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Youth Supporting Mental Health Needs

The Hillsdale County Community Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Unlimited Throughout Hillsdale (Y.O.U.T.H) is supporting the mental health needs of high school students in their community. 

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The Hillsdale County Community Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Unlimited Throughout Hillsdale (Y.O.U.T.H) is supporting the mental health needs of high school students in their community. 

The Y.O.U.T.H board selected youth mental health as the awareness project for 2021-2022. According to an HCCF press release, the group wanted to provide an all-in-one package that included educational resources, actionable steps and evidence-based tools to help recipients maintain mental health and to foster a feeling of safety and reassurance for those feeling unstable or unequipped to manage their symptoms.

The youth advisory council created 250 stress kits and distributed them to all ten high schools in Hillsdale County. These kits will aid students who experience stress or anxiety at school by providing them with tools that will help them to manage challenges so they might carry on with their day.

The self-care kits items were specifically chosen by the Y.O.U.T.H and included a journal, motivational card, magnets with emergency mental health contacts, a Rubik’s cube, tissues and a stress ball. These kits were designed to remind students of small, tangible activities they can do to help reduce their stress and anxiety.

Members of YOUTH are also members of the youth advisory council who manage grant requests for the W.K. Kellogg Youth Advisory Fund, a permanently endowed fund administered by the foundation for projects designed and implemented by youth, for youth. 

Their mission is to meet the needs of young people in Hillsdale County by enhancing the awareness of youth opportunities, offering information and resources through cooperative leadership, while providing financial support for projects to improve the youth communities of Hillsdale County. 

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