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27/01/2023

HealthTech Industry Update | Innovations tackling youth mental health challenges

Kurt Neubauer

Kurt Neubauer

Youth mental health is one of the most underfunded and neglected, yet crucial global challenges.
Fourteen percent of the world’s young people live with a mental health condition, and one young
person dies by suicide every 11 minutes.


The Uplink Youth Mental Health Challenge sought to identify some of the leading innovations around
the world working to address these transformational needs, especially those led by young people
themselves.

119 submissions were received from around the world and 14 Top Innovators were
selected to join the Network.


These innovations are mostly from the areas:


➡️ Learning Applications about mental health and understand


➡️ Connect to help and positive influence and negative prevention Applications and counselling


➡️️ Games to overcome obstacles and challenges


➡️️ evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques


UpLlink Innovation Network provides selected organisations with access to connections, visibility and
support to accelerate their impact.

Have a look….

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/these-14-innovations-are-tackling-youth-mental-health-challenges/

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