While extensive research has evaluated the clinical performance of mental health services and treatment models for adolescents, a critical gap remains in assessing youth attitudes towards government, healthcare, and educational institutions and how growing distrust may impact proclivity to both perceive their needs and engage with care delivered by these institutions.

 

Existing studies are also limited in the representative diversity of perspectives they reach and extent to which they capture young people’s authentic attitudes toward such forms of care. YPP designs and drives novel research methodologies, grounded in the understanding we carry as peers, to fill this ongoing research gap and better inform existing efforts to design youth-centered, experience-driven mental health interventions. 

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Read about some of our most notable research outcomes: