you’re invited!
Our Minds Matter is proud to announce the release of When Teens Lead the Way, a white paper detailing the first-ever quantitative evidence that our peer-to-peer clubs create school-wide impact.
We are hosting a virtual brown bag panel conversation about these findings on October 21, and we would love for you to join us:
brown bag event:
When Teens Lead the Way:
Evidence of School-Wide Impact
in Peer-Led Mental Health
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 21 2025 | 1:00 – 2:15pm ET
Location: Virtual
RSVP: Click here to receive the Zoom link
The white paper will be publicly released immediately after the event.
Event Summary:
Upstream prevention is essential to solving the youth mental health crisis, especially in a time of rising loneliness, social isolation, and rapid upheaval from AI. Our Minds Matter is meeting this challenge in a unique way: by empowering teens themselves to take action for their own mental wellbeing and shape healthier school cultures for all.
Now, for the first time, new research provides evidence that our peer-to-peer model creates school-wide impact.
Data suggests OMM creates benefits beyond participating students — reaching the entire student body.
We hope you’ll join moderator Aras Jizan, Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation and former OMM Board Member, as he facilitates a dynamic conversation with researchers, leaders, and students from Our Minds Matter:
G Wei Ng, PhD (Our Minds Matter)
Jordan Booker, PhD (University of Missouri)
Douglas Gotel, LICSW, RPT-S (DC Public Schools), and
Chase Pantezzi, former OMM student.
Taken alongside previous years of external research and consistent internal evaluations, this new study helps bolster our core belief:
OMM’s work equipping teens with mental health skills ripples throughout our society.
Join us for a short virtual session, where we will:
Make sense of the research findings and what they mean for the youth mental health community.
Elevate key leverage points that drive impact in teen mental health interventions.
Share actionable strategies that will be relevant for school district leaders, school mental health professionals, institutional funders, mental health experts, and all of us invested in ending the youth mental health crisis.
Please join us on Oct 21 to get the first look at this groundbreaking research!