Our Coalition Members are the leading nonprofit organizations working to provide services and advocate for the community living with, and affected by, mental health conditions. Get involved with our members...
Today is World Bipolar Day. Learn about the symptoms and get screened for Mania, Depression and Anxiety via the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance's Screening Center. These online screening...
The Mental Health Coalition is proud to sign a historic vision to re-envision our country’s mental health and substance use care system, at a time when we may need it...
If you’re living with disordered eating and struggling with your body image, you’re not alone. Learn ways to cope from MHC member organization, Crisis Text Line
Hear from The Trevor Project's Black employees who share their oral history to reflect on a life-changing year. They get personal about how 2020 impacted their relationship to mental health...
Dr. Doreen Marshall, Ph.D., AFSP Vice President of Mission Engagement and MHC member organization, shares how to cope when you can’t see the path ahead. This article originally appeared in...
Dempris Gasque is a community advocate with a passion for human rights & Co-Author of the bestselling book, "There is No Health Without Mental Health Anthology: Men & Mental Health...Let's...
MHC member organization Fountain House has assembled a list of policy recommendations to support our collective mental health that are politically feasible, strategically sound, and morally imperative. Enacting the recommended...
In this new book, The Scaffold Effect, world-renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Harold Koplewicz, Founding president and director of the Child Mind Institute and MHC members organization shares how to prevent...
Active Mind launches send Silence Packing: Beyond the Backpacks. This exhibit is an online gallery where users are able to learn about suicide's impact, explore ways that their everyday actions...
MHC member The Trevor Project provides information on how to be an an ally to transgender and nonbinary people. Learn about the difference between sex and gender, the basics of...
In celebration of Black History Month, MHC member Mental Health America are highlighting Black and African American contributions to the mental health movement because they are oftentimes overlooked. Without recognizing...
By Mental Health America
41 more stories to explore
IN AN
EMERGENCY
If you or a friend need urgent assistance, call 911 immediately, or take your friend directly to the emergency room. If you feel it’s safe, stay with your friend, or find someone to stay with them until help arrives.
You are never alone. Help is always available. For immediate support 24/7, reach out to the Crisis Text Line by texting COALITION to 741741, or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. It’s free and it’s highly confidential, unless it’s essential to contact emergency services to keep you or your friend safe.
Our Groundbreaking New Initiative for Youth Mental Health
The Mental Health Coalition is embarking on a multi-year journey to transform youth mental health in the digital space via the Safe Online Standards for Kids’ Mental Health (S.O.S) initiative. In this first-of-its-kind effort, MHC is bringing together an unprecedented group of global experts across disciplines to develop credible, data-driven standards for kids on technology platforms.