The Beehive Alliance collaborated with Upper Arlington Safety Town to help children learn about identifying and expressing feelings safely. Safety Town: Safe Feelings The Beehive Alliance is honored to have a spot at Safety Town this year. We hope your child feels empowered to identify their feelings and express them safely! Below you'll find resources to help caregivers connect with their children at home and help them navigate the years ahead. The Beehive Alliance is a fully volunteer-powered nonprofit that raises awareness and funding for children's mental and behavioral health. We donate every dollar raised to Nationwide Children's Behavioral Health Pavilion and The Kids Mental Health Foundation. Explore our website to learn more about who we are, our impact, and how you can get involved! Kids' Mental Health Foundation Resources Resources for caregivers to help you with every stage of your child's life: - Tantrums - Big feelings - Starting at a new school - Making Friends - Big life events - And so many more! Go Noodle - Brain Breaks Want to get things back on track after a long day? Take a break with your child - practice mindfulness, yoga, breathing, or just get their wiggles out with a dance! Book List - Check out this list for books to read with your child to reinforce feelings and the healthy way to deal with them.

The Beehive Alliance is an organization started in 2019 that is dedicated to creating a buzz around pediatric mental and behavioral health issues. About Us Founded in 2019, The Beehive Alliance is an entirely volunteer-based 501(c)3 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. Our Impact Our Partnerships The Beehive Alliance supports Nationwide Children's Hospital Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion - America's largest center dedicated exclusively to child and adolescent behavioral and mental health on a pediatric medical campus. Featuring inpatient services, intensive outpatient services, a Psychiatric Crisis Department and research all under one roof, this integrated pediatric behavioral health approach serves as a model for other health care systems across the nation. How To Help If you would like more information about The Beehive Alliance or are interested in joining our outreach and fundraising efforts, please visit our Get Involved page. Donate Sponsor Host a Stand Attend an Event Join the Hive More Info 100% Volunteer-Led | $500,000 Raised | ONE Mission Donate Host a Stand Sponsor The Beehive Alliance is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization (EIN: 85-1235719 ) Let's Buzz about Kid's Mental Health Together we've raised over $500,000 for research and programming! Find out more! Thu, Oct 08 Party In the Patch: Squashing Stigmas Together / Details Oct 08, 2026, 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM Join The Beehive Alliance for our 6th annual Party In The Patch, at Lynd Fruit Farm. Come support our efforts to raise funds for Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Behavioral Health Pavilion and the many inpatient and outpatient mental health services they provide to youth in need. Fri, Nov 13 A Night In the Hive 2026 / Buy Tickets Nov 13, 2026, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM Details to be announced! Follow Us On Instagram Never miss a resource or event! We're Proud Of the Work We've Done Together $170,000 Raised for pediatric mental and behavioral health resources in 2025! Our 2025 #BuzzforPMH Lemonade Stand was a success! $20,000 raised! Thank you! Learn more about hosting a stand here. Find out more about the BHA team and impact summary.

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Learn about the impact that The Beehive Alliance has on pediatric mental health . 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. Want more Information? View A Snapshot Of Who Are Are Download our one-pager to see a breakdown of our membership, donation sources, and impact. More Information 2025 Impact Statement With your support, The Beehive Alliance raised $170,000 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. Nationwide Children's Clinical Training Program Ohio's children are facing a mental health crisis, with most kids receiving no care at all and families struggling to access support due to long waitlists and a shortage of specialized providers. Nationwide Children's Behavioral Health Pavilion is solving this by expanding who can deliver high-quality care. Using an innovative digital training platform developed at Harvard, the program trains Bachelor's-level providers to deliver simple, evidence-based interventions for childhood depression and anxiety directly in primary care, bringing effective treatment closer to where families already are. At the same time, the Pavilion is strengthening the long-term mental health workforce by supporting entry-level specialists and nurses as they advance their education. Because psychiatric training is rare in traditional programs, this "grow our own" pipeline ensures more skilled providers, better retention, and sustainable staffing for Ohio's future. The Beehive Alliance's support helps make this transformative, scalable model possible, expanding access and delivering faster, more convenient care to the kids who need it most. Good Noodle X Kids Mental Health Foundation Season 3 The Kids Mental Health Foundation and GoNoodle have joined forces to spark meaningful conversations about emotions and mental wellness for millions of children, parents, and educators across the country. GoNoodle's interactive movement and mindfulness videos, beloved by over 14 million monthly users, make learning about emotional regulation and "big feelings" fun, accessible, and engaging. Together, they've already created bilingual videos and companion resources that help kids build lifelong tools for understanding and managing their emotions, both in the classroom and at home. The Beehive has used these videos in our own Safety Town programming. Now, we're expanding this impact with Season 3 of the series-an ambitious new chapter that our funding will help produce, animate, and distribute. Our new co-branded content will reach even more families nationwide, blending movement, creativity, and mental health education in a way kids truly love. This program not only aligns with classroom learning goals but also strengthens family well-being and emotional resilience at home. We're excited to be part of this transformative initiative that will have national reach. What else did we do in 2025? 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 100 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 4th annual A Night In the Hive: Garden Party. We celebrated a half of a million dollars in lifetime give! Special Partnerships In 2025 we connected with more community partners than ever before! We were rewarded a grant from the Youth Advisory Council 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 $20,000! We're proud that this fundraiser involves families to breaking stigmas at the ground level. Partnership With Safety Town We partnered with Safety Town to being mental wellness tools to hundreds of children entering kindergarten. 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. 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! CONTACT 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.

Beehive Alliance presents a family-friendly fundraising event at Lynd Fruit Farm! All profits benefit pediatric mental health. Join us for our fifth annual evening of squashing stigmas: Party In the Patch Thursday, October 8th 2025 4:30 -7:30 pm Come support our efforts to raise funds for Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Behavioral Health Pavilion and Kids Mental Health Foundation and the many inpatient and outpatient mental health services they provide to youth in need. At this private event at Lynd Fruit Farm, there will be plenty to eat, fun fall activities for the entire family. Check off everything on your autumn bucket list while squashing pediatric mental health stigmas. What's Included? All the fall activities Lynd Offers! (The corn maze, zip line, apple bounce, barrel rides, and more!) Hayrides until 6 pm Live music Cotton candy from Cotton Candy Co. A deluxe s'mores bar New this year GOATS! Optional Dinner Add-on Food trucks will be available on the property this year! Dinner is available for purchase at the event and is not included in the ticket price . Grilled Cheese Gangsters Tortilla Feel welcome to pack your dinner and enjoy it at one of our picnic tables! We hope you will join us in creating a buzz around pediatric mental health! Details Thank You to Our Generous Sponsors Queen Bee Sponsors Veldman Philanthropy Fund Bee Keeper Sponsor Stigma Squasher Friend's of the Hive Interested in Sponsoring? Sponsorship Packet

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Want to become a member of the hive? Volunteer? Host a fundraiser? Submit a form to get involved and start creating a buzz around pediatric mental health Party In the Patch: Squashing Stigmas Together Thu, Oct 08 Lynd Fruit Farm .5 miles W of the Market Details A Night In the Hive 2026 Fri, Nov 13 Athletic Club Of Columbus Buy Tickets

Beehive Alliance free mental health resources. Find Help Find mental and behavioral health resources and other support close to home. The Beehive Busy Books These printable busy books are for children ages 2 - 6. These amazing resource focus on appropriate preschool skills as well as activities that support social and emotional learning. The Buzz With Dr. Huston: Video Series Dr. Parker Huston PHD is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as the clinical director of the On Our Sleeves program at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Watch our original interviews where we discuss a variety of mental health topics that affect children of all ages. The Beehive Free Resources These free resources created by the Beehive Alliance are here to support the mental health work you're doing with the children in your own lives. Nationwide Children's: On Our Sleeves On Our Sleeves has created a network of support around the millions of families around the country living with mental illness by addressing the stigma associated with this diagnosis and providing the tools necessary to improve behavioral health outcomes.

Giving Tuesday campaign the beehive alliance. Giving Tuesday Join us in a day of supporting children's mental health! Looking for ways to increase your impact this year? Read below! 1 Complete The Family FUNdraiser Complete tasks that boost your family's mental health, while you raise money to support the mental health of children everywhere. DOWNLOAD CHALLENGE HERE 2 Check for Corporate Matches Many businesses match donations made on Giving Tuesday. Check early to make sure we're on their list! Need help getting us approved? Email finance@thebeehivealliance.com Make A Difference Today! $1 brings On Our Sleeves content to a classroom in America $25 brings On Our Sleeves content to an entire school $50 funds an On Our Sleeves activity kit for a school or community group $100 delivers a hands-on mental wellness activity kit for an entire classroom $500 creates one new piece of educational content about mental health and wellness $1,000 funds a national survey to gather data on children’s mental health topics $3,000 creates an educational On Our Sleeves video to reach thousands of families across the United States $5,000 develops a new mental wellness activity for organizations targeted to youth-serving organizations. First Name Last Name Email Address I’m donating in the name of: Choose an option Organization\ Honoree name: DONATE Prefer Venmo? Click Here The Beehive Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN: 85-1235719). Contributions to The Beehive Alliance are tax-deductible to the extent allowed under IRS guidelines. Mailing Address: The Beehive Alliance 1733 W Lane Avenue Upper Arlington, Ohio 43221