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Our Live Beyond campaign team connected with youth and families at Community Science Day in partnership with ACEs Aware and UCSF Children’s Hospital, giving out resources about ACEs and toxic stress.

We joined this 2SLGBTQIA+ event celebrating the community and Trans Pride in the Central Valley.

This event focused on school wellness transformation, hosted by the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) Administration.

Live Beyond presented and sent supplies to the Erick A. Garcia You Are Enough Foundation Walk, raising awareness of suicide prevention and support for mental health.

A gathering that engages youth as active leaders and resources in their communities, FNL is a youth-adult partnership that supports a lifestyle free of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Students, staff, and faculty came together to discuss areas of success and room for improvement, to advance health and well-being across the UCLA campus communities.

NAC brings together rural Northern California leaders to address trauma and promote resilience in the region through a collaborative approach — by building relationships and sharing, learning, examining, and generating new ideas.

This fair included exhibits about common health and wellness concerns, including access to care, mental health, addiction, preventing and managing health conditions, physical fitness, eating well, and more.

Founded and organized by Sol Collective in partnership with the Center for Sacramento History and the City of Sacramento, the yearly Souls of the City festival is Sacramento’s largest Día de los Muertos celebration.

This California Office of Youth and Community Restoration (OYCR) event brought together juvenile justice system partners to build relationships, learn from each other, and move forward toward the Positive Youth Justice Model.

We provided resources for this event for 2SLGBTQIA+ unhoused youth, with a special focus on trans unhoused youth, healing, and “found family.”

Live Beyond helped fund Kno’Qoti Native Wellness, Inc.’s (KNWI’s) Native American Heritage Month event for Stony Creek Joint Unified School District, which included a cultural awareness workshop and activities, traditional dancers, and food for the community.

High school-aged youth leaders from across California gathered to learn from each other about youth advocacy, peer mentoring, youth-led substance use prevention, and more. Two Live Beyond youth advisors, Julio and Nancy, spoke about ACEs and Stress Busters.

Featuring healing and cultural arts activities, this ACLU event brought together students, activists, and professors to share solutions to address the ongoing student mental health crisis.

This integrated care symposium is dedicated to the well-being of California’s children and youth, sharing best practices and highlighting the work counties and organizations are doing for children, youth, and families.

The region’s largest Día de Los Muertos event, this free, family-centric festival in Historic Main Street Canoga Park featured works of local artists, community tent for ofrendas, an Aztec ceremony, and more.

More than 2,000 Native educators, students, tribal leaders, and advocates joined us at the largest Native education convention in the nation. This year’s theme was “Education Sovereignty: A Declaration of Change.”

A safe place for Tribal youth, this conference serves as a platform for discussing the juvenile justice system — focusing on prevention and intervention, and addressing the specific mental health and substance use challenges they face. 

We joined the festivities — including the largest parade celebrating the Lunar New Year outside of Asia — where we gave out free healing journals and other helpful resources.

Live Beyond partnered with San Diego’s NWSL team to promote the campaign at games and youth tournaments — presenting at halftime, hosting a social media contest, giving out swag, and more.

We partnered with civil rights organization National Urban League for an event that took place at Audubon Middle School, offering support to students who are involved in the foster care system. 

Held at UC Riverside, this conference provided Black youth with strategies, opportunities, and tools to grow their leadership skills. Live Beyond hosted a journaling workshop for the event’s 470 participants!

Live Beyond partnered with California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), the largest state association in high school sports, to sponsor state wrestling and basketball championships.

For this gathering, 125 Potawatomi tribal members came from as far north as Eureka and as far south as Yosemite. Live Beyond joined too, talking about ACEs and toxic stress, and providing resources to attendees.

In partnership with the Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services, the Self-Healing Communities project hosted a screening of the one-hour ACEs documentary “Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope.” Live Beyond youth advisor Celina Aquino engaged with attendees at our table, where we had info and resources about healing from ACEs.

The California School-Based Health Alliance presented the School Health Conference April 28–April 29, 2025. Beween 700 and 800 leaders in school health were in attendance, and learned more about ACEs from Julio, one of our youth advisors, and received materials to take back to their communities and classrooms.

Live Beyond youth advisor Swey spoke to attendees at the CYBHI (Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative) Local Level Convening. We presented our upcoming healing activities for Mental Health Awareness Month in May, and gave out free resources.

Throughout Mental Health Awareness Month in May, Live Beyond held events at libraries throughout California. At South San Francisco Public Library, our event included succulent planting, an affirmation wall, a book station with book raffle, herbalism and tea-making, and a Live Beyond resource table with journals, stickers, and bookmarks!

Live Beyond held an activation at the Lincoln Public Library near Sacramento. Over 200 attendees joined us! Our event included succulent planting and terracotta pot painting, herbalism and tea-making, a healing book station, a Live Beyond resource table, a book raffle, and featured speaker Mychal the Librarian, who also took photos with attendees.

Two of our youth advisors, Julio and Swey, joined the ACEs Aware Day event at the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center on May 13 and May 20, 2025. They talked to attendees about ACEs while giving out helpful resources like our popular healing journal.

We wrapped up Mental Health Awareness Month in May at Mission Viejo Public Library, where Live Beyond hosted an activation featuring fun, stress-busting activity stations — including board games, succulent planting, affirmation-painting on pebbles, and a book raffle.