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May is
Mental Health Awareness Month

Connection is the key to emotional well-being. Whether it’s your roommates, your family, or members of your favorite fandom, you can flourish when you have people to rely on whenever things get tough. No matter who you are or what issues you’re dealing with, your people are out there—and connecting with them can be life-changing or even life-saving. 

Browse our Mental Health Awareness Month resources to find ways to connect with others and get connected to the mental health care you need and deserve. Life is challenging enough as it is. You don’t have to go it alone.

JED and Mindset by DIVE Studios collaborate for K-Pop and AAPI-focused content series, starring SEVENTEEN’s WONWOO.

In his 3-part video series, WONWOO opens up about the uncertainties he’s had in his career, how he deals with burnout, and what his fellow SEVENTEEN members and CARATs mean to him. 

The second of three episodes is now available to view globally for free on Mindset’s YouTube Channel.

How to Get Connected

Take Action for Mental Health

One of the best things we can do for our mental health is take action and make change. Join us this Mental Health Awareness Month in supporting the emotional well-being of teens and young adults, and discover how activism can be healing in hard times.

Connection Is Self-Care

When times are tough, we need to feel understood and know we are not alone. That’s what connection does. Get inspired by teens and young adults who take care of themselves by connecting with others, and find playful practices that will work for you.

How to Find Your People

Creating Connection Through K-Pop

Follow Atlantic senior editor Lenika Cruz into K-pop fandom to discover how this unique community offers connection, inclusion, validation, and sheer joy to folks of all races, identities, and backgrounds.

Finding Your LGBTQIA+ Community

Connecting with people who love you unconditionally and because of your queerness is one of the best ways to nurture your mental health. Learn how to find your LGBTQIA+ community no matter who you are or where you live.

Get connecting!

Be sure to follow The Jed Foundation on social media to tune in, repost, retweet, and share our weekly and daily activations. 

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And share these on your social channels to connect with your friends, family, and followers. 

Sample social text:

  • Connection is key to our well-being, because we can’t do this alone. Follow @jedfoundation for ways to connect with each other this #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth. For more resources, visit jedfoundation.org/MHAM2023.
  • When we connect with others, we can create change in our lives, our communities, and our world. Follow @jedfoundation during  #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth for ways to connect with others virtually and in person. For more resources, visit jedfoundation.org/MHAM2023.
  • For #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth @jedfoundation is focusing on connections. 💚 Throughout the month, check out the different ways teens and young adults can foster connection virturally and in person. jedfoundation.org/MHAM2023

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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.