health startup. It was recently crowned winner of MedCity News’ INVEST Pitch Perfect contest focused on pediatric mental health.
As a father of three kids in Colorado, Paul Graf, founder and CEO of Healthy Young Minds, understands how difficult it is to find mental health care for children. His oldest has autism, and the family struggled to find the care they needed while living in a therapy desert.
That’s why about six years ago, he put his career as an investor and entrepreneur on hold to start a pediatric mental health clinic in his Colorado community called Vail Mind Center. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, he learned something: the vast majority of...