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CEO Corner with Dr. Celine Coggins

My Mantra for 2025: Will You Join Me in It?

Dear trusted friends and supporters of The Goodness Web,

The highlight of 2024 for us here at The Goodness Web was our event with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. As he concluded his tenure earlier this month, he shared his parting prescription for a healthier nation, writing, “After years of reflecting on the stories I have heard, delving into scientific data, and convening researchers, I have come to see there are three essential elements that fuel our fulfillment and well-being: relationships, service, and purpose.” 

Relationships, service, and purpose. In my work life and my personal life, I’m going to try to use those words as guiding principles for the year ahead. 

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Events and Learning Opportunities

As The Goodness Web grows, we are expanding the ways we can learn together and connect. Please mark your calendars for the following:

Ambassador Retreat, March 31 to April 2. TGW has grown rapidly thanks to generous families across the country who have helped us expand the Web and our collective giving capacity by hosting salons and bringing our work to their networks. We are hosting our first retreat to bring together our Accelerator-level families and individuals who are committed to playing a leadership role in building our community and driving greater resources toward youth mental health. The event will be held at The Newbury in Back Bay, Boston, and will be structured to include time for deeper learning on mental health philanthropy, reflecting on our collective role in advancing the field, and celebrating our progress. It will begin with a dinner on March 31st and conclude with lunch on April 2nd. Additional details available.

• Reach out to Jessie Shaw (jessie.shaw@thegoodnessweb.org) for additional information about the 2025 Ambassador Retreat, or to find out how you can become a TGW Accelerator family or individual.

Insider Briefing with Anna Bobb from TGW Grantee, Path Forward. We are committed to ensuring you can learn directly from our grantees who are leading cutting-edge work with young people. In this month’s Insider Briefing, Celine will interview Anna Bobb, Executive Director of Path Forward, one of TGW's inaugural grantee partners. As a coalition of healthcare purchasers, clinician associations, health systems, philanthropists, and health-related nonprofits, Path Forward works to ensure equitable access to mental health and substance use care for all Americans. This Insider Briefing will go live on February 3.

• Click here to watch the recording of our last Insider Briefing with Katya Hancock, Executive Director of Young Futures.

Grantee Spotlight

TGW is proud to support these organizations, among others, with major grants.

Think:Kids’ Founder & Director Dr. Stuart Ablon joined The Mel Robbins Podcast to share “the 6 words that will change your family.” A great listen for parents with kids of all ages!

The Jed Foundation’s  CEO John McPhee shares insights and predictions about the youth mental health landscape in the coming year: Youth Mental Health Trends in 2025 | JED

Young Futures highlights the work being done by one of the organizations they support, ReThink Citizens. CEO Trisha Prabhu used her own experience being cyberbullied to develop the technology to stop online harassment before it begins. Read more about Trisha’s AI-driven approach to safer social media: How Trisha Prabhu is Building Guardrails for Teens in the Digital World | LinkedIn

Path Forward and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute are expanding the Collaborative Care model, which embeds mental health care into primary care practices, allowing patients to receive physical and mental health care in the same location: Meadows Institute partners with West Health and Northwestern Medicine to expand Collaborative Care

Eyes, Ears, Heart

These are the articles, podcasts, and videos that we’ve seen, heard, or been touched by recently:

In the News:

• Surgeon General Urges Americans to 'Rethink How We're Living Our Lives' in Closing Letter to the Country: U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy offers reflections on fulfillment, well-being, and purpose as he winds down his tenure (by Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, People Magazine)
  
• Improving teen mental health with Lisa Damour - Worklife with Adam Grant | Acast: A great listen for any parent thinking about their teen's mental health.
  
• How AI Chatbots Are Reshaping Social Services: Exploration on measuring human connection in this new frontier of AI companionship (by Julia Freeland Fisher, Stanford Social Innovation Review)
  
• The Year The Phone-Based Childhood Began To Reverse: A collection of reflections on youth mental health, social media, and digital technology (by Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch, After Babel)
  
• Surgo Youth Mental Health Tracker: Brand new data and stories on the state of youth mental health
• Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Task Force: Redesigning the Health Care Delivery System to Better Meet the Needs of Youth: At the start of a new administration, a bipartisan vision for progress on mental health (by Bipartisan Policy Center)