Forbes October 10, 2023
When it comes to tackling the unprecedented mental health issues facing today’s teens and young adults, the peer support model is rapidly gaining in stature.
Accelerating peer support is a primary goal of the Biden Administration’s strategy to address the country’s mental health crisis, and a recent Mental Health America report about expanding community-driven mental health resources for youth and young adults lists several methods to change culture. Among them: Invest in training to help ensure all young people have skills to promote mental health and support their peers, and integrate mental health promotion and peer support programs wherever young people spend their time.
MTV Entertainment Studios, which pioneered the Mental Health is Health initiative in 2021, is taking action...