My Mind Matters Too

Meg started "My Mind Matters Too" as an awareness campaign for student mental health, in reaction to Government pledges for investment into mental healthcare for people over the age of 35 and under 18. There was nothing for young people, transitioning into adulthood, despite the fact that three-quarters of adults with a mental illness first experience symptoms before the age of 25 (1).

The campaign evolved into an organisation. My Mind Matters Too became a consultancy for King's College London, helping them draft a five year strategic well-being plan of which Meg is a co-author. This has provided a support network to protect the mental health of over 30,000 students. They have since provided an equivalent service to University of Greenwich, Cambridge and Liverpool reaching an additional 50,000 students.

The consultancy also provides mental well-being guidance for various companies and non-profit organisations. Within King's College they have run weekly wellbeing sessions, started a women's mental health support group, and held educational lectures and events. These projects have reached over 1,000 young people in total.

My Mind Matters Too is the premier youth-led organisation researching the mental health needs for young people, and will produce a white paper in 2020 collecting insight from over 25,000 participants across London to provide essential, regional and age-specific data to further their work guiding government policy.

Sources:

(1) https://www.ippr.org/files/2017-09/1504645674_not-by-degrees-170905.pdf