We are the Yellow Tulip Project — smashing the stigma around mental illness — one tulip at a time.
We are tired
of the stigma.
Aren't You?
Take
Action
Our Ambassadors
Become an Ambassador!
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.
Featured Press
Shalom House plants hope garden to inspire positivity & community in Portland
PORTLAND, Maine — Shalom House, a community-based mental health provider, now has a new hope garden. In partnership with the national Yellow Tulip Project, 250 tulip bulbs were planted Thursday in the lawn of Shalom House’s residential property on Clark Street. Emily Mitchell, the development and communications manager, explained, “This is a highly supportive housing property for
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Celebrate 10 years of YTP with our 4th annual Hope for the Holidays party. We’re thrilled to gather again in Portland for a festive evening benefiting The Yellow Tulip Project. Join us as we celebrate how far we’ve come, honor the people who have made it possible, and raise funds to keep spreading hope, amplifying youth voices, and smashing mental health stigma. Let’s toast to our community and all we can make possible together in the next 10 years!
Thank You to our Q3 Donors + Sponsors
We’re grateful to everyone who gave to The Yellow Tulip Project this past quarter. Your generosity helps young people share their stories, find connection, and feel less alone.
Thank you for helping us break down mental health 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.
To join our momentum, click below!
Join Us
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.”
