We unite and mobilize funders who support youth mental health and well-being in the U.S. through shared learning, alignment, and strategic collaboration.
Adolescence and young adulthood—roughly ages 10 to 25—represent a uniquely powerful period of possibility, a time when identity, purpose, and the building blocks of lifelong well-being take shape. Yet today’s youth are navigating mental health challenges at unprecedented levels, and too many face barriers to accessing timely, youth-centered care and support. Funders for Youth Mental Health (FYMH) is a funder table that harnesses philanthropy’s collective power to bridge fragmented systems, elevate youth and community perspectives, and help build a more aligned and coordinated approach to supporting youth mental health and well-being across the systems and environments that touch young people’s lives.
Our approach
We do this through monthly funder exchanges and deep learning on topics of interest. In addition, we facilitate targeted and timely conversations, aggregate and share resources, elevate co-funding opportunities, and facilitate connections among funders with similar interests.
Topics we have explored to date include narrative change for youth mental health, school-based mental health, state-based systems change, responding to shifts in the policy environment, youth-informed research methods, and youth engagement in funding decisions.
