Youth Worker Well-Being
Youth benefit when youth workers are engaged, aware of the needs of youth and families, knowledgeable about best practices, and when they can cope effectively with stress.
The Youth Worker Well-Being Project is a collaborative statewide effort to address individual youth worker well-being, workplace conditions, and root causes of stress in the sector to promote meaningful change in youth workers and invest in their well-being so they can provide the highest quality services for Indiana youth.
Programming & Supports:
- Access to telemedicine & virtual mental health services for up to 10,000 youth workers.
- Peer Support Groups to provide opportunities for youth workers to share experiences, support one another, and gain tools and practices to deal with stress and trauma.
- Emerging Leaders of Color Fellowship to ensure youth-serving organizations increase and sustain progress toward being welcoming and inclusive workplaces and close equity gaps in leadership.
- Grant opportunities for youth-serving organizations to apply for more than $6 million in funding to pilot and/or implement customized strategies that improve:
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB)
- Trauma-informed workplaces
- Convening for the leaders of youth-serving organizations (virtually and in-person) to share information on how to improve working conditions and business practices to improve youth worker well-being.
Mental Health Resources from the Public:
If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide and seeking emotional support, there are crisis lines available via phone, chat, or text
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 (TALK)
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Online Chat Services
- Crisis Text line: Text IN to 741741 for free, 24/7 crisis counseling. We’re here for you.
- Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860
- Trevor Project Lifeline (confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth): 866-488-7386
- TrevorChat
- TrevorText: Text START to 678-678.
- Veterans Crisis Line (for military service members, veterans, and family): Call 800-273-8255 and press 1
- Text 838255
- Support for deaf and hard of hearing: 800-799-4889
- Homeless Veterans Chat
- Youthline
- Find Drug & Alcohol Rehab Centers & Support
If a suicide attempt has occurred, call 911 immediately or go to a nearby hospital emergency room.
from in.gov/issp
Black Hoosiers:
YOUNG MEN, INC. YOUTH MINISTRY:
A program designed to empower African American males and youth in historically marginalized communities ages 9-16, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
Free therapy vouchers and services to connect black women and girls with culturally, racially, and gender competent mental health services
A youth development organization that provides mentoring-based programs
A program facilitated by African American family members of loved ones with a mental health condition
Hispanic/Latinx Hoosiers
An organization that serves Central Indiana’s Latino community through services and community events
Monthly meeting designed to create space for people in the African American and Latinx communities of Indianapolis to have conversations about mental health that is shaped by and for Black and Latinx individuals
Provides a directory of Latinx therapists and other resources for the Latinx community on mental health
Indigenous People:
THE AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF INDIANA
AICI’s Circle of Wellness Program, provides health education, screenings, and referral services to American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Hawaiians in Indiana
A comprehensive health resource for Native youth by Native youth, promoting holistic health and positive growth in local communities and nationwide
A resource to improve prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use problems and services among Native people
Asian American Hoosiers
ASIAN MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE
AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide
NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
NAAPIMHA strives to raise awareness of the role of mental health in Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
SOUTH ASIAN MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE AND NETWORK
The SAMHIN provider network includes mental health professionals with a strong desire to provide counseling to the South Asian community
THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND FOR QUEER AND TRANS BLACK AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF COLOR
Provides financial assistance to QTBIPOC to increase access to mental health support
The world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people
NATIONAL QUEER ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER ALLIANCE
a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander organizations
Donate to MCCOY and get a Mental Health Matters shirt!
Anyone who donates to MCCOY this month receives a shirt from our Mental Health Matters initiative.
