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Mental Makeover
Changing the WAY.
Wellness | Awareness | Youth Education
Mental Makeover is a mental health-focused non-profit organization committed to fighting the stigma surrounding mental health and empowering young people to learn about mental health and share their own thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
Through our core values, spreading our mission, and implementing other engaging, educational tools, we are working to change the way we talk about mental health as a local, national, and global community. We strive to be proactive rather than reactive.
Our logo represents our mission. The light bulb encompassing the brain represents thinking of mental health in a positive light. The box represents the stigma from which we are breaking away from.
Our Core Values
Recognize – Our goal is to have people be able to recognize signs, symptoms, and actions of negative mental health conditions. We want people to recognize when others or they themselves may be struggling, as well as what resources and/or self-care methods are available to them.
Accept – We must accept as a community that mental health is stigmatized. We must accept that mental health is equally as important as physical health. We must accept where we are in our own mental health journeys, and accept the challenge to face our struggles and work towards committing to a healthier mindset/mental well-being. Change cannot occur without acceptance!
Inspire – We want to inspire others to talk about their own struggles, and to change the way that they think about mental health. We want to inspire people to become advocates, supporters and stigma fighters.
Self-Awareness – In order to truly know what you need mentally, physically and spiritually you must be able to listen to yourself, understand yourself and know yourself on a deeper level. Whether it is being aware of our emotions and why we are feeling them, being aware of our energy around certain people, or being aware of when we need a mental rest, self-awareness is crucial to our mental health.
Educate – As a community, we need to pass along our knowledge to anyone and everyone. We need to start conversations and share our stories to destigmatize mental health. We need to be activists for implementing early education in our communities.
What goes into a “Mental Makeover”?
A Mental Makeover is exactly as it sounds. It is the way in which we fundamentally change our way of thinking about mental health. Similar to how we do a home makeover, we take everything down from the very foundation and build everything back up. We need to educate and talk to youth about mental health from an early age and set that foundation to help them understand, navigate, and cope with their mental health in healthy ways throughout their adolescent years and into adulthood. We need to actively use our voices and share our stories to end the stigma: the negative perception around mental health struggles and mental disorders, the hurtful jokes, the insensitive remarks, the de-normalization of receiving treatment, etc. Everyone has mental health. It should not be a topic of conversation we avoid or shy away from. We need a makeover. We need to change the way. We need mental health wellness support, awareness, and youth education among our local, national, and global communities.
Engaging Mental Health Education Tools for Youth
We aim to create engaging, educational tools that empower children and trusting adults to initiate conversations about mental health in school, at home, and in other settings. We want to implement early education and intervention so that youth will have the necessary knowledge and devices to understand, navigate, and cope with their mental health in healthy ways throughout their life. We believe that early education is fundamental in changing the mental health crisis and ending the stigma surrounding mental health. Thus far, we have created:
A Mental Makeover Board Game for ages 5+
Mental Makeover Education Boxes: Understanding Emotions
Creating Powerful Mental Health Support Tools for Adolescents and Adults
Every 40 seconds, someone in this world dies by suicide. We need more at-home, accessible resources for struggling adolescents and adults. We have created a support tool called The World Needs You Here box. This box is filled with activities, resources, and coping tools to support an individual who is experiencing a mental health crisis, mental health disorder symptoms, or a time of struggle. We aim to bring these boxes into homeless shelters, guidance counselor offices, psychiatric units, therapy offices, at-home settings, and other places in need.
