AI-Driven Youth Mental Health Risk Assessment and Management Practices

​Certificate of Achievement + Mental Health Advocacy Scholarship Recipient
Project Lead: Yangminyan Wu, Audrey Chi
​Analytics Team: Vivian Chen (lead), Qi (Derek) Ying, Emily Wang
​Technical Team: Yangminxing Wu (lead), Chenhao Zhang
​Marketing Team:  Brigitte Shi (lead), Charles Liu, Tristan Shi
Project Abstract: 

The youth mental health project aims to harness the power of AI techniques to conduct youth mental health risk assessment and management practices. This project includes three parts: Analytics, Technical and Marketing. The project is an organic whole, each part of it is necessary and fits well with the other parts. The 3-year project plan is shown below.

Part : 1
The Analytics part takes control of an important role: summarize current youth mental health issues; investigate risk factors of youth mental health issues; sort out the actions to youth mental health issues. Based on the proposed risk factors summarization, the team will design a youth-specific mental health survey form. This form will be handed to the Marketing team in order to collect the data from the youth communities. The survey results are then used for further analysis by the Analytics team and risk assessment modeling by the Technical team.
For this summer, the Analytics team is on track to make sure that two deliverables are available: a comprehensive research report on youth mental health and a youth-specific mental health survey form derived from the risk factors section in the research report.

1. The research report focuses on the current state of youth mental health in the United States. The Analytics team will research and analyze the reliable and authoritative sources from government websites, literature libraries, etc.
2. The youth mental health survey form plays an important role in the whole project. We expect to design a feasible and effective survey form in order to collect high-quantity data for the following mental health risk modeling and analysis.

Part : 2
The Technical part is the central and unique representation of this project. It includes two aspects: Risk Assessment and Management modeling and the web app development and deployment wrapping up the built risk assessment and management models.
We expect to present a web app to the population with mental needs or caring about mental health. It runs like this: at first, the participant completes the survey form at their ends (notebook, mobile, etc.), then the web app passes the survey information into the built Risk Assessment model to get the relevant risk analysis output. Given the risk analysis as well as the survey information as input, the web app will then utilize the Large Language Models to generate the action plan feedback. And as follows, the web app provides the participant the service of mental health risk assessment and action plan.
Because of the complexity of healthcare services, the team will consistently adjust and enhance the functionalities so that the web app can provide effective information for the participants.
For this summer, the Technical team will take a public dataset for example to go through the whole process of risk assessment modeling and web app development and deployment. This will lay a solid foundation for next summer’s project plan. Collecting our own dataset is an important objective for next summer.

Part : 3
The Marketing part takes responsibilities for three aspects: raising awareness on youth mental health; fundraising to support the whole project; collecting data from the youth communities.
In launching a web app, funding is needed for the teams for covering the costs associated with website registration, web hosting, as well as risk modeling and web app deployment. That is where the Marketing team comes into picture. Besides traditional fundraising methods, the strategy includes hosting marketing activities at events like Dragon Boat races and HOC (House of China) as available platforms. Incorporating posters/flyers into our fundraising strategy underscores our commitments to an eye-catching approach to support this project. By mixing online tactics and graphics, the members will maximize the visibility and engagement opportunities.
Through these efforts, we expect to not only raise the necessary funds but also build lasting relationships with communities and momentum that will most definitely propel our projects forward. For this summer, the Marketing team will actively participate in government-sponsored mental health activities to learn more dynamics in mental health, and host a series of mental health awareness and fundraising activities to raise awareness about youth mental health issues and conduct fundraising to support the project plan.