Letters to Strangers Youth Mental Health Education Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2026

Applications are open for the Letters to Strangers Youth Mental Health Education Fellowship 2026. The Letters to Strangers Youth Mental Health Education Fellowship equips US-based mostly lecturers, counselors, and faculty directors with proof-based mostly instruments to acknowledge, reply to, and cut back psychological well being stigma amongst their college students – for gratis to you or your college.

This is a 12 months-lengthy dedication. They are deciding on 10 Fellows for this inaugural cohort, with precedence given to educators at Title I, rural, and underneath-resourced faculties. You do NOT want to have an present L2S Chapter at your college to apply.

Benefits

• $1,000 Implementation Stipend: A stipend to assist you in bringing the curriculum to life.
• Complete Curriculum Package: One Teachers’ Handbook (with key vocabulary, actions, and evaluation concepts already included).
• 15 Professional Development Hours: Earn 15 PD hours by structured coaching and implementation, with a certificates supplied.
• Monthly Expert Sessions: Monthly 1-hour Zoom periods with psychological well being professionals, youth advocates, and fellow Fellows, plus optionally available further webinars, designed round your schedule.
• Digital Emotional Literacy Module: Bonus curriculum on serving to college students navigate AI chatbots akin to ChatGPT and Replika safely – they comprehend it’s probably the most pressing and underserved subjects in faculties proper now.
• Access to the L2S Network: Join a worldwide neighborhood of youth leaders, college professionals, and psychological well being advocates. Fellows are foundational companions in how they scale this work.

Eligibility

• Based within the United States;
• Currently working in a faculty or youth-serving setting with highschool-age college students (approx. grades 9–12);
• Open to any college-based mostly position: instructor, counselor, administrator, dean, social employee, college psychologist, or related;
• Committed to finishing the 12 months-lengthy fellowship and integrating the curriculum into your college;
• Passionate about scholar wellbeing. Prior psychological well being coaching just isn’t required.

Application

Applications shut June 30, 2026 and are assessed on a rolling foundation. The will probably be in contact by mid-July.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Letters to Strangers Youth Mental Health Education Fellowship.