Equipping Individuals | The Jed Foundation
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Equipping Individuals

The Jed Foundation (JED) provides trusted tools, real-life guidance, and inspiring stories to help you care for yourself — and others. We work with young people, parents and caregivers, content creators, entertainment leaders, and cultural influencers to change how mental health is seen, talked about, and supported.

Tools for Mental Health

Mental Health Resource Center

Practical tools and expert answers — made for real life. Find resources to help you manage your emotional health, cope with challenges, and find support. Topics include managing stress, understanding anger and loneliness, navigating relationships, and more.

Be There for Someone

Help My Friend

Learn how to recognize when a friend might be struggling and what to say, do, or share to help them feel seen and supported.

Help My Teen or Young Adult

Practical guidance and emotional support for caregivers of teens and young adults — including how to have tough conversations and foster emotional well-being at home.

Help My Students

Resources and tools for educators, counselors, and school leaders to support student mental health and emotional development.

Tools for Transition: Set to Go

Resources for students, caregivers, and educators

The move beyond high school can be exciting — and overwhelming. Set to Go helps students prepare emotionally for life after high school and equips parents and educators with strategies to guide them. Whether it’s college, work, or a gap year, these tools are designed to build resilience, reduce stress, and support mental health.

Watch, Listen, Learn

Mind Matters

Creators Lev Cameron, Ashley Yi, Gavin Magnus, zoeunlimited, and more join JED experts for this engaging and evidence-based series that explores topics like depression, eating disorders, loneliness, and more — plus strategies to manage them.

Storytelling and Culture Change

Resources for Creatives, Media, Executives, and Funders

Shaping the stories that shape us.

With more than two decades of experience across media, entertainment, and pop culture, JED partners with creators, media professionals, and cultural leaders to tell stories and launch campaigns that promote emotional well-being and prevent suicide for teens and young adults. 

Whether you are a creator, media executive or funder, join us to change how mental health is seen and supported.

JED’s Impact at a Glance

See where we’re making an impact across the country.

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Reach of JED’s campaigns and resources last year

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Teens and young adults use the JED Mental Health Resource Center each month.

Areas of Focus

Actionable Research and Guidance

JED uncovers and shares insights into youth mental health and representation. We provide practical tools for media makers — including guides for scripting, casting, and production that responsibly address mental health topics.

 

Expert Pop Culture & Media Consulting

JED works behind the scenes to advise studios, producers, and creators with:

Messaging strategy and narrative consultation

Workshops and storytelling trainings

Mental health integration into campaigns and experiences

Innovative Content and Campaigns

JED helps to reshape how we think, talk, and act about mental health by reaching youth where they are through the people and brands they trust. We partner to create bold, resonant content that normalizes mental health conversations, encourages help-seeking, and inspires action — whether through video series, music collaborations, or creator-driven campaigns.

What People Are Saying

I remember scrolling through [JED’s] website almost five years ago while on the phone with a crisis helpline and feeling a sense of empowerment and hope that I, too, could one day work to ensure no teenager has to feel the pain my friends and I experienced as lost and confused middle schoolers. Thank you for making that dream come true.

— Crystal Waldo, Student Voice of Mental Health Award winner

As the creative studio behind top creators, reaching millions is always a goal — but when a project can make a real impact while doing it, that’s something special. Huge thanks to JED and YouTube for the opportunity to create something meaningful.

— Jesse Dueck, co-founder at Room 1041

News and Updates

New YouTube Digital Series with JED and Room 1041 Aims to Engage Teens on Mental Health (AP News)

Spotify to Give $50,000 in Grants to Authors of Unpublished Stories Featuring ‘Exceptional’ Depictions of Mental Health (Variety)

Trae Young, Master P, Iman Shumpert Talk Mental Health In New ‘Invisible Game’ Series (Forbes)

Sabrina Carpenter Fund raised nearly $600,000 to support organizations promoting mental health, LGBTQ+ rights, and animal welfare, including The Jed Foundation (Music Connection)

The Television Academy and JED teamed up with MTV Entertainment and the showrunners of Wolf Pack and Never Have I Ever to share tips and tools for creating youth mental health stories that resonate with and support them (Emmy.com)

SEVENTEEN’s Wonwoo Gets Vulnerable About Mental Health in New Mindset Collection (Teen Vogue)

Get Help Now

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.