How You Can Help

How You Can Help

Whatever your background, there is a role for you in helping our adolescents and young adults achieve their potential.

Mental Health Practitioners

As a mental health practitioner, you help your patients’ lead healthy and productive lives.  By treating the whole person, you have the power to implement approaches that will help stop the progression of severe mental illness in its tracks.

That’s why your support is critical to EDIPPP as we build the evidence to promote the best clinical practices for our patients and learn how to apply that evidence.

The EDIPPP research treatment initiative seeks to identify and respond to risk factors earlier in the life of our youth to minimize the negative impacts of severe mental illness. Through this work, EDIPPP hopes to reduce the number of adolescents diagnosed with severe mental illness.

As a mental health professional, you can take action today to help EDIPPP mobilize for change:

Health Practitioners

Medical practitioners often have the first opportunity to identify signs of mental illness in adolescents and young adults and play a vital role in the overall health of our youth.

EDIPPP is here to help you learn more about the impact of severe mental illness on our adolescent population and stop it in its tracks.

Your support of EDIPPP research will help build the vital evidence we need to effectively intervene and treat young people with severe mental illnesses in their early stages. As an EDIPPP supporter, you can help young people at risk for severe mental illness to lead rewarding and productive lives.

As a medical professional, you can advance the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Early Detection and Intervention for the Prevention of Psychosis Program today when you:

  • Review our videos at our YouTube channel to learn more about our work.
  • Invite a local EDIPPP professional to talk about our research and its potential for change at your professional association’s next meeting.
  • Invite a local EDIPPP professional to talk about our research and potential for change at your next educational opportunity, such as grand rounds or lunch-and-learns.
  • Invite your peers to learn about EDIPPP by visiting ChangeMyMind.org. Click here to send them an email.
  • Tell us what information you’d like to see, in order to move this urgent mission forward. Send us an email at edippp@mmc.org.

Mental Health Community Supporters

Whether you represent a mental health advocacy organization, have been helped personally by mental health practitioners, or simply share our desire to develop better tools and treatments to stop the progression of severe mental illness in its tracks – we welcome your support.

We want your involvement as we build the evidence that will support reshaping clinical approaches. And armed with the information provided by EDIPPP on this site, your voice will be a powerful force across all communities as we work together to mobilize change in policies that advance mental health research, early detection and treatment for young people with severe mental illness.

As a Mental Health Community Supporter, you mobilize change today when you:

  • Link to ChangeMyMind.org from your website or blog.
  • Review our videos at our YouTube channel to learn more about our work.
  • Invite a local EDIPPP professional to talk about our research, and its potential for change, at your association’s next meeting.
  • Invite your peers to learn about EDIPPP by visiting ChangeMyMind.org. Click here to send them an email.
  • Tell us what information you’d like to see, in order to move this urgent mission forward. Send us an email at edippp@mmc.org.

Policy Makers & Philanthropists

The issue of severe mental illness transcends politics. Neither blue nor red, mental illness in adolescents and young adults affects communities represented by legislators on both sides of the aisle.

Policy Makers and Philanthropists have a powerful role to play in actively supporting mental health research that focuses on early detection and evidence-based treatment. With your help, we can learn more about how to stop the progression of severe mental illnesses in their tracks.

Add your voice to ours as we build the evidence that will reshape clinical approaches and advance mental health research, early detection and treatment for severe mental illness such as schizophrenia.

When you help us mobilize change, you help create the opportunity for many more young people to become productive members of our society.

  • Link to ChangeMyMind.Org from your website or blog.
  • Support funding for ongoing evidence collection, interpretation, application and revision to ensure the long-term success and continual improvement of EDIPPP.
  • Invite a local EDIPPP professional to talk about our research, and it’s potential for change, at your association’s next meeting.
  • Review our videos at our YouTube channel to learn more about our work.

Education Leaders & Supporters

Adolescents and young adults suffering from mental illness need support at home, in the doctor’s office and at school.  Teachers, superintendents, principals, and college professors can help keep adolescents and young adults in school, advance their academic achievement, and enable them to become contributing members of the community. They can also support the early detection of severe mental illnesses in their students.

EDIPPP is calling on national school leaders to join us as partners and to support new, evidence-based approaches for stopping the progression of severe mental illness. And we ask everyone involved with the school system to add their voice to ours as we build the evidence that could reshape clinical approaches and create more opportunities for young people to live healthy, rewarding and productive lives.

You can help the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation support the Early Detection and Intervention for the Prevention of Psychosis Program today when you:

  • Review our videos at our YouTube channel to learn more about our work.
  • Invite a local EDIPPP professional to talk about our research and its potential for change at your professional association’s next meeting.
  • Invite a local EDIPPP professional to talk about our research and its potential for change at your next professional education/staff development training.
  • Invite your peers to learn about EDIPPP by visiting ChangeMyMind.org. Click here to send them an email.
  • Tell us what information you’d like to see, in order to move this urgent mission forward. Send us an email at edippp@mmc.org.

Law Enforcement Associations and Members

Every day, more stories emerge about young adults diverted into the judicial system, despite having the signs and symptoms of mental illness. Instead of receiving the support and treatment they require, too many of our adolescents end up in jail. Law enforcement officers recognize it, judges in juvenile courts see it every day – yet a lack of effective options ties their hands.

Severe mental illness is a chronic disease that is needlessly stealing the lives of too many of our adolescents and young adults. It can often result in criminal behavior for a youth who didn’t receive the right services.  Young people and their families all suffer as a consequence of crime that could have been avoided.

To help keep young people out of the legal system and advance their ability to become contributing, law-abiding members of the community, we need the support of representatives of the legal and judicial systems to improve the early detection of severe mental illness. We ask you to join us as partners in building new, evidence-based approaches for stopping the progression of severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, in its tracks.

Help mobilize change that will prevent crime, keep our communities safe, and stop mental illness in its tracks:

  • Review our videos at our YouTube channel to learn more about our work.
  • Invite a local EDIPPP professional to talk about our research, and its potential for change, at your professional association’s next meeting.
  • Invite your peers to learn about EDIPPP by visiting ChangeMyMind.org. Click here to send them an email.
  • Tell us what information you’d like to see, in order to move this urgent mission forward. Send us an email at edippp@mmc.org.