Teen HYPE - Amplifying the Voices of Detroit's Black Youth

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Teen HYPE, a nonprofit youth development organization, fosters the kind of safe, inclusive and creative environment that allowed Austin and Green to not only find the mental support they needed to come out of their shells, but to become leaders for the next generation.
Black communities in Detroit face increasing rates of anxiety and depression and have disproportionately fewer ways to access mental health care. This is why Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the BCBSM Foundation and six philanthropic partners set out to reduce these disparities by targeting funding to Black-led community-based organizations through a pilot program launched in 2022.
One of the organizations to receive funding was Teen HYPE, which provides youth development programming and leadership education through a research-based framework that targets Detroit youth between 13 and 18 years old. Much of Teen HYPE’s approach involves around destigmatizing discussions about mental health among Black and Brown youth, by uplifting the power of youth voice to challenge perceptions about what is happening in the community.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, a nonprofit mutual insurance company, is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. BCBSM provides and administers health benefits to more than 4.4 million members residing in Michigan in addition to employees of Michigan-headquartered companies who reside outside the state.
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