--- title: This Teenager Isn't Waiting for Adults to Fix the Youth Mental-Health Crisis description: Mind4Youth co-founder Sarah Shelke wants every young person to have access to mental health support. canonical: https://time.com/collection/visionaries/2026/sarah-shelke/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-06-16T13:01:07.343Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-16T13:01:07.543Z article:section: U.S. og:title: This Teenager Isn't Waiting for Adults to Fix the Youth Mental-Health Crisis og:description: Mind4Youth co-founder Sarah Shelke wants every young person to have access to mental health support og:url: https://time.com/collection/visionaries/2026/sarah-shelke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7faa9440e63d6573/6a1614b8978b1d00e7372d32/time-visionaires-2026-sarah-shelke.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y4.25 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: This Teenager Isn't Waiting for Adults to Fix the Youth Mental-Health Crisis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Teenager Isn't Waiting for Adults to Fix the Youth Mental-Health Crisis twitter:description: Mind4Youth co-founder Sarah Shelke wants every young person to have access to mental health support twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7faa9440e63d6573/6a1614b8978b1d00e7372d32/time-visionaires-2026-sarah-shelke.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y4.25 --- Jun 16, 2026 # This Teenager Isn't Waiting for Adults to Fix the Youth Mental-Health Crisis > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Juwayriah Wright](https://time.com/author/juwayriah-wright/) ## Juwayriah Wright Wright is an Editorial Producer for TIME.  Courtesy Sagar Shelke When Sarah Shelke found out a family member was struggling with [depression](https://time.com/3446984/5-signs-you-should-see-a-doctor-for-depression/), she was 13 years old. At the time, she had little understanding of the importance of mental health, but watching someone she loved navigate the illness was a wake-up call: “I really need to take action and do something about the mental-health crisis I was seeing,” she says of the experience. That wake-up call was the catalyst for [Mind4Youth](https://mind4youth.com/), the youth-led mental-health nonprofit Shelke co-founded in her home state of California in 2023, at 14 years old. What began as an [Instagram account](https://www.instagram.com/mind4youthofficial/?hl=en) with mental-health content for young people quickly evolved into an organization with infrastructure and reach. “We started to go viral on social media, and I realized there was much more potential,” says Shelke, now 17\. “A vision I had then \[was\] to make it into something more tangible with long-term impact.” Today, Mind4Youth is a global organization with 170 chapters and more than 25,000 volunteers across 71 countries; its mission is to provide culturally competent mental-health resources to young people of color and empower them through programs, educational campaigns, and strategic partnerships, including with UNICEF, the United Nations, Google, Scholastic, and others. Since its launch, the organization has raised over $517,000 in donations. Mind4Youth provides resources through four distinct programs: ArtCare, which engages volunteers in creating digital cards with positive messages for underserved youth; PageCare, which collects and distributes books to communities in need; S.E.L.F. Care, which provides self-care resources and wellness support for young people; and HeartCare, which has distributed 4,850 mental health kits to young people in under-resourced communities. Each includes self-care items and vouchers from the online therapy platform BetterHelp for three months of free sessions with a licensed, board-accredited professional. To date, Mind4Youth has funded 1,800 therapy sessions—a priority for Shelke, who says she has observed firsthand, including in her own family, the way cultural stigma around therapy can prevent people from seeking help. At the heart of Mind4Youth's model is a peer-led approach that Shelke believes is uniquely effective. "When you're talking with someone who's twice your age or older, there's immediately [a gap](https://time.com/6308096/therapy-mental-health-worse-us/) between how much comfort someone feels and sharing something so vulnerable," she says. Over 90% of Mind4Youth's volunteers are young people of color or come from low-income backgrounds, a reflection of the communities the organization is most focused on serving. Given Mind4Youth’s global reach, Shelke and her team also prioritize support for young people affected by humanitarian crises elsewhere in the world. “With wars especially, what we've noticed is mental health has become a third priority,” she says. “Yet it affects youth so much.” This fall, Shelke will attend the University of California, Berkeley, and intends to double major in economics and neuroscience while continuing to lead Mind4Youth—work she views as personal and far from finished. "A lot of the issues Mind4Youth tries to address could be fixed on a larger scale with policy," she says, adding that advocating for states to mandate mental-health education, particularly in schools, would be the next step. “\[Mental health advocacy\] has become a part of me,” Shelke says, “and Mind4Youth is a part of that." ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/visionaries/2026/sarah-shelke/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/visionaries/2026/sarah-shelke/"},"headline":"This Teenager Isn't Waiting for Adults to Fix the Youth Mental-Health Crisis","datePublished":"2026-06-16T13:01:07.343Z","dateModified":"2026-06-16T13:01:07.543Z","description":"Mind4Youth co-founder Sarah Shelke wants every young person to have access to mental health support.","url":"https://time.com/collection/visionaries/2026/sarah-shelke/","keywords":["TIME Visionaries","list","franchise","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7faa9440e63d6573/6a1614b8978b1d00e7372d32/time-visionaires-2026-sarah-shelke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y4.25&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Juwayriah Wright","jobTitle":"Wright is an Editorial Producer for TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/juwayriah-wright/"}],"creator":"Juwayriah Wright","articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7faa9440e63d6573/6a1614b8978b1d00e7372d32/time-visionaires-2026-sarah-shelke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y4.25&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-visionaries/","name":"TIME Visionaries"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/visionaries/2026/sarah-shelke/","name":"This Teenager Isn't Waiting for Adults to Fix the Youth Mental-Health Crisis"}}]}] ```