Do Something is a social impact organization working on a crisis text line that will connect teens at risk of suicide, rape or self-harm with crisis counselors.
Thus far, DoSomething.org has served as an awareness network working to expand its teen membership carrying out weekly national awareness campaigns on various issues and acts as a unique vehicle to get tweens and teens interested in social issues through their technology.
Currently, chief program officer Anastasia Goodstein collaborating with partner organizations on enabling the connections necessary to provide crisis counseling. The chief program officer also envisions the texting network as a means to creating a complex data set that could be analyzed in order to seek out preventative efforts for common teen depression issues.
Contact Information
Do Something website
Do Something on Facebook
Do Something on Twitter
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Teen Crisis Text Lines
- Creation of crisis text lines for teens can create disruptive innovation opportunities for mental health support services in the healthcare industry.
- Preventative Mental Healthcare
- Generating complex datasets on teen depression issues can lead to disruptive innovation opportunities for preventative mental healthcare in the healthcare industry.
- Online Counseling
- Collaborating with partner organizations to provide online counseling can create disruptive innovation opportunities for mental health support services in the healthcare industry.
Sectors Adopting This
- Healthcare
- The healthcare industry can create disruptive innovation opportunities by incorporating the creation of crisis text lines for mental health support services and preventative mental healthcare.
- Technology
- The technology industry can create disruptive innovation opportunities by developing and enhancing the platform to create complex data sets to garner insights for preventative mental healthcare services.
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofit organizations, such as Do Something, can create disruptive innovation opportunities by collaborating and partnering with other organizations for mental health support services and online counseling.
