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Whether you’re a young person, educator or commumity member, our Ambassadors are the glue to our movement and ARE the change! Through various outreach activities, they tirelessly engage with their schools and communities to spread YTP’s mission of smashing the stigma surrounding mental health.
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YTP Nelson County featured on KET, PBS
A huge thank you and congratulations to Laura Vessels and Olivia Raley for their stigma-smashing interview on KET News last Tuesday, May 26th. In planting over 20 Hope Gardens this year, Nelson County YTP continues to make hope happen in their community. Check out the full news story – TIMESTAMP 17:20 – 20:50
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
October is full of opportunities to connect, gather, and spread hope & we want to celebrate all of them!
Explore upcoming YTP events, Hope Garden plantings, community gatherings, and other opportunities to get involved. Hosting something in your own community? We want to hear about that, too!
Share your event with us so we can help spread the word and show just how far hope is growing.
Got Hope? 2026 Is Almost Here!
Hope starts with a conversation, and this October, we’re inviting everyone to be part of it.
Follow our weekly Stories of Hope, start a conversation in your community, or help us reach our $25,000 goal to bring youth-led mental health programs and resources to more communities.
Every conversation, share, and gift helps us smash the stigma and spread hope.
We want everyone to know that hope actually does happen. We do this through outreach and advocacy work, and by coming together as a community to talk about mental illness in the same way that we talk about any physical illness.
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Press + Testimonials
“The Yellow Tulip Project is dedicated to smashing the stigma around mental illness and their youth ambassadors shared some tips for easing travel anxiety with us.”
“All of us suffer, so it’s important to recognize that we all are a piece of this giant puzzle, and to show up and care for others.”
“You see how people in our school have bonded over the subject of mental health since planting Hope Gardens, and how it’s become a more comfortable topic in our school.”
I have been to dozens of art openings and shows, and I have to tell you that “I Am More” was the best and most important one we’ve ever had. Each speaker’s words touched me and I’d be surprised if they didn’t do the same for most people there.
Several students have already confided in me the personal importance of the Exhibit’s opening night, including an undecided advisee who yesterday told me he is now leaning toward a Psychology major, inspired in part by the Exhibit and discussions with his therapist.
I was so moved by the photographs–so simply hung, yet so poignant. The personalization of each portrait spoke volumes, just people trying to live their best lives and making a difference for others by telling their simple stories. It was amazing!
“The project’s meteoritic success is due to its youth-led campaigns, and the safe spaces YTP cultivates to discuss and dismantle the stigma about mental health.”
“I am so proud of the work we are doing and am so honored to work alongside such inspiring, passionate and determined young people who are eager to make a difference in this wild, wacky world. Life is hard and painful and exhausting but life is simultaneously beautiful and vast and interesting and kind and filled with light and love.”
“Each garden is going to have bulbs, and they’ll come up in the spring to show our solidarity against mental health.”
“On the I Am More Exhibit: It was so wonderful milling around, hearing all the wonderful, positive comments. I heard a man on his phone saying,’You have to get down here, this is amazing’ People talked to me, too, about their stories and how they could easily be the one on the wall. Folks were excited, moved, and connected.”
“I think getting people together to talk about it is like Alcoholics Anonymous, where people get together and speak about their problem. They understand they’re not alone in this and understand that others are with them.”
“Mental health wasn’t something that was talked about at home or school. The Yellow Tulip Project has made me feel safe, they have made me realize that what I am going through and the way I am feeling is normal and is ok.”
“People don’t want to talk about mental illness because it’s scary, and people don’t have the language, there’s so much stigma out there, but we’re trying to normalize that.”
