HHS Children and Youth Resilience Challenge Finalist: Project Mindful Matters

Project Mindful Matters is an innovative, community-oriented, collaborative approach to solving the youth mental health crisis with the goal of building resilience and improving the mental health outcomes among BGCBC's youth in Benton County. This approach is a culmination of the best practices of other Boys & Girls Clubs around the country and will expand access to critical mental health services to every Club kid who walks through BGCBC's doors after school and in the summer.
Project Mindful Matters was a finalist in the national Children and Youth Resilience Challenge. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the Resilience Challenge as part of President Biden’s Unity Agenda and Mental Health Strategy and an initiative of the HHS Behavioral Health Coordinating Council Subcommittee on Children and Youth. All Resilience Challenge finalists participated in an Innovation Showcase on May 2, 2024. Watch the event recording: • Children and Youth Res... . Learn more: www.challenge.gov/?challenge=....