YMHLC member highlight: Rei Scott

The 2022-2023 Psychological Well being America Younger Psychological Well being Leaders Council (YMHLC) represents younger leaders from throughout the U.S. who’ve created packages and initiatives that fill gaps in conventional psychological well being providers of their communities. This 12 months’s cohort is working to handle psychological well being throughout many areas together with schooling, housing, foster care, habit restoration, and state-level coverage.

Over the subsequent a number of weeks, get to know the ten wonderful people utilizing their lived expertise and youth perspective to make huge variations within the lives of these round them.

Title: Rei Scott      
Pronouns: he/him and xe/xem      
Location: Columbus, Ohio      
College: Ohio State College      
Management and different positions: Govt Board Member of College students with Psychosis      
Social media: @sealikesword

Photograph submitted by Rei Scott

Why did you need to be a part of the YMHLC?

I wished to hitch the YMHLC to broaden my attain inside psychological well being advocacy and be taught new views.

Inform us about your work and pursuits.

I advocate for the lived-experience perspective by means of the worldwide nonprofit College students With Psychosis, in addition to on a neighborhood stage. I’m inquisitive about housing and meals insecurity because it pertains to psychological well being, artwork as a instrument for therapeutic, and constructing group for individuals who have particularly stigmatized diagnoses or signs. Exterior of psychological well being, I like to make artwork and play video video games.

What’s the greatest lesson you’ve gotten discovered from different YMHLC members?

Your advocacy is at all times sufficient. I’ve a nasty behavior of evaluating myself to individuals deemed extra “profitable” than myself, and at instances it makes me really feel hopeless, like a failure – however that is not true. Each step in direction of a greater world is significant.

What are your psychological well being advocacy targets?

My advocacy targets begin with my group. I wish to change how my college and the Columbus (Ohio) space method individuals with psychological well being situations, hopefully increasing entry to assets alongside the best way. On a bigger scale, I need to change how self-harm and suicide are addressed, and to advocate on a nationwide coverage stage.

Photograph submitted by Rei Scott

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