National TeenScreen Support

The National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University is funded by private foundations, individuals, and organizations committed to the early identification of mental illness in youth and the prevention of teen suicide. This funding allows for ongoing outreach to help develop and expand local TeenScreen programs in schools and communities and in primary care settings. Neither TeenScreen or the National Center have never received support or funding from pharmaceutical companies for screening.

Our supporters’ generosity is leveraged in an amazing way. For every dollar of support provided to the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups, a local program attracts more than four times that amount in local donations, grants or in-kind support.

Our supporters are often motivated by a personal experience with suicide, a suicide attempt or the affects of youth mental illness on their loved ones. Their steadfast and growing commitment inspires and, in every sense of the word, sustains us.