Founded in 2019, The Beehive Alliance is an entirely volunteer-based organization dedicated to creating a buzz around pediatric mental and behavioral health issues. We are committed to funding mental health programs, resources, and research that enhance the mental well-being of children in our country.
2024
Impact Statement
With your support, The Beehive Alliance raised $160,000 for Children's mental health.
This year we split our donation between The Nationwide Children's Behavioral Health Pavilion and the Kids Mental Health Foundation. With your help, we funded the following programs.
Safe Mind App
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents
aged 10-24 in the United States. Preliminary research indicates that many of these youth engage online about suicide and often use the internet and online communities to explore methods. However, existing parental control apps do not specifically address suicide prevention.
The Safe Mind app is a keyboard tool that allows parents and caregivers to install it on their child's phone to monitor keystrokes for suicide-related terms. If any such keystrokes are detected, the content will be blocked, and parents will be notified along with other selected contacts, such as a therapist or school counselor. Additionally, the app will connect them to support resources. The team aims to expand this technology into a desktop plugin. Support from the Beehive Alliance funds the development of the Safe Mind app’s proof of concept, as well as its testing and refinement.
The Kids Mental Health Foundation + YMI Mental Health Program for Classrooms
Studies show that greater mindfulness correlates significantly with better academic achievement such as grade point average, standardized tests, improved academic performance, better attendance, and fewer suspensions.
In partnership with Young Minds Inspired (YMI) and support from The Christina and Ryan Day Fund for Pediatric and Adolescent Mental Wellness, The Kids Mental Health Foundation has created an educational program centered on Breaking Stigmas and Emotional Empowerment for children ages 6-14, in both English and Spanish. This program and promotes mental health and well-being, while helping kids develop The Kids Mental Health Foundation coping strategies with a focus on emotions, healthy habits, gratitude, kindness, happiness, school and social skills. Every YMI program is developed by curriculum experts and reviewed by members the Educator Advisory Board, a blue-ribbon panel of active teachers who ensure that the programs align with academic standards and meet practical classroom needs. Funding from the Beehive Alliance allows The Kids Mental Health Foundation/YMI to create, produce and deliver physical materials to 50,000 classrooms and digital materials to 40,000 teachers.
What else did we do in 2024?
The Beehive was busy creating a buzz around pediatric and adolescent behavioral and mental health this year!
Back To School Backpacks
Having what you need for school improves a child's mental health. With help from Sponsor Abercrombie and Fitch Co, we created over 250 backpacks filled with school suplies, hygiene kits, and mental health tools. Backpacks were distributed by Student Success Stores.
A Night In the Hive
We held our Third annual A Night In the Hive: Garden Party. Our generous sponsors, donors, and guests proved once again that children's mental health is important to us!
Special Partnerships
In 2024 we connected with more community partners than ever before! With their help, we spread our message further and reached additional families who needed our help.
Social Media Outreach
Our social media team amplified the voices of experts in the field and provided hundreds of free mental health resources to followers nationwide. Join us @BeehiveAlliance
#BuzzforPMH
Our viral lemonade stand fundraiser raised $30,000! We're proud that this fundraiser involves families to breaking stigmas at the ground level.
Back to School Mental Health Fair
We hosted our fourth FREE back-to-school mental health fair with Seeds of Caring. We provided school-aged children with mental health tools to carry with them through the school year.
2023
Impact Statement
With your support, The Beehive Alliance raised $150,000 for Children's mental health.
This year we split out donation between The Nationwide Children's Behavioral Health Pavilion and their national On Our Sleeves program.
$100,000 - The Behavioral Health Mobile Response Unit:
The Psychiatric Crisis Department (PCD) has been a crucial place for families to go when their children have had a mental health crisis. From the time the PCD opened in 2020 to the first part of 2022, the PCD volume increased by 44%. Families are already calling when they are in crisis and in some cases, an in-person response can provide the help needed to stabilize the crisis and help a family avoid presenting to the PCD, reserving resources for the patients who are most likely to need hospitalization. One initiative Nationwide Children’s has embarked on is establishing the Mobile Response and Stabilization Service (MRSS). This program includes screening and triage via a crisis line; then provides a mobile response and de-escalation services including interventions; and finally, establishes an individualized stabilization plan. The overall goals for MRSS is to build skills, achieve family goals, counsel on crisis prevention techniques and environmental safety, and avoid psychiatric admission. Our donation allows for additional staff trained in de-escalation techniques as well as additional transportation resources.
$50,000 - On Our Sleeves Mental Wellness Teacher Kits Subscription Boxes:
This program is currently in the pilot phase and is being utilized by 500 classrooms across the U.S. The Mental Wellness Teacher Kits are provided to classrooms every month with various topics to help educate teachers on children’s mental health and teach everyday mental health and wellness skills.
Each kit contains a guide for teachers on each month’s mental wellness topic and its relation to the school year; a student activity, including supplements to ensure activity success; Parent Tips to send to parents to continue mental wellness strategies beyond the classroom, and a teacher appreciation gift. Each kit also includes a QR code for teachers to scan and provide feedback on that month’s kit, to share what’s working and what could be improved, and to help guide future versions of the kits. The target population for these kits is first through fifth-grade teachers, their students, and the students’ parents or caregivers.
Their goal is to reach children in a space that’s familiar and comfortable to them, that encourages them to be open and share their feelings, and provides them the tools they need to understand their feelings, and what they can do to improve their mental health and cope with challenges they may experience. The gift from the Beehive Alliance will send a year-long subscription to 100 classrooms.
What else did we do in 2023?
The Beehive was busy creating a buzz around pediatric and adolescent behavioral and mental health this year!
Back To School Backpacks
Having what you need for school improves a child's mental health. With help from Sponsor Abercrombie and Fitch Co, we created over 200 backpacks filled with school suplies, hygiene kits, and mental health tools. Backpacks were distributed by Student Success Stores.
A Night In the Hive
We held our second annual A Night In the Hive: Garden Party. Our generous sponsors, donors, and guests proved once again that children's mental health is important to us!
Special Partnerships
In 2023 we connected with more community partners than ever before! With their help, we spread our message further and reached additional families who needed our help.
Social Media Outreach
Our social media team amplified the voices of experts in the field and provided hundreds of free mental health resources to followers nationwide. Join us @BeehiveAlliance
#BuzzforPMH
Our viral lemonade stand fundraiser raised $15,000! We're proud that this fundraiser involves families to breaking stigmas at the ground level.
Back to School Mental Health Fair
We hosted our third FREE back-to-school mental health fair with Seeds of Caring. We provided school-aged children with mental health tools to carry with them through the school year.
2022
Impact Statement
The Beehive Alliance is proud to announce a 2022 donation of $75,000!
Our donation will support a Primary Care Clinician pilot program created by the experts at the Nationwide Children's Behavioral Health Pavilion and On Our Sleeves. The goal of this program is to develop and provide resources that primary care clinicians can use to start important conversations and give valuable tools to families on how to support the mental health of their children. The program will create and give resources that facilitate the conversation and goal-setting between the clinician and the families. Additionally, they will conduct impact surveys to understand if the materials are being utilized and beneficial and receive feedback from clinicians and families on what resources could be helpful in the future.
What else did we do in 2022?
The Beehive was busy creating a buzz around pediatric and adolescent behavioral and mental health this year!
Kindness Kits
Hundreds of kindness kits were created for patients waiting for treatment at the Behavioral Health Pavilion. Kits include encouraging notes, fidget toys, and small activities to pass the time.
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A Night In the Hive
We raised $40,000 at our first adult-only fundraiser, A Night In the Hive. The support of the community humbled us!
School Partnerships
We partnered with the experts at Nationwide Childrens and local schools to bring mental health information and resources to families.
Social Media Outreach
Our social media team amplified the voices of experts in the field and provided hundreds of free mental health resources to followers nationwide. Join us @BeehiveAlliance
#BuzzforPMH
Our viral lemonade stand fundraiser raised $15,000 while involving families in breaking stigmas at the ground level.
Back to School Mental Health Fair
We hosted our second FREE back-to-school mental health fair with Seeds of Caring. We provided school aged children with mental health tools to carry with them through the school year.
Important Partnerships
We partnered with local nonprofits and businesses to increase our impact. Thank you to Seeds of Caring, Red Oak Foundation, Katy Oberle, Balanced Child Method, On Our Sleeves, and the many large and small businesses that supported our mission in 2022.
Party In the Patch
Our Party in the Patch event tripled in size in 2022! This meant more families experienced our low-pressure way to connect about their mental health in a night of fall fun.
Grants Recieved
We were honored to receive generous grants from Gabriel's Light, The Ford Foundation, and the MBIA Foundation.
2021
A Year in Review
The Beehive Alliance is proud to announce that because of your generosity, we were able to donate $20,000 to programs at Nationwide Children's Behavioral Health Pavilion and an additional $5,000 to On Our Sleeves (see below for more information).
$10,000
Home Based Team
This parent training-focused team specializes in assisting overwhelmed parents to improve their connection with their young children. The funds we donated will be used to buy toys, crafts, and interactive games for families to use in their own homes to improve connection and satisfaction in their relationships.
$10,000
Integrative Family and Systems Treatment
This program provides counseling to family members twice a week to reshape communication patterns. Funds will be used to purchase items and create experiences that create healthy family interactions such as food for shared meals or entry fees for family events.
$5,000
Our Our Sleeves
With prevention as the focus, funds will be used to create a new mental wellness activity designed by the OOS behavioral health experts. The activity will boost mental health in children. The activity will be used with youth-serving organizations.
Kindness Kits
We donated 116 kindness kits and 100 additional fidgits to the patients at the Behavioral Health Pavilion.
Mental Health Fair
We partnered with Seeds of Caring to host a free Be Kind To Yourself (and Others) mental health fair.
#BuzzForPMH
$11,000 was raised at 16 lemonade stands managed by dedicated child volunteers and their families and 100s of generous donors from 16 states.
Gabriel's Light Grant
We received a generous grant from Gabriel's Light to be used to provide mental health resources and squash stigmas.
Party in the Patch
Our first in-person fundraiser was an event that brought families together at Lynd's Fruit Farm. We #SquashedStigmas and raised funds thanks to generous donors, sponsors, and attendees.
@BeehiveAlliance
We provided almost 100 social media posts and resources that provided tips for caregivers to help children with their mental health. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook!
2020
How did your generosity make a difference?
Because of your support, the Beehive Alliance was able to present a $10,000 Donation To the Behavioral Health Pavillion at Nation Wide Children's Hospital.
Our gift will go towards creating an On Our Sleeves educational video to reach children across the United States, and developing a new wellness activity targeting youth organizations.
We are honored to present this gift in a year where supporting the mental health of children is more important than ever.