Save our Suicide Prevention for Teens in Nevada County

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What's Up Wellness has been offering free, confidential and universal mental health screenings to any grade student whose family requests it for over 13 years. Out of these checkups we found traditional therapy wasn't a fit or accessible for some, so we got creative and were able to add the support of prevention groups in some of the schools we work in (writing, art, drumming, mindfulness). We eventually identified more needs with our youth and started our anti-racism group as well as our Spectrum Project. Learn more on our programs here: www.whatsupwellness.com

This fall of 2025 we are reinvigorating our fundraising campaign to assist us in continuing to offer our mental health checkups to teens after this 25-26 school year. Our main source of funding, the Mental Health Services Act, ends in June 2026. This funded all of our programs, so we are turning to our county for help.

We currently have help with grant writing and there are many in the works. What's out there funding wise tend to be scarce and we are worried that our mental health checkouts will not be able to continue in its entirety. We are in 14 schools in both the Grass Valley and Truckee areas. This includes high schools, some middle schools and charters.

We are reaching out to our community to help us reach teens throughout our county. We are so grateful to have a nonprofit sponsor so that folks can now have a tax deductible donation. Thank you to Once Upon a Time Therapy for their support!

Please consider donating during this critical time!