New Youth Opportunities on ReachOut!
Do you know any young people in California with a passion for affecting positive change? A knack for helping peers through tough times? Let them know: Inspire USA Foundation is putting out a call with their name on it! With the continued support of the California Mental Health Service Authority (CalMHSA), Inspire USA is thrilled to announce the expansion of digital [...]
CalMHSA Funds Three RO Initiatives in 2013
Three years after the launch of ReachOut.com, Inspire USA continues to seek out new and increasingly innovative ways to help teens and young adults help each other through tough times. This month, with funding from the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA), we are excited to announce a trio of California-based initiatives that will expand both the [...]
Inspire USA Welcomes ReachOut CA Director
Spring is a very exciting and eventful time here at Inspire USA. Along with celebrating three years of ReachOut.com helping teens and young adults lead healthier and happier lives, we’re also welcoming Nicola Survanshi into the fold in the newly created role of ReachOut California Director. Nicola joins us as a member of the Inspire leadership team with overall [...]
Reaching Out to Community College Students
In an effort to reach rural communities and transition-aged youth, CalMHSA contractors, Inspire USA and Runyon Saltzman & Einhorn (RS&E), presented an informational webinar about ReachOutHere.com to the California Community Colleges. The webinar was attended by community college administrators, faculty and staff. Presenters included Scott Rose, RS&E principal; Susan Keys, Inspire USA special advisor on [...]
Boys Town Helps Inspire USA Make An Impact
With over 3,000 forum members and nearly 150,000 unique visitors toReachOut.com in January 2013 alone, Inspire USA understands the importance of connecting youth in crisis to the resources they need. Boys Town, a support service available by phone at 1-800-448-3000 and online at yourlifeyourvoice.org 24 hours a day seven days a week, has remained a powerful partner in helping us [...]
Inspire USA Visits Oakland’s Project WHAT!
On November 29, Youth Programs Manager Emily O’Brien visited Project WHAT! in Oakland. Led by youth who have had a parent incarcerated, Project WHAT! (an acronym for We’re Here and Talking) is an educational social justice organization that raises awareness around issues experienced by children of incarcerated parents with the long term goal of improving the services, policies and outcomes that affect these children. Emily led [...]
Success @ ReachOut Content Developers Summit in SF
By Emily Densmore, ReachOut Intern On October 5, a diverse group of 12 young people from all over the state of California met at the Inspire headquarters in San Francisco. We had each been selected as Social Media Content Developers for the ReachOut Here campaign, funded by CalMHSA. Some of us, like myself, had previous [...]
San Mateo County Funds ReachOut Text Campaign
Inspire USA was thrilled to collaborate with San Mateo County over the last several months to bring a campaign of weekly inspirational ReachOut text messages to San Mateo youth. To help get the word out, San Mateo County Service providers distributed and displayed flyers and posters encouraging young people to text “reachout” to 61827 for [...]
California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) Launches Campaign to Engage Youth in Fight Against Stigma and Discrimination
July 3, 2012 by meredith
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California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) Launches Campaign to Engage Youth in Fight Against Stigma and Discrimination (via PR Newswire) SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Research, feedback from medical and social service experts, guidance by communications specialists and input from consumers of services, particularly young people themselves, were just some of the bases [...]
Inspire USA Announces Winners for Reach Out’s National ‘Don’t Just Stand By’ Teen Facebook App Developer Competition
July 3, 2012 by meredith
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For Immediate Release June 20, 2012 The Inspire USA Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the youth mental health site ReachOut.com, with the support of the ESA Foundation, today announced the winners of the National “Don’t Just Stand By” Teen Facebook App Developer Competition. This competition called on teens 13-18 to create a Facebook app that [...]
