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Layla
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I want to create a club centered around mental health involving youth voices. But I want to expand beyond just a generic informational club and the clubs already established at my school. What type of club can I start?
Hello! Life after high school to me means being a neuropsychologist. I'm very passionate about mental health and the brain. Currently, I am on a youth committee centered around youth voices advocating for mental health, and it has sparked an inspiration to start a club at my school involving mental health. What I see in this club is multiple things: neuroscience, psychology, mental health, policies, advocating, media, and youth voices. At my school, I expect there to already be mental health clubs, but I want to start a club that expands beyond that. I also want to contribute to things, create things, host events, rather than just be an informational club. This is something I'm very passionate about, but I want ideas about potential clubs I can start. I really want to involve different things in this club instead of just focusing on one main thing, for me, I want to involve both neuroscience, psychology, and mental health awareness.
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Chinyere Okafor
Educationist and Counseling Psychologist
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Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
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Chinyere’s Answer
Hi Layla,
You have a strong vision. You are working to create a genuine platform where adolescent voices, science, advocacy, and creativity converge rather than merely launching "another mental-health club." Future leaders in mental health and neuropsychology are motivated by just that kind of strategic thinking. You are far ahead of the curve because you now serve on a youth mental health committee.
What you're describing is more in line with a multidisciplinary innovation hub, a place where policy, media, psychology, neuroscience, and young activism all come together to create genuine impact, than with a standard awareness club. There may already be mental health clubs at your school, but none of them seem to be considering community-driven solutions, policy impact, youth-led programming, or research.
Establishing a Youth Brain & Wellness Innovation Council is a high-value approach. Neuroscience education, mental health awareness, innovative advocacy campaigns, student-led research, and collaborations with regional mental health groups would all be included in this kind of club. It turns into a learning laboratory as well as an impact engine.
In reality, your club might pioneer initiatives like student research on stress, sleep, or coping mechanisms, roundtables on mental health policies, brief neuroscience explainer videos, peer-led wellness seminars, and school-wide campaigns centered around storytelling. You may organize guest lecturers, form alliances with nearby colleges, or work on adolescent mental health projects with neighborhood organizations. The secret is to provide an environment where students can construct things rather than only discuss ideas.
Additionally, this kind of organization gives you the flexibility you've been longing for, room for kid voice, advocacy, science, and creativity all at once. You can expand the club's programming in accordance with student interest and community requirements, and you are not constrained by a specific subject.
You will create a club that not only exists but also promotes change if you approach this with an energetic and strategic mentality. And future employers, communities, and colleges notice that kind of leadership. Continue to lean into your vision. It's already pointing you in the direction of your intended work.
Best wishes!
You have a strong vision. You are working to create a genuine platform where adolescent voices, science, advocacy, and creativity converge rather than merely launching "another mental-health club." Future leaders in mental health and neuropsychology are motivated by just that kind of strategic thinking. You are far ahead of the curve because you now serve on a youth mental health committee.
What you're describing is more in line with a multidisciplinary innovation hub, a place where policy, media, psychology, neuroscience, and young activism all come together to create genuine impact, than with a standard awareness club. There may already be mental health clubs at your school, but none of them seem to be considering community-driven solutions, policy impact, youth-led programming, or research.
Establishing a Youth Brain & Wellness Innovation Council is a high-value approach. Neuroscience education, mental health awareness, innovative advocacy campaigns, student-led research, and collaborations with regional mental health groups would all be included in this kind of club. It turns into a learning laboratory as well as an impact engine.
In reality, your club might pioneer initiatives like student research on stress, sleep, or coping mechanisms, roundtables on mental health policies, brief neuroscience explainer videos, peer-led wellness seminars, and school-wide campaigns centered around storytelling. You may organize guest lecturers, form alliances with nearby colleges, or work on adolescent mental health projects with neighborhood organizations. The secret is to provide an environment where students can construct things rather than only discuss ideas.
Additionally, this kind of organization gives you the flexibility you've been longing for, room for kid voice, advocacy, science, and creativity all at once. You can expand the club's programming in accordance with student interest and community requirements, and you are not constrained by a specific subject.
You will create a club that not only exists but also promotes change if you approach this with an energetic and strategic mentality. And future employers, communities, and colleges notice that kind of leadership. Continue to lean into your vision. It's already pointing you in the direction of your intended work.
Best wishes!
Yasmin Mohamed Alamin
Clinical Nutrition Student
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Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
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Yasmin’s Answer
Hi Layla 👋🏻...
You can create something more unique than a typical awareness club by building a “Brain & Well-Being Action Club.” It blends everything you care about without feeling generic.
Picture it working in three simple ways:
Learn: Short, friendly mini-sessions about the brain, stress, emotions, habits, and how they affect students’ daily lives not lectures, just practical science.
Create: Instead of talking, the club makes things: coping-skills cards, short videos, infographics, small workshops, or guest speaker events. Students leave with real projects, not just meetings.
Advocate: Use youth voices to highlight real issues at school and suggest solutions. You can collect student input, collaborate with counselors, or host panels and campaigns.
This kind of club stands out because it mixes neuroscience, psychology, creativity, and real action. It becomes a place where students don’t just learn about mental health — they actually shape it in their school.
You can create something more unique than a typical awareness club by building a “Brain & Well-Being Action Club.” It blends everything you care about without feeling generic.
Picture it working in three simple ways:
Learn: Short, friendly mini-sessions about the brain, stress, emotions, habits, and how they affect students’ daily lives not lectures, just practical science.
Create: Instead of talking, the club makes things: coping-skills cards, short videos, infographics, small workshops, or guest speaker events. Students leave with real projects, not just meetings.
Advocate: Use youth voices to highlight real issues at school and suggest solutions. You can collect student input, collaborate with counselors, or host panels and campaigns.
This kind of club stands out because it mixes neuroscience, psychology, creativity, and real action. It becomes a place where students don’t just learn about mental health — they actually shape it in their school.
Yasmin Mohamed Alamin
Clinical Nutrition Student
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Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Updated
Yasmin’s Answer
Hi Layla 👋🏻...
You can create something more unique than a typical awareness club by building a “Brain & Well-Being Action Club.” It blends everything you care about without feeling generic.
Picture it working in three simple ways:
Learn: Short, friendly mini-sessions about the brain, stress, emotions, habits, and how they affect students’ daily lives not lectures, just practical science.
Create: Instead of talking, the club makes things: coping-skills cards, short videos, infographics, small workshops, or guest speaker events. Students leave with real projects, not just meetings.
Advocate: Use youth voices to highlight real issues at school and suggest solutions. You can collect student input, collaborate with counselors, or host panels and campaigns.
This kind of club stands out because it mixes neuroscience, psychology, creativity, and real action. It becomes a place where students don’t just learn about mental health they actually shape it in their school.
You can create something more unique than a typical awareness club by building a “Brain & Well-Being Action Club.” It blends everything you care about without feeling generic.
Picture it working in three simple ways:
Learn: Short, friendly mini-sessions about the brain, stress, emotions, habits, and how they affect students’ daily lives not lectures, just practical science.
Create: Instead of talking, the club makes things: coping-skills cards, short videos, infographics, small workshops, or guest speaker events. Students leave with real projects, not just meetings.
Advocate: Use youth voices to highlight real issues at school and suggest solutions. You can collect student input, collaborate with counselors, or host panels and campaigns.
This kind of club stands out because it mixes neuroscience, psychology, creativity, and real action. It becomes a place where students don’t just learn about mental health they actually shape it in their school.
Kamran Ali
Senior Engineering Manager
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Mokila, Telangana
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Kamran’s Answer
Your Club should reflect your personality.
Articulate the WHY in simple sentence and socialize it
People who resonate with it will naturally gravitate towards your club
Articulate the WHY in simple sentence and socialize it
People who resonate with it will naturally gravitate towards your club