The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute recently convened a summit in New York on the interplay between the digital world and youth mental health.
Summit gives youth a chance to lead on mental health
25 September 2025
The Digital Dilemma: Bridging Science and Storytelling for Youth Mental Health, brought together mental health experts, youth mental health supporters from a range of organizations, and young people from around the world at the Child Mind Institute Headquarters in New York.
Following opening remarks from SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos and Child Mind Institute Founding President and Medical Director Harold Koplewicz, the first session featured a panel of youth representatives from Brazil, Greece, and South Africa on “Grassroots Youth Leadership in Mental Health” moderated by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI) Director of Youth Engagement George Moschos.
The SNF Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute in many ways grew out of the earlier CAMHI. SNF helped launch CAMHI, a collaborative effort to support and connect health professionals across Greece with an aim of enhancing prevention and treatment for young people, in 2021 as part of its ongoing billion-dollar-plus Global Health Initiative (GHI). Building on the approach it piloted in Greece, the SNF Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health was established the next year, also as part of the GHI, to support system-wide change informed by local contexts and the perspectives of young people and the practitioners already serving them.
Other session looked at specific youth mental health practices in Peru, Brazil, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the UN’s actions for youth mental health.
Read Andreas's full remarks