Finding “My People”

In our report Navigating Injustice, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) young people shared stories about the racial prejudice and discrimination they’ve experienced due to their ethnic-racial identities (ERI) and how this affected their mental health. Yet, despite these hardships, BIPOC young people said their ERI is a great source

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A Sense of Home Everywhere

In our report Navigating Injustice, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) young people shared stories about the racial prejudice and discrimination they’ve experienced due to their ethnic-racial identities (ERI) and how this affected their mental health. Yet, despite these hardships, BIPOC young people said their ERI is a great source

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With record levels of loneliness, young men need mentors, research shows

Springtide Research Institute was recently featured by Baptist News Global. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety. Young men desperately need mentors and safe, understanding communities to help overcome the loneliness they are experiencing

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Lonely? Religion and spirituality can help.

In Belonging: Reconnecting America’s Loneliest Generation, our 2020 report that contains responses and reflections from more than 1,000 young people ages 13–25, the findings from prior studies were confirmed: Young people are indeed lonely, perhaps at rates unforeseen by previous generations.  For this report, loneliness was defined as “a persistent

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