The Jed Foundation

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When you become a monthly donor, you’re helping young people when it matters most — today, tomorrow, and every day after. Your ongoing gift means more of each dollar goes directly to preventing youth suicide. Join us today.

Latest Updates

Students: Are You a Mental Health Advocate? Apply for JED’s Scholarship

Each year we honor one high school student and one college student for raising mental health awareness and inspiring positive change in their communities.

Where Suicide Prevention Starts: A Student’s Perspective

Student Mental Health Scholarships Awarded to Texas Region 10 Districts

OUR MISSION

The Jed Foundation (JED) is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.

Choosing Myself Over the Version I Pretended to Be

Texas Youth Advocacy Coalition Fellow Ivanna Sintes spent years performing happiness to survive. Now she’s learning that self-acceptance, not perfection, is what truly heals.

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Ivanna smiling at the YAC 2025 conference
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If you or someone you know needs to talk to someone right now, text, call, or chat 988 for a free confidential conversation with a trained counselor 24/7. 

You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741-741.

If this is a medical emergency or if there is immediate danger of harm, call 911 and explain that you need support for a mental health crisis.