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Together, we combine innovation and advocacy to support locally and youth driven solutions that not only improve services for young people but also positively influence the social systems around them. From community-based care to national policy and global change, our collaboration ensures that youth mental health is prioritised, adequately funded, sustainably addressed and youth self advocate at every level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8942 \" src=\"https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-420x236.jpg 420w, https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-1500x844.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maatla-seetelo-JyOpUxWGD40-unsplash-1600x900.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/p>\n                                \n                            <\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n        \n            <\/section>\n    \n\n    <section class=\"long-form-content  long-form-content--gradient-background background--gradient\" id=\"\">\n        <div class=\"container long-form-content__container\">\n            <div class=\"long-form-content__wrapper\">\n                                    <h2><b>Areas of Focus for Their Donation<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">United for Global Mental Health plays a vital advocacy role within the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/being-initiative.org\/\"><b>Being Initiative<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, helping to transform the youth mental health ecosystem for the long term. We offer technical support for national and global advocacy to national youth mental health organisations. Our\u00a0 work ensures youth mental health is a global and national priority, mobilising political will, influencing funding decisions, youth advocates participate in change making, and supporting system level change so that innovations funded by Being can thrive and scale. By connecting local solutions to global platforms and elevating the voices of young people with lived experience, we help build a stronger, accessible and more responsive mental health landscape that meets the needs of young people everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n                                \n                            <\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n        \n            <\/section>\n    \n\n    <section class=\"long-form-content  long-form-content--white-background background--white\" id=\"\">\n        <div class=\"container long-form-content__container\">\n            <div class=\"long-form-content__wrapper\">\n                                    <h2><b>Are you interested in supporting United for Global Mental Health?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/contact\/\">get in touch<\/a> to discuss a partnership, or <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/donate-to-united-for-global-mental-health\/\">make a donation<\/a> today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n                                \n                            <\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n        \n            <\/section>\n    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":8811,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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