HAPPY BIRTHDAY YTP!

In 2016, when founder Julia Hansen was in middle school and until her sophomore year in high school she definitely felt alone in dealing with her own depression. The deafening silence and stigma that surrounds the topic kept her from reaching out for help. It took the tragedy of losing her two best friends to suicide when she was a 15 year old high school sophomore for her to find her voice and to speak out.

In just ten years, YTP has grown from a small grassroots project in Portland, Maine, into a powerful movement with international reach. Today, we are supported by an inspiring network of Youth Ambassadors, educators, and community members across 590 partner communities, all carrying our message of hope forward. This year marked a particularly meaningful milestone with the launch of the Hope Archive — a powerful new initiative that preserves and amplifies real stories of resilience, creativity, and healing, ensuring that hope is not only shared in the moment, but uplifted for generations to come.

This year, we celebrate our 10th birthday – and 10 years of impact, 10 years of hope. 

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WHY YELLOW TULIPS?

The yellow tulip represents happiness and hope. They also remind Julia of her two best friends who she lost to suicide. The tulip was one friend’s favorite flower and yellow was the other’s favorite color. We want to help others realize that even in the darkest places, hope is always there and suicide should never be an option.

We are fiercely dedicated to helping people know that there are ways to get help, people there for them and that circumstances can and will change.

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HOPE IS ALWAYS THERE

In those dark times it is important to reach out and get the help you need. The Yellow Tulip Project is meant to help smash the stigma around mental illness. We need to talk about mental illness, not suffer alone or feel ashamed.
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