Hopeful Empowered Youth

Help us welcome our second cohort of youth Fellows! These 25 area youth will play a key role in helping HEY! and our efforts to improve the well-being of all youth in our community. They are a key advantage to our work because they are the ones living today's realities. Meet them here: https://lnkd.in/g_jzAgj4. Thank you to Youth At The Center for partnering with us and supporting the Fellows!

No matter who you are, you can join your community in protecting youth mental health. See the U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory to learn more about what you can do! https://lnkd.in/gXPGfjnf #YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters

📣 📣 📣 Calling Greater Cincinnati students in grades 7-12: Applications for funding for World Teen Mental Wellness Day 2025 are now open! bi3, Hopeful Empowered Youth (HEY!), Interact for Health and The Joe Burrow Foundation are teaming up to award up to $1,000 per school for activities to raise awareness for mental health issues, promote wellness and determine solutions. The deadline for applications is January 24, 2025. Learn more and apply at bi3.org/wtmwd2025/ #worldteenmentalwellnessday #teenmentalhealth

Calling all young people in the Greater Cincinnati region! Apply to be a HEY! Youth Fellow and advance our 10-year strategy to improve the well-being of youth in the Greater Cincinnati region. Learn more and register for Monday's info session: https://lnkd.in/g7w9NdNH

We are hiring!!! - HEY! Program Managers applications are due 11/7 - HEY! Youth Fellows 2.0 applications are due 11/10 Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/gxWayuFd

Extensive research, interviews, focus groups, and community meetings that engaged over 200 stakeholders and 60 youths went into the creation of the Greater Cincinnati Youth Mental Well-Being Collaborative Needs Assessment. Learn more about the findings at hopefulempoweredyouth.org

On this #WorldMentalHealthDay join us in building a community-wide movement for change! Together, we can improve youth mental health and well-being in Greater Cincinnati. Learn more at hopefulempoweredyouth.org

“You’re not alone. There’s so many people in your life who are there to support, care about, and love you, as hard as it is to recognize in the moments that you’re struggling.” - Olive Weaver, HEY! Youth Fellow Hear from Olive about her involvement in HEY! and what we're working to accomplish in the recent Spectrum News 1 story: https://lnkd.in/gQrvcg_c

At HEY!, we center youth voices in every stage of the planning process to ensure that established strategies best support the needs of regional youth. Get to know the first cohort of Youth Fellows who shaped our 10-Year Strategy! https://lnkd.in/gTtUCvB3

Improving mental well-being requires cooperation across the entire community, and we are so thankful to our partners and donors for making this work possible! We leveraged an array of community expertise and perspectives to build and implement our youth-led strategy to shift outcomes impacting youth mental health and well-being. Learn more at hopefulempoweredyouth.org Youth At The Center, FSG SOCIAL IMPACT ADVISORS, Cohear, bi3, Interact for Health, Total Quality Logistics, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, MANUEL D AND RHODA MAYERSON FOUNDATION, Fifth Third Bank, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Greater Cincinnati Foundation