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Vienna Pharaon has these insightful questions to r

Vienna Pharaon has these insightful questions to reflect on the relationship you’ve built with your child. In 15 years, how will they look back on their childhood and their relationship to you, as a parent and caregiver?

What if you could use video games as a digital tre

What if you could use video games as a digital treatment for youth ADHD? 🎮🧠

Dr. Adam Gazzaley is making that possible by bridging the gap between neuroscience and technology.

“For a long time, medicine was drugs. Drugs do a lot of really important things to help people’s minds and their bodies… but it’s not the only medicine that exists. We’ve really created a silo around it. So, the ability to be able to open our minds and our perspective to new treatments to me is the most gratifying.”

Dr. Adam Gazzaley is a Professor in Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco, and the Founder & Executive Director of Neuroscape, a translational neuroscience center at UCSF. He is also the co-founder and Chief Science Advisor of Akili Interactive Labs, a company developing therapeutic video games. Dr. Gazzaley is also a member of AIM Youth Mental Health’s Scientific Advisory Board.

Read more about his innovative work on our blog 🧠

#adhd #adhdawareness #mentalhealthsupport

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Last minute openings in tomorrow’s Mental Health

Last minute openings in tomorrow’s Mental Health First Aid training! Be the trusted adult in your young person’s life by getting trained with the skills and knowledge about what to do and what to say in a mental health crisis.

Register through our website!

Ideas Lab is recruiting for 2025! This signature

Ideas Lab is recruiting for 2025!

This signature AIM program empowers high school students to conduct their own research on the state of youth mental health amongst their community and propose solutions that AIM elevates to researchers, policymakers, and other community members.

If you’re a student who is interested in:
🧠 discussing mental health with peers
🧠 discovering emerging issues + develop solutions
🧠 gaining experience in research + data analysis
🧠 earning +12 hours of community service
🧠 connecting to your community

Sign up for this 8-week program taking place from January 27 - March 17 2025!

Follow the link in our bio or email mariana@AIMymh.org for more information.

A youth participant in the AIM Ideas Lab shared th

A youth participant in the AIM Ideas Lab shared the value she got from the initiative. The AIM Ideas Lab is focused on elevating the voices of youth in discovering emerging mental health issues and advocating for solutions to address mental health challenges in their communities.

This 8-week program is recruiting for our 2025 cohort! Sign up today via our link in bio.

With suicide being the 3rd leading cause of death

With suicide being the 3rd leading cause of death for youth ages 10-19, AIM is working toward a world without suicide by funding critical youth mental health research, including suicide prediction & prevention research, that is working to help youth now.

With over half the deaths attributed to suicide ha

With over half the deaths attributed to suicide happening under the age of 50 we believe suicide prevention starts in childhood with education and supportive policies in the classroom.