Stigma, Shame, and Fear
These obstacles profoundly influence an individual’s decision not to seek help when suffering from mental health challenges. Students often find themselves wrestling privately with frustration and despair as a mental health challenge dominates their life. Often too afraid to seek help due to stigma, fear of discrimination or shame. Most are not aware that effective treatments exist and things can get better; there’s hope.
What If?
What if they knew that they were not alone? What if they had heard stories of peers who overcame or effectively managed similar challenges? What if they didn’t feel shame, despair, hopelessness, embarrassment or fear. What if they had hope that effective treatments exist. What if they sought help?
Help Us
Your donation will help our multifaceted campaigns targeted at addressing the root cause of the problem by focusing on access to early intervention, education, and open conversation. We hope ot change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors surrounding mental health to end stigma, ensuring engagement in help seeking behaviors and create hope.
Our Projects
This fall, Ignite Mental Health will begin its campus initiative, spreading our message to high school and college campuses around the country. Through this, we hope to bring the importance of mental healthcare to the forefront of conversation.
We are also launching and publishing a mental health narratives campaign on social media platforms to raise awareness about the mental health crisis we face today.
Funds raised can help achieve
$10,000
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Curate and publish 100 mental health stories focused on showing recovery is possible, highlighting help seeking behavior and instilling hope.
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Recruit, train and establish 10 campus ambassadors on 10 college campuses.
$25,000
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Expand the reach of our campaigns to up to 180,000 students on college campuses around the country, raising awareness about mental health and bringing it to the forefront of conversation on campuses everywhere.
$50,000
- Organize 1,000 walk-a-thons around the country like this one to bring awareness to communities and expand our projects further.