Young Minds Advocacy

06/13/2018

💚 OUR TEAM JUST GOT BIGGER! Tiffany and Katy, both law students going into their second years at UC Hastings, are our summer law clerks for 2018! For the next few months they will be helping our attorneys conduct legal research on issues that affect youth with mental health needs. Welcome Katy and Tiffany, we’re so lucky to have you! 📚💪🏼✨

05/09/2018

Hey folks! Check out this recap of Creative Advocacy 18 on our blog, where we share our favorite moments and some awesome snapshots from the night! For more pictures, head to our newly updated CA 18 FB photo album!
https://www.ymadvocacy.org/ca18-highlights/

Our 3rd annual Creative Advocacy, on April 28 2018, brought together YMA staff, friends, families, colleagues and allies for an inspirational night of community and celebration. We left feeling re-engerized in our advocacy work and fortunate for the incredible community we've created. Here are a few...

05/09/2018

05/04/2018

Join and .does.stuff tomorrow at at 11:30 am PDT for the summit’s first ever mental health panel! Chloe will be talking about young women’s mental health, and about our project, Gen Bold. More info at the link in our bio 🧡 Instructions for joining on last slide! || repost : “excited to help break down barriers and lift up women with the help of the phenomenal , & , among others! I’ll be speaking about women’s mental health and overcoming barriers to care at this weekend’s United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles ✊🏼” @ Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall

05/01/2018

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all that came out to our 3rd annual Creative Advocacy this weekend. Thank you for joining us in celebrating our community, the advocates we admire, and the young people whose truth will inform the future! Most importantly, thank you to our partners and friends for all of the love you pour into this work every day! 🧡 @ SOMArts Cultural Center

04/26/2018

JUST TWO MORE DAYS! Creative Advocacy is first and foremost a community celebration - which means that we can’t do it without you! Join us this Saturday, 6-9 pm, for youth art, food, an award ceremony, and live music! Most importantly, we’re excited for you to meet the community members that give us love & inspiration each day 🧡💙💚 Buy your tickets at the link in our bio, or at ymadvocacy.org/ca-event-2018! @ SOMArts Cultural Center

04/25/2018

: 3 DAYS LEFT! 💥 Pictured here is former Creative Advocacy awardee Chloe Sorensen, speaking at Stanford’s ChildX Conference 2018! Since receiving an award at our first Creative Advocacy, Chloe has gone on to become an incredible and outspoken advocate for youth mental health. We’re lucky to call her a part of the Young Minds family — Congratulations Chloe! 💛

Meet our 2018 CA awardees this Saturday at Creative Advocacy — buy your ticket today! 🎉

04/24/2018

: 4 DAYS LEFT! 💥 | These stunning pieces come to us from Los Angeles-based youth media group, Adolescent, and will be part of the gallery at Creative Advocacy this Saturday! We’ll have over a hundred incredible pieces on display from youth artists and organizations, and we’re stoked to share them with you all this weekend. Make sure to buy your Creative Advocacy tickets today at the link in our bio! 🎨 || The artists featured here include Whitney Saleski, Genevieve Nollinger, and Tajana Dedić-Starović, in that order.

04/23/2018

We get along with a little help from our friends! Thank you from the bottom of our heart to these sponsors, who are helping make Creative Advocacy — and Young Minds Advocacy's larger work — possible. It's shaping up to be an awesome event — don't forget to BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW at the link in our bio! || This year's CA18 is brought to you with the support of the Seneca Family of Agencies, the California Alliance of Child and Family Services, Casa Pacifica, Hathaway-Sycamores, and Lincoln agencies 💛

04/17/2018

Creative Advocacy is less than two weeks away! Young Minds Advocacy will be hosting an Art Workshop to help y'all prepare for our 3rd Annual Creative Advocacy!

Stop by the Palo Alto Art Center (1313 Newell Rd.) for our art workshop from 1 - 4 pm THIS SUNDAY, April 22, and create art to go up in our CA18 gallery. You can see your pieces on display! Feel free to bring friends — we'll provide the materials. See the attached flyer for more details.

04/11/2018

Welcome to our ! The piece you see below is part of our Creative Advocacy 2018 collection, and was created by UC Davis student and artist Quinn Hsu 😊. Our collection grows every day, and we are so excited to share more thought-provoking and powerful pieces with you. This is just a sneak peek, so make sure to buy your Creative Advocacy tickets today to see the full gallery of art on April 28!

Interested in having your art on display at our Creative Advocacy event? Good news - our submission form (https://www.ymadvocacy.org/ca-event-2018/submissions/) is still open! Check out our Call For Art (https://www.ymadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/CA18-Call-for-Art_final.pdf) for submission guidelines! 18 days to go!!

04/09/2018

Breaking news... we're in the Daily Journal! In this article, our Founder and President, Patrick Gardner, and our Staff Attorney and Policy Advocate, Nisha Ajmani, weigh in on California's youth mental healthcare crisis, calling out and calling on California's leadership to be more proactive. Read their article in full here!

https://www.callawyer.com/articles/346923-california-needs-more-proactive-leadership-on-youth-mental-health