YoCo 2024-2025

School: Warren Central

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: I want to use my voice to create awareness for others to step out and do the same so there isn't a stigma around teen mental health and reaching out for help when needed.

Fun Fact: I love to observe art, whether it be music, fashion, sculptures, or photography

School: Eman Schools

City: Carmel, IN

Reason For Joining YoCo: to converse with like minded youth on issues surrounding mental health, addiction, and more. It's important to me to learn more about how others combat mental health in their respective communities.

Fun Fact:  I love going on walks and spending time with friends and family.

School: Eman Schools

City: Fishers, IN

Reason for Joining YoCo: I am passionate about raising awareness for mental health. Mental health is a crucial part of everyone's well-being, and YoCo provides an opportunity to educate others, reduce stigma, and promote understanding.

Fun Fact: I've hiked some of the most beautiful trails in Indiana

School: Lawrence North

City: Lawrence, IN

Reason For Joining YoCo: to gain more experience about mental health but also share my experiences about how I struggled with my mental health and eventually became better

Fun Fact: I love watching anime & I love taking care of people

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School: Crispus Attucks

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: I wanted to expand and strengthen my connection to my community.

Fun Fact:  Fun fact about myself is that I am the youngest of 5 children.

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School: Evansville Day School

City: Newburgh, IN

Reason For Joining YoCo: I want to contribute to the destigmatization of the mental health as a whole in our future, and I know that starts with our youth.

Fun Fact:  I love to play chess, and I regularly play in tournaments!

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School: Lawrence Central

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: I've always had an interest in mental health. Having faced my own challenging mental health struggles, I feel a strong desire to support others, ensuring they know they are not alone in their journey.

Fun Fact:  I enjoy being around others, sharing laughter and helping others.

School: North Central

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: I am very passionate about advocating for youth and for mental health

Fun Fact: I am president of Recycling Club at my school and team captain of my Rugby Team

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School: Fishers

City: Fishers, IN

Reason for Joining YoCo: I felt like there was an under representation with kids mental health. I also want to purse psychology an a career path.

Fun Fact: I like to keep myself busy

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School: Herron Classical

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: I wanted to be part of representing teenagers and helping bring understanding to the thoughts and ideas that we have. I also am interested in becoming a social worker, so I feel like this program will give me a sense of what the job may look like.

Fun Fact: I am involved in varsity basketball, Jack n Jill of America, Herron Hype, and the Black Cultural Union at my school.

School: Perry Meridian 

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: To discuss complicated situations and teen mental health with like-minded individuals.

Fun Fact: I collect beanie babies​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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School: Lawrence North

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: I am extremely passionate about my generation and future generations mental health. A lot of teens struggle with fitting in and I would love to find ways to help find solutions by bringing awareness to people who have the power to make a change.

Fun Fact: My favorite color is blue and my birthstone is a Sapphire. I decided to name my dog Sapphire she's the cutest Yorkie!

School: Purdue Polytechnic Broad Ripple

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: To learn more about mental health and in order to meet and collaborate with people in my age group about this topic!

Fun Fact:  My favorite color is purple and I really love music

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School: Lawrence Central

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: I joined YoCo so that I could learn more insight about my mental health and the teens around me mental health.

Fun Fact:  I play the tuba

School: Victory College Prep

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: I wanted to learn more about mental health and it impacted youth

Fun Fact: I enjoy reading fantasy novels

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School: Pike

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: to make an change in the mental health of teens

Fun Fact:  I'm joining the national guard next year

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School: Ben Davis

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: I joined YoCo to help kids and teens in need. I want to give them the help that I didn't get, everyone deserves to have resources and people that can help them get out of certain situations.

Fun Fact: I like to read and bake. I'm also one of six kids.

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School: Eman Schools

City: Fishers, IN

Reason For Joining YoCo: being apart of YoCo last year was an amazing experience and was able to learn a lot about teen mental health.

Fun Fact: I enjoy playing sports with my friends​​​​​​​​​

School: Harshman Middle School

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: To be part of the voice of my generation while discussing and learning more about the issues we face and how we can overcome

Fun Fact: I am artistic I enjoy drawing, crocheting, painting and being creative. I also enjoy anime

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School: Lawrence North

City: Fishers, IN

Reason For Joining YoCo: All my life I've had a love for psychology but YoCo stood out to me because it uses teens to research adolescent mental health and substance abuse. I appreciate that the founder wanted to get first hand experience for their research because being an adolescent in our current digital world is different from even 10 years ago.

Fun Fact:  I love to sing and I've been doing it since I was a baby.

School: Lawrence Central

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: To help improve our youth mental health.

Fun Fact: I like to read and I am half Jamaican

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School: Ben Davis

City: Indianapolis

Reason for Joining YoCo: to help people learn more about and help teenagers and children who struggle with their mental health and learn the most effective way to help them.

Fun Fact: I am on the Varsity swim team

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School: Legacy Learning Center

City: Lawrence, IN

Reason For Joining YoCo: to serve my community and to act as a means of representation for my peers.

Fun Fact:  I had 2 pet goats

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School: Lawrence North

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: I am interested to learn in broad range about mental health.

Fun Fact:  I can sleep for a long time

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School: Lawrence Central

City: Indianapolis

Reason For Joining YoCo: To help our future generations establish an emotional connection within themselves and others around them.

Fun Fact:  I have 13 siblings