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Latest Updates

Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Partners with JED to Create Suicide Postvention Guide

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Texas Youth Stories: Real Voices. Real Change.

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JED, Spotify, & The Black List Announce Five Impact Award Grant Recipients

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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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Ivanna smiling at the YAC 2025 conference
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Get Help Now

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.