Young Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc

Greatly Expanded Social Media Presence While the impact and sense of community created by our in-person meetings is unrivaled, social media is the fastest and easiest way to reach the greatest number of teens and young adults all across the country. Again last year, we dramatically increased our presence on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn. We typically post on these platforms several times per week. In addition, the 80+ members of our Youth Advisory Board regularly create and share posts on their own channels. In the past year, we created a Young Professionals Board, to help Generation S.O.S. spread its life-saving message to young adults who recently entered the workplace, as well as a College Advisory Board, to extend our social media presence on college campuses. We regularly reach 40,000+ teens and young adults monthly on social media, and expect to continue growing that number by 20% or more yearly.

The shared passion of everyone involved with Generation S.O.S. is to empower a movement of teens and young adults to help each other cope with the extraordinary challenges of mental health issues, including substance misuse and, too often, addiction, overdose, and death. While we know this subject is on the minds of literally all teens and young adults (and their parents), there is much they dont know because of the stigma, shame, and misinformation surrounding it. Worse, these critical issues are rarely discussed openly. Our ever-expanding resources include a robust website with an array of educational information a tool kit of coping skills, a curated video library of teens and young adults sharing their stories about mental health and substance challenges, a highly informative podcast series, timely articles from vetted sources, and more.