UNITY Native Youth Town Hall Findings: Mental Health Needs

Mental Health Awareness and Coping Tools: During the Native Youth Town Halls, the most common answer that youth gave for addressing their community needs was to support Native youth mental health. Too often mental health and justice are kept in separate departmental boxes when our communities don’t work like that. Native youth share that every juvenile offender is in need of mental health resources. “Mental health is a vitally important topic, particularly now as the coronavirus pandemic is afflicting our communities, I’m proud to see our Native youth speaking before Congress, sharing their insight on what can and should be done to protect Native lives.” – Mary Kim Titla, UNITY Executive Director

Written by 92.9 The Torch