With rising mental health challenges, a great number of emerging adults struggle to reach their full potential.
In fact, no other age group reports as many challenges as 18-29 year-olds while also having a hard time accessing affordable and appropriate support. This is what we want to change.
As cultivators of social entrepreneurship, we don’t subscribe to a single cure-all solution to a systemic and multifaceted problem. Instead, we are reaching out to entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, practitioners and emerging adults in a united cross-sector effort to revolutionize mental health support in the Nordics.
From healing to thriving, from personal to community, we empower scalable solutions and advocacy initiatives that each hold a unique promise to secure emerging adults’ human right to be well.
Together, we can create a Nordic-wide revolution in mental well-being for emerging adults.
The journey has started.
Will you join us?
THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION.
Our manifest
What we do
Next in Mind is founded by Reach for Change, The Inner Foundation, and the Tim Bergling Foundation as a response to the rising mental health crisis of emerging adults in the Nordics.
We empower social entrepreneurs who work on the innovative solutions we need to make mental health resources more accessible and effective for emerging adults. For social entrepreneurs to thrive and expand their impact, they require a nurturing ecosystem and support from cross-sector partners.
With partners in both public and private sectors, in academia and mental health practices, as well as emerging adults, we represent and include all aspects of the issue, in the Nordic region.
Why we do it
In the Nordics, we are currently witnessing some of the highest rates of mental suffering among emerging adults compared to other European countries. Compared to the rest of the population in the Nordics, twice as many in this age group are dealing with mental health challenges.
Too many struggle to access affordable, appropriate help, making it one of the greatest challenges facing our Nordic societies today. If we continue down this path, we risk leaving an entire generation behind.
Mental health is a human right, and more needs to be done to secure it. We need to increase our support systems for the mental wellbeing of all emerging adults.
How we do it
Our approach is two-fold:
Firstly, we offer an incubator program that focuses on developing and scaling social entrepreneurs’ businesses. Among others, these activities include sharpening their operating model, readiness to scale, impact measurement, monitoring and evaluation and funding strategies.
Secondly, we gather, empower and facilitate co-created ecosystem and advocacy activities to impact the systems of support for mental wellbeing solutions in the Nordics.
Our end beneficiaries
In today’s society, the transition to adulthood takes longer than it has in the past. This has created a new life phase: emerging adulthood, a time in our life where many of us are struggling.
EMERGING ADULTS
As a part of this initiative we have created a report to put some important facts and insights on the table regarding the current situation for emerging adults, 18-29 years old.
The report looks deeper into several aspects of the life of an emerging adult; what happens during this period of life, how are emerging adults feeling, what challenges are they facing today and what are their needs.
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