About Team: Changing Minds
Team: Changing Minds (T:CM) is an award winning collaboration between three not for profit organizations, supported through Harry’s Inc., our founding investor.
Each of our partners plays an important role in providing our nationwide networks of caring adults in young people’s lives to identify, understand and respond when the early signs of a mental health challenge arises and connecting them with support before those challenges become crises.
FUTURES Without Violence
A health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow.
Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM), a FUTURES program, has proven results in impacting the lives of youth. With focus on athletic coaches, CBIM found that nonparental role models provide a unique avenue for coaches to positively impact how young male athletes think and behave. In fact, Coaches who engaged with the CBIM curriculum presented changes that impacted both the coach’s confidence to enact behavior changes as well as their willingness to exhibit concrete positive behavior changes.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth through the work of our 230 local affiliates serving 5,000 communities across the nation.
Since 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is incredible potential. As the nation’s largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”) ages 5 through young adulthood. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people.
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
A membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,400 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve.
Through the National Council’s Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) program, more than 3 million people in the U.S. have been trained to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges. Peer-reviewed studies conducted show that individuals trained in MHFA increase their mental wellbeing literacy and confidence to help someone in distress, show reduced sigma and increased empathy toward individuals with mental health challenges, and use the skills and information they learn in MHFA to manage their own mental wellbeing.
Founding Investor: Harry’s
By setting aside 1% of sales to support our social mission, we’ve helped 2 million men (and counting) access the mental health care they need and donated over $12 million dollars to our network of nonprofit partners.
Together Team: Changing Minds’s collective goal is to transform how mental health and wellness support is delivered to young people all across America – helping to augment (but in no way replace) the critical role mental health experts and providers play in helping young people to heal.