Go Green Dragons! 🐲💚✨Congratulations to the young leaders from Hamden High School's National Honor Society for earning their #BeThereCertificate! Learn how to support your own and others’ mental health by earning your certificate at BeThereCertificate.org 💛 Cc: Jack.org
Born This Way Foundation
Civic and Social Organizations
New York, NY 11,991 followers
Founded by Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta, Born This Way Foundation is building a kinder, braver world.
About us
Born This Way Foundation, co-founded and led by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, supports the mental health of young people and works with them to build a kinder and braver world. Through high-impact programming, youth-led conversations, and strategic, cross-sectoral partnerships, the Foundation aims to make kindness cool, validate the emotions of young people, and eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health. Learn how the Foundation encourages people to practice kindness toward themselves and their communities through its website bornthisway.foundation and its storytelling platform Channel Kindness at channelkindness.org.
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http://bornthisway.foundation
External link for Born This Way Foundation
- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2012
Locations
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Primary
New York, NY 10107, US
Employees at Born This Way Foundation
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Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes, EdD, LPC
behavioral scientist | counselor | youth mental health + substance use prevention | Born This Way Foundation | faculty at Yale Child Study Center +…
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Cynthia Bissett Germanotta
President + Co-Founder, Born This Way Foundation
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Megan Bradley
Partnerships at Born This Way Foundation | Mental Health Advocate
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Shadille Estepan
Communications Strategist | Storytelling for Social Impact
Updates
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Sometimes the soulmates in our lives are our friends. Mariana shares her story of sisterhood + love. "Let us always remember the beauty and depth found in meaningful connections." - Mariana Ogarrio #ChannelKindness #BeKind365 https://lnkd.in/eDhtchaX
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Building a kinder, braver world starts with YOU! 💖 This #Pride, Born This Way Foundation and CenterLink invite you to support LGBTQ+ youth through our Pride fund. Your donations will empower LGBTQ+ centers nationwide that provide essential services + advocate for inclusive policies. Learn more + donate: https://lnkd.in/ekUfpVZP 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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This #Pride Month, let's reflect on inclusivity, empathy, and kind action! Born This Way Foundation is partnering with CenterLink to support grassroots LGBTQ+ organizations providing vital services to youth. 💞 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eBb3Zq3E Donate: https://lnkd.in/gp94qF8A
Support Grassroots LGBTQ+ Organizations for Pride - Channel Kindness
https://www.channelkindness.org
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This #Pride, join Born This Way Foundation + CenterLink in supporting LGBTQ+ youth! Donate to our Pride Fund to empower LGBTQ+ centers nationwide, providing essential services + advocating for inclusive policies. Learn more + donate now: https://lnkd.in/ekUfpVZP 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Image Description: Image of the Progress Pride Flag
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It may be the last day of #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, but mental health matters every day. Learn from these young changemakers + discover how you can champion mental health for yourself and your community all year round! 🌎💚 https://lnkd.in/eNVejRcR #ChannelKindness #BeKind365 Cc: Oluwaferanmi Omitoyin, Mariana Ogarrio, Francesca Giannattasio, Hrushitaa Murali
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𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩? We asked and you answered. 💖 We’re grateful for your thoughtful responses and for each of you for doing your part in eliminating the stigma surrounding mental health. Visit our find help page for a list of mental health resources + evidence-based self-care tips: https://lnkd.in/drUwYUv3 #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #ChannelKindness #BeKind365
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TOMORROW, 5/29 at 8pm ET: Join us for an all new #ChannelKindness Storytellers Club writing workshop! This month’s theme is Daily Habits 📝🛀💅 If you’re looking for a safe space to write + share your story, this workshop is for you! RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eGmcu_g6 Cc: Mariah Karis
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Born This Way Foundation reposted this
behavioral scientist | counselor | youth mental health + substance use prevention | Born This Way Foundation | faculty at Yale Child Study Center + BIDS | my views
Thank you to Ann Nyberg for having me on WTNH-TV today to recognize #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth. I loved chatting about our youth-led preventative approaches at Born This Way Foundation and our special partnership with Hamden Public Schools. We completely agree that more young people would benefit from ALL schools rolling out the #BeThereCertificate to create kind and supportive communities. See clip here: https://lnkd.in/ePk7UiTi
Mental Health Awareness Month: Born This Way Foundation
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Led by Born This Way Foundation's Director of Research & Evaluation, Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes, EdD, LPC, learn how youth-driven insights shape our impactful programs and foster kind communities! 🔬💗⬇️
behavioral scientist | counselor | youth mental health + substance use prevention | Born This Way Foundation | faculty at Yale Child Study Center + BIDS | my views
August 2024 will be 10 years, but I still remember my first day working with Born This Way Foundation (BTWF). My previous job offered me an exciting opportunity: “Want to present a workshop on youth wellbeing at the Inaugural Born Brave Retreat?” I absolutely did! After this memorable experience, I stayed in contact with BTWF knowing our paths would cross again. And, in June 2023 they did. As a former educator, I was always drawn to their youth engagement + youth-driven efforts. After my work in schools, I transitioned to an academic career at Yale School of Medicine. Staying true to my commitment to working with young ppl, I launched a youth advisory board alongside my research. If we want impactful solutions for today’s challenges, we need to work WITH young ppl every step of the way. Research has always been part of our ethos at BTWF. Over the last 10 years, we conducted eleven surveys (1) that included 50K+ young ppl and their caregivers in order to build impactful programs that inspire change and equip young ppl with the skills to take action. All of these programs have one important aspect in common: they are informed by young ppl for young ppl. Moving forward, we have ambitious research priorities, drawing on previous work to pinpoint where further study is needed. As part of our Born Brave Experiences Study, we learned that kindness matters (2), highlighting the need for a reliable scale to measure kindness and bravery. Expanding on our work with Dr. Susan Swearer who developed the Kindness + Bravery Scale (KBS), we will complete its validation. By validating the KBS, we ensure it accurately measures what it is intended to measure. This is a crucial step in identifying ways to enhance kindness and bravery in a community. Next, in partnership with Hopelab, we are launching a survey with LGBTQ+ youth to better understand their needs + experiences in building kind communities online. Our Kind Communities Report 2023 (3) revealed that over half of young people who are transgender, nonbinary, and LGBTQ+ find comfort in their online communities. From our findings, we hope to facilitate informed conversations about protecting their mental health online. These are just two examples of our many research initiatives on the horizon where we seek to better understand and act in service to our youth. During our workshop at the Inaugural Born Brave Retreat in August 2014, we played Lady Gaga’s Born This Way song and danced around the room. We wanted everyone to feel energized by showing up as their authentic selves. Ten years later, my commitment to ensuring young people are safely supported to show up as their authentic selves remains intact. To do that, our research team is dedicated to asking questions, listening, pivoting, and providing science-backed support that meets the needs of ALL young ppl. By conducting research, we are performing the ultimate act of kindness—we are listening to enact change + foster the most supportive communities.