A peer mentoring campaign for teens to share their personal stories and strategies with younger teens/tweens to support healthy engagement with tech & media
It was an honor for our #GoodforMEdia youth leaders to be able to share their ideas directly with leadership from the White House Kids Online Health and Safety Task Force at this important listening session hosted by @stanfordio & @StanfordSML with @stanfordyouthmh
Many thanks to @Stanfordio for hosting @DavidsonNTIA, @DMulliganUCB and me for the WH Kids Online Health and Safety Task Force listening session. Thanks to all participants for the discussion on how we can promote online safety and well-being for youth. https://t.co/15AFihzfc7
Recognizing the ethical challenge of staying educated and informed while protecting your mental health, we advise students and adults to consider limiting their social media usage in the coming days, updating settings on devices to limit exposure to content that hurts their mental health, and seeking out credible news from verified sources that provide trigger warnings for graphic content.
Our dynamic youth leader Nathan won over the #SMWC7 crowd with a workshop on how #GoodforMEdia’s peer program supports healthy media engagement and can be easily incorporated into school classes and clubs. If you missed it, get in touch: https://t.co/BbZlvNtGgj @stanfordyouthmh
Such a key point from our Core Team member @sneharevanur:
The emphasis on higher education or Hill experience for influencing public policy “diminishes the importance of the credentials that youth have, which is the credential of lived experience.” https://t.co/AFuPCxuSEX
Such a key point from our Core Team member @sneharevanur:
The emphasis on higher education or Hill experience for influencing public policy “diminishes the importance of the credentials that youth have, which is the credential of lived experience.” https://t.co/AFuPCxuSEX
In this post from @Stanfordchild, our Program Director had the opportunity to highlight our recent event with @stanforddschool and many of the insights she's heard from our youth leaders at #goodformedia.
Unraveling the impact of social media on teens' mental health -- Vicki Harrison of @StanfordYouthMH sheds light on the risks benefits, and conversations parents should be having. 📱 #SocialMedia#WellBeing
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We started a blog! For our inaugural post, see what our Program Director thinks is missing from the Surgeon General's recent advisory on social media. @stanfordyouthmh @DesignItForUs@hope_yli@stanforddschool@stanfordsml https://t.co/uPKMDQkCQc
@RTyouthpower's support will allow us to fulfill several goals we have for expanding the reach of our efforts to keep talking to youth, parents, media and legislators about designs and policies that support the rights, privacy and wellbeing of young people. @stanfordyouthmh
Inspiring to see young people – the generation most harmed by tech’s negative effects – being empowered to advocate for the inclusive, equitable & accountable tech they want to see. @RTyouthpower@goodformedia @encodejustice
We are honored to be in the inaugural cohort of @Rtyouthpower's Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund! It's such a privilege to work alongside these visionary funders and 25 youth-led orgs to improve tech's impact on all communities & especially young people! #youthvoice
"policymakers would be wise to take an approach that consults...opinions of young people. Doing so may provide a more thorough understanding of how social media...impacts kids and teens...and provide opportunities to empower young people to better use these tools..." @jrhuddles
Currently proposed policy approaches to youth online safety are overly blunt tools that will cause more harm than good. https://t.co/QKG2nHJ9ab @CatoPodcast#CatoTechnology
Solid recommendations from @CalPartnersProj 's youth-led focus groups, including 1) Invest in racially and ethnically diverse young women and girls to become tech and media company leaders and 2) Expand media literacy programming #youthvoice
Do you have teens or young people in your life? Check out our new report, #SharedExperiences to learn more about the impact of social media and what policymakers and tech companies can do to prioritize child well-being. Download the report at https://t.co/avM0Ip72qF.
How can we re-design social media to better support #youthmentalhealth? Youth shared their ideas directly with industry reps, academic researchers, and policymakers at our event in collaboration with the @stanforddschool on Friday. @stanfordio@StanfordSML @stanfordyouthmh
A great turnout for our youth-led event last Friday focused on confronting the moral panic around social media & #youthmentalhealth. Nearly 100 participants interacted with thoughtful prompts on designing online spaces and policies that honor #youthvoices.
This special event invites young people 18 and under from all backgrounds (in school and out), Stanford students, policymakers and other communities to re-design social media in ways that will prioritize and protect youth mental health.
@goodformedia @stanfordyouthmh
If you are at #Mozfest 2023 today come hear three of our #GoodforMEdia youth leaders, Sonia, Zoe and Edward in an interactive session talk about our Youth-led Peer-Mentoring Program Promoting Healthier Engagement with Social Media!
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With so many hard news headlines to take in, our youth leaders created a #GoodforMEdia News Guide to support teens navigating newsfeeds and emotions they can evoke. Just in time for Safer Internet Day #SID2023#youthmentalhealth https://t.co/GJQVCqyXNM
“In 8th grade, after years and years of me pushing to get social media, my parents finally relented. And that year was the worst mental health year of my life.”
Given their own experiences, Emma Lembke & Aliza Kopans are lobbying to regulate social media. https://t.co/EmecZD9MIV