A SAGACITY Campaign for Suicide Prevention, Healthy Relationships & Young Adult Safety

September 14 – October 14, 2026

30 Days. $10,000. One Community Choosing to Show Up.

In loving honor of Amiya.

About This Campaign

For five years, Simply Youth Institute's SAGACITY Leadership Program has created spaces where young people can be seen, heard, supported, and reminded of their power.

For five years, we have witnessed what happens when young people are given something incredibly important:

A safe space to belong.

From September 14 through October 14, we are asking our community to help us raise $10,000 to continue this work through STAY IN THE LIGHT, our SAGACITY campaign focused on suicide prevention, healthy relationships, domestic violence prevention, emotional wellness, and connection.

Young people are navigating experiences we cannot always see.

Behind a smile can be anxiety. Behind silence can be a young person trying to find the words.

Inside a relationship can be behaviors they do not yet recognize as unhealthy.

And sometimes, what changes a young person's path is knowing there is someone—and somewhere—they can turn to. ✨ SAGACITY strives to be one of those spaces.

What SAGACITY Provides

SAGACITY is a trauma-informed, healing-centered leadership experience that helps young people develop the skills, relationships, confidence, and resources that support safer and healthier futures.

Through SAGACITY, participants explore:

• Emotional awareness and self-regulation
• Healthy relationships, boundaries, and communication
• Recognizing unhealthy and harmful relationship behaviors
• Self-worth and personal identity
• Creative expression and storytelling
• Leadership and decision-making
• Mentorship and trusted adult relationships
• Career and future exploration
• Financial and digital literacy
• Connection to supportive community resources

We believe prevention can begin long before a moment of crisis.

It can begin with a conversation.

A journal. A trusted mentor. Learning what a healthy relationship looks like.

Recognizing that something doesn't feel right.

Having the language to ask for help.

Knowing someone will listen.

And discovering a future that feels worth exploring.

Five Years of SAGACITY

✨ 5 Years. 30 Days. $10,000.

SAGACITY has successfully served young people for five years, creating experiences centered around confidence, leadership, emotional awareness, exploration, creativity, and belonging.

Now, we are building the next chapter.

Our goal is to raise $10,000 between September 14 and October 14 to strengthen SAGACITY's prevention and healing-centered programming and help more young people access safe, supportive spaces.

Every contribution—whether $5 or $2,500—becomes part of that work.

In Honor of Amiya

This campaign also carries someone very special in our hearts.

Amiya.

Amiya was part of our SAGACITY community. She was creative. She was expressive. She had a voice and a presence that mattered. We will not ask Amiya's story to carry this campaign.

Instead, we choose to honor the light she brought into our community and carry forward something we believe deeply:

Every young person deserves to be heard.

Every young person deserves healthy relationships.

Every young person deserves people who notice.

Every young person deserves spaces where they can speak without judgment.

Every young person deserves opportunities to create, dream, explore, and imagine what comes next.

And every young person deserves to know that their presence matters.

We carry that light forward for Amiya—and for every young person still discovering their own.

$5 FOR 5 YEARS

Can't make a large gift?

You can still become part of this campaign.

Give $5 in honor of five years of SAGACITY.

Then invite five people to join you.

$5 becomes $25.

$25 becomes $125.

And one person deciding to care becomes a community deciding to act.

Give $5. Share why you chose to give. Invite five people into the light.

OUR GOAL: $10,000 BY OCTOBER 14, 2026 

Your contribution helps Simply Youth Institute continue creating spaces where young people can:

Be heard.
Recognize their worth.
Build healthy relationships.
Strengthen their voice.
Connect with trusted people.
Explore their future.
And know they do not have to navigate everything alone.

STAY IN THE LIGHT.

For Amiya.

For five years of SAGACITY.

For the young person who hasn't found the words yet.

For every young person who deserves the opportunity to discover what comes next.

Help us raise $10,000 in 30 days.

✨ Give. Share. Carry the Light.