MAKE MENTAL HEALTH YOUR PRIORITY
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
i-Matter is dedicated to create opportunities for communities to promote education, awareness and understanding, and reduce stigma about mental health.
IT STARTS WITH YOU
prioritize it
The power is in your hands to be anything you want to become.
Make Your Mental Health A Priority
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46%
new or worsening mental health conditions since the pandemic
Covid has put every child in the State of California and the nation under unprecedented stress: Personal trauma, economic and learning loss, and continuing uncertainty.
University of Michigan Health
WE ALL HAVE MENTAL HEALTH, JUST LIKE PHYSICAL HEALTH
50%
Half of all mental conditions starts by age fourteen
80%
Anxiety affects 30% of children and adolescents, yet 80% never get help
70%
of all students age 14 or older with mental illness have one or more mental disorders
90%
of those who died by suicide had underlying mental disorders
Source: National Alliance on Mental Health
Our Mission
Important at every stage of life, mental health affects the way a person thinks, feels, relates to others, and behaves. i-Matter creates opportunities for communities to promote education, awareness and understanding of how to care for and support the whole person.
100%
Mental health stigma affects all ethnicities and cultures
18%
of the general U.S. population take advantage of mental health services
300%
Asian Americans are three times less likely to seek help than other racial groups in the U.S
FACING DISCRIMINATION AS A YOUNG ADULT MAKES YOU more LIKELY TO
DEVELOP SHORT AND LONG-TERM MENTAL PROBLEMS
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