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Fact: You deserve mental health support. ❤️

DoSomething and Blue Shield of CA are activating young people nationwide to help improve their friends’ mental health, even while social distancing. We want to hear from you! Join our New State of Mind campaign and share your best stress or anxiety tip with us to be part of this first-of-its-kind crowdsourced mental health guide: DoSomething.org/TIPS or text TIPS to 38383

Take Marcus’s advice and join our Would You Rather? campaign to get access to a helpful guide on ways to make and save money, which could come in handy in these times: DoSomething.org/MONEY, or text MONEY to 38383

Me to my guy friends on #SelfCareSunday.

Do you even self-care, bro? 💆‍♂️ 💆🏽‍♂️ 💆🏾‍♂ 💆🏿‍♂️

Did you know that men are only half as likely to recognize their own mental health symptoms? 

Share one of our Mental (Health) Notes to start the conversation about mental health, and help the men in your life build self-care into their daily routine and gain access to crucial mental health resources.

We’ve got you. 

Research has found that young men have worse rates of mental health symptom recognition, and are less likely to seek mental health resources.

That’s why DoSomething.org and Connor Franta have teamed up with Harry’s to put the “men” in “mental health.”

Each year, an estimated 4.2 million young people experience homelessness in the US. One item they request often? A pair of jeans. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Aéropostale and Jenna Ortega to bring back the largest youth-led denim drive ever: Teens for Jeans! https://bit.ly/36kSnKG

To do list for the weekend (in no particular order):

1) #HolidayMoviesAndChill 🎄📺

2) Join our campaign, The Hit We’ll Take, to educate friends about the dangers of vaping and e-cigarette use: http://bit.ly/36HBJWZ 🚭

E-cig companies make flavored products to get us hooked. While the flavors are usually safe additives, the chemicals in the flavors often change when inhaled.

You know what flavors are safer *and* only get better when inhaled? Thanksgiving food! 😋🍗🥧

With today being National STEM Day, we’d like to give a shout out to the thousands of DoSomething members who have joined the #STEMSuperheroes campaign with @3M to help empower young students to get involved in science🔬, technology💻, engineering⚙, and math📐!

No one achieves their dreams alone. What’s the best advice anyone has ever given you? 💬