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MENTAL HEALTH & WELL BEING

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Ascend Beyond’s Mental Health & Well-Being Program creates culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and healing-centered environments where AAPI youth can develop emotional resilience.

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PROJECT

REACH US

RESILIENCE

Ascend Beyond’s Mental Health & Well-Being Program creates culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and healing-centered environments where AAPI youth can develop emotional resilience. We intentionally dismantle stigma by creating spaces where young people feel seen, heard, and understood. Through peer support circles, identity and belonging workshops, culturally grounded mindfulness practices, and youth-led wellness sessions, we help youth reconnect to their inner strength.

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Our Approach

Emphasizes culture as medicine, community as support, and storytelling as healing. Youth learn emotional literacy, coping strategies, and leadership skills rooted in compassion, grounding, and self-awareness. The program ensures that every young person — regardless of background or language access — knows: you are not alone, and your feelings deserve space.

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CORE COMPONENTS

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Healing-Centered Circles & Peer Support

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Cultural Identity & Belonging Workshops

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Stress & Anxiety Coping Skills Training


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Mindfulness, Movement, and Somatic Wellness

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Mental Health First Aid 101 for Youth

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Creative Expressions for Healing (art, journaling, storytelling)

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OUTCOME

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AAPI youth who are emotionally equipped to lead with clarity, confidence, and wholeness.

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WHO D0 WE SERVE?

→  AAPI youth ages 12–21 across NYC.


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THE NEED

→  AAPI youth face mental health stigma, limited culturally competent support, and rising anxiety, isolation, and identity-related stress.

JOIN US NOW

If AAPI youth are provided with culturally grounded, healing-centered mental health spaces and are equipped with tools for emotional literacy, identity affirmation, and coping,
then they will build the confidence, self-awareness, and psychological resilience needed to lead with clarity —
because healing is foundational to leadership, and youth cannot lead beyond the limits of their wellbeing.

Theory of Change

JOIN US

OUR

IMPACT

Tools to navigate

stress

Confidence to lead and self-advocate

Stronger emotional literacy

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Increased sense of belonging

Join Us

SHOW UP FOR AAPI YOUTH

Your support helps us provide accessible, stigma-free mental health support for AAPI youth who often have nowhere else to turn.
A gift of any size helps us expand healing circles, offer workshops, and ensure every young person feels seen and supported.



3% Cover the Fee

Your donation builds a generation of emotionally resilient youth who can lead with clarity and confidence.


“Move with purpose. Lead with heart.”

- Ascend Beyond

Join us as we build a future where AAPI youth rise, thrive, and ascend beyond limits.


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“Leadership is not defined by titles or accolades, but by identity, purpose, and service.
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— ASCEND BEYOND

EVENTS

A conference poster for the 2025 AAPI Youth Mental Health Conference titled "Roots & Resilience: The Power of Data & Stories to Advance AAPI Youth Mental Health." The event is at McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC on September 27, 2025. Features keynote speakers, including Kelly Crosbie and Howard Liu, and a documentary premiere for "Silent War." Includes a QR code for registration.
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