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In its inaugural year, DoSomething's EMBER collective, centered on the principles of Empathy, Mindfulness, and Building Emotional Resilience (EMBER), has made significant strides for youth-centered #MentalHealthAwareness. 🧠 💪 Listen to the insights of young leaders and EMBER members in #California as they discuss their #CampReboot experiences with Arielle Corbin-Contreras, M.Ed. of Blue Shield of California:

✨"Your Voice is Your Power" - I'm so thrilled to share that my first News Center article got published today!! 🤍 This story is especially close to my heart -- spotlighting the stories of three California youth leaders pioneering innovative mental health initiatives through DoSomething.org's EMBER Collective, and Blue Shield of California's #BlueSky Initiative. 🩵 My journey into #DEI and community engagement work began with my own mental health journey as a teenager, experiencing first hand the lack of culturally competent mental health resources, and the importance of destigmatizing mental health in our communities. I am forever inspired by the leaders of this #nextgeneration, and am thrilled to work at a company that consistently invests significant time and resources into supporting BlueSky’s youth #mentalhealth pillars — access, awareness and advocacy. Paula Ambrose (she/her) said it best, ""Anyone — regardless of age — can ignite progress and change the world." 🌎🌱 -- Thank you to our stellar youth leaders, Niku Sedarat, Prateek Sunder, and Sophie K! And to my incredible communications and citizenship team for creating these opportunities and supporting such phenomenal programs - Antoinette Mayer, Perry Chen, Maria Stokes, Laine Himmelmann, and Jamie Menaker! #DEI #youthmentalhealth #dosomething #communityengagement #destigmatizementalhealth #selfcare #mentalhealthawareness

On Monday, July 15th, Generation Citizen, DoSomething.org, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts came together to invite civically minded, creative teens to an all-day program of workshops and collaboration. Centering arts, activism, community building, and art-making, this inspiring event brought together young poets like 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate @Stephanie Pacheco (Instagram: @thestephaniepacheco) and Shay the Poet (Instagram: @shay.thepoet), as well as other all-around creatives, to hold space for other young people who want to be more active participants in democracy and change. We look forward to more opportunities to allow young people to take center stage and allow their voices to be heard! More photos and videos to come from this extraordinary event! #youthempowerment #civics #civicengagement #election2024 #youthactivism

Listen to CNN's Sara Sidner this morning at 9:50 am EST as she interviews our CEO DeNora Getachew about youth voting perspectives: https://lnkd.in/gXJWzHbf

DoSomething's website has a new look! Check out this opportunity to test the first part of our updated digital platform. Then share your feedback so we can make it even better. We’re seeking participants for a few hour-long, virtual user evaluation sessions, during which, we’ll ask you to provide insights and feedback on the experience of our new site and platform. To learn more and get involved: https://bit.ly/3Y9Vl3n

JOB OPP! If you're looking for a way to "do something" BIG (changing the world, anyone?), check out this role at DoSomething.org...a great mix of #research #strategicconsulting #marketing. Nice find, Frank J. Oswald. Looking at you, Columbia University SPS MS in Strategic Communication #students #alumni!

Our DoSomething summer interns living their best lives. We LOVE to see it. #WeDidThat

Our DoSomething team had an amazing time earlier this week with members of Generation Citizen at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. While there, we held a "Show Up For What" workshop focused on public narrative and #VoterRegistration. Check out the highlights on our Instagram Stories! #WeDidThat #DoSomething #GenZ #TeenSummit2024

The incredible impact our members made at #CampReboot on #MentalHealth is truly remarkable! DoSomething members learned skills to manage their mental health through #MindCraft, learned how to talk confidently about mental health with their friends through #CertifiedBestie, and transformed ideas into reality through our mental health community of practice, The E.M.B.E.R Collective (The Empathy, Mindfulness, and Building Emotional Resilience Collective). DoSomething members now have the tools and resources to address mental health challenges and support others on their journeys. What skills or knowledge do YOU need to know to navigate your mental health?

Congratulations to my colleague Yasmine Mahdavi on her article "Volunteerism's Diversity Problem" being published in Stanford Social Innovation Review. It's a must read as she highlights the challenges of modern volunteerism as new generations of young people coming of age pressing for systemic change. Their civic curiosity often begins with volunteerism, but as she notes in the article volunteerism hasn't kept up with the diversification of Gen Z and Gen Alpha. To quote her "young people with limited social capital are more likely to have fewer connections to institutions that either facilitate or provide opportunities to participate in civic life." We're doing our part DoSomething.org, but the entire volunteer sector needs to evolve. I encourage you to give her piece a read. #volunteerism #getengaged #youngpeople