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Advocacy and Outreach

Join us for an inspiring and informative webinar highlighting an innovative teen film camp focused on mental health and substance use prevention. Learn how this film camp helped youth become powerful advocates by writing, directing, and producing their own public service announcements on topics that matter most to them. This session will explore the benefits of youth-led prevention initiatives, provide a behind-the-scenes look at the camp’s structure, and showcase the impactful short films created by the participants. We’ll conclude with a live Q&A panel featuring the teen filmmakers and their adult mentors. Don’t miss this opportunity to reimagine prevention through the lens of youth creativity and voice. Preregistration is required.

Frame by Frame, guiding teens to advocacy through film

4-H Teens Helping Teens is a Washington committee of teens working statewide to provide mental health promotion, suicide prevention and awareness, and promote human connection.

Teens Helping Teens Logo reads There is hope, there is help over an image of two hands touching.

Quick Links

For youth and parents: Learn more about 4-H on the WSU 4-H website. If you are interested in learning more about Teens Helping Teens contact us anytime via email.

For potential volunteers: Are you an adult interested in helping out with Teens Helping Teens, or another 4-H program? Learn more about how to volunteer on the For Volunteers web page.

We have created a free online start-up training along with a limited number of start up kits to help you start a local-to-you chapter of our successful Teens Helping Teens program. Get started here!

See below for a list of upcoming and past public awareness events and trips.

Upcoming Public Awareness Events and Trips:

  • Teens Helping Teens Monthly Business meetings: Every third Thursday of the month via Zoom or in person on Whidbey Island or in Snohomish, WA.  

Past Public Awareness Events and Trips:

  • April 27, 2024: Teens Helping Teens represented at the South Whidbey CARES Coalition drug take back event in Langley WA!!  
  • November 1, 2024: The Teens Helping Teens showed their support for suicide prevention community awareness at the Trail Youth and Forefront Suicide Prevention Benefit Concert. They also had the pleasure of watching Austin Jenckes and Paris the Prince perform live!
  • March 10 – 16, 2025: The Teens Helping Teens headed to Washington DC to visit congressional members, explore museums, and learn new skills at the Ignite by 4-H annual conference. Even more exciting, they presented to a national audience at this conference!
Teens provide mental health information to the public at a tabling event.

  • April 26, 2024: The WSU 4-H Teens Helping Teens were awarded a $2,000 grant from the National 4-H Council to expand their programming nationwide! Keep checking back for a link to instructions on how to create your very own chapter of Teens Helping Teens in your state!   
  • October 14, 2024: The Teens Helping Teens will be going to DC!!! The THT group submitted a conference proposal for the 2025 Ignite by 4-H national conference. We are thrilled to say their proposal, titled “Guide to Creating a Prevention Task Force – WSU Teens Helping Teens” was accepted!!!  
  • October 30, 2024: The WSU 4-H Teens Helping Teens were presented with the WA State Healthcare Authority Youth Leadership: Individual, Group, or Club award at the 2024 Prevention Summit! Congrats to the THT! 
Proud teens show off their leadership award

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