About Us

"I started I Hear You in hopes of changing one person's life. It ended up changing my life in the process."

I Hear You was started in 2021 at Malone University in Canton, Ohio as part of a passion project. When I was struggling with my own mental health after returning to school following the COVID 19 pandemic, our counseling center was overworked and overwhelmed. I decided to take action and create more mental health resources on our campus and in our community by getting students, staff, and faculty Mental Health First Aid certified. The mission was to get more boots on the ground to assist our counseling center in helping more people with their mental health. What I learned throughout the process was that the most important aspect of getting certified was the ability to help myself. Knowledge is a very powerful tool. The more people in a community that are educated in mental health means that more people are able to start important conversations on mental health, assist others struggling with mental health, provide them with resources, and also importantly, identify warning signs and symptoms within themselves and start getting help as soon as they notice them.
I Hear You is now being integrated into more universities and communities. The mission is to make the green tag a universally recognizable symbol for mental health. When people see a green tag, they will see the person wearing the tag as a resource who is educated in mental health and willing to listen to anyone, regardless of their background or their story. Along with the mission of Mental Health First Aid, I Hear You aims to make mental health first aid training just as common as CPR training.