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Starting the Year Off Right With JED’s Top Self-Care Ideas

Check out these resources for ways to take care of yourself this year and beyond. From getting better sleep to finding more joy, JED has your back with simple self-care activities you can add to your routine as you focus on starting the year off right.

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JED Receives $40 Million Gift From MacKenzie Scott

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Where Suicide Preventions Starts: A Student’s Perspective

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OUR MISSION

The Jed Foundation (JED) is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.

Equipping Individuals

JED equips teens and young adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other.

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Strengthening Schools

JED partners with high schools, districts, and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems.

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Mobilizing Communities

JED encourages community awareness, understanding, and action for young adult mental health.

Mobilizing Communities

Choosing Myself Over the Version I Pretended to Be

Texas Youth Advocacy Coalition Fellow Ivanna Sintes spent years performing happiness to survive. Now she’s learning that self-acceptance, not perfection, is what truly heals.

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If you or someone you know needs to talk to someone right now, text, call, or chat 988 for a free confidential conversation with a trained counselor 24/7. 

You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741-741.

If this is a medical emergency or if there is immediate danger of harm, call 911 and explain that you need support for a mental health crisis.