Mental health support resources for youth programs
Resident asks for grants and training so youth programs can offer mental health support, including one-on-one work, as an alternative to police-based responses.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Youth programs need resources to provide mental health support - grants, having folks do 1:1 work, training youth, etc.
Who it helps and why
In general mental health struggles are stigmatized when there are so many racist systems that beat down on people, and then when people need support they can't get it and instead are criminalized. In general we need a community-led mental health crisis response without police, and counselors and youth leadership programs and restorative/transformative justice in schools instead of police and punishment and surveillance. To start with, some resources for programs to provide mental health support would help.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 16, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Human Services
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
Themes grouped with AI from resident idea text.
The same need in other cycles
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2025–26 (23 matching)
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