The Youth Mental Health Corps (YMHC) is a collaborative initiative that will support youth mental health in schools and communities while giving over 500 young adults on-ramps into behavioral health careers throughout 2024 and beyond. California is one in ten states working to launch this initiative.

The YMHC has goals to meet youth where help is most acutely needed, offer young people interested in addressing our nation’s youth mental health crisis with quality training and credentials to start a career in behavioral health, increase the capacity of communities to respond to the growing youth mental health crisis, and share best practices on healthy social media use, digital safety and well-being and online safety with youth, school and community-based organizational staff, parents/care providers, and community members.