Headspace Makes Its Service Free For Teens To Give A Head-Start On Mental Health
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Headspace, the popular meditation and relaxation app, is offering its platform to teens for free, acknowledging an urgency for accessible mental health and wellbeing resources.
Headspace for Teens will provide youths aged 13 to 18 free access to hundreds of meditation and mindfulness exercises, including programs to“increase happiness in just 10 minutes,” exercises for quality sleep, and techniques for focus. The service is designed around “normalizing, fostering, and humanizing conversations around mental health” to encourage acceptance.
“Through our research, we see that teens today are under a great deal of stress and experience high levels of anxiety due to the demands of school, their jobs, extracurriculars, social life, and a general uncertainty about their futures,” details Alice Nathoo, Head of Social Impact at Headspace. “Even though many teens have an awareness of and vocabulary for mental health issues, this doesn’t always translate to action.”
The company believes that teaching the next generation to “be kind to their minds” will make the world a healthier and more positive place to live in.
For now, the platform will be free for teens in the US, as part of a partnership with youth health nonprofits Bring Change to Mind or Peer Health Exchange.
However, Headspace intends to extend this offering globally and is looking to work with other interested youth-focused leaders and organizations around the world to make that happen. Find out more here.
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