What Is Elevate Your Mind?

Starting in November 2024, our team decided to invest our efforts in a mental health social media campaign. We noticed that raising awareness of mental health allowed more students to identify potential concerns and address them. Our main goal was to reduce the stigma around academic stress and its correlation with parental relationships and/or family dysfunction.

Derrick Lee

Campaign Members

Ava Haghnaji

Hanna Haghnaji

Afruza Mamajonova

Mental Health Consultant

Our Mental Health consultant is one of our school's Psychologists, Mrs.Burja. We have met with her outside school hours, and have used her guidance and resources, along with her insightful feedback to help inform our peers.

Why We Chouse Our Topics

During the last two decades, youth suicide has increased significantly; suicide rates for Americans ages 10-24 rose 62% according to the CDC. After we did more research, we found that self-perceived academic performance was identified as a leading factor in suicide attempts and overall mental instability. Last year, there was an unfortunate incident from a student at our own school, which led to grievance and personal connection to the topic. This only further incentivized us to educate our peers on poor stress management. Academic pressure may come from family expectations or the ambitious goals students set for themselves, but it has come at the expense of their social and emotional development.