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Connecting People to Services
Across the apps, Facebook is rolling out a number of features to connect people to expert support and resources including:
- The World Health Organization Digital Stress Management Guide, which provides easy-to-follow techniques designed to reduce stress and promote mental well-being, now available on the WHO Health Alert chatbot on WhatsApp
- A sticker pack available on Messenger designed with the WHO, to facilitate conversations around mental health that can lead to support
- Suicide and self-harm prevention through our expanded partnership with Crisis Text Line to provide Crisis Support Over Messenger
- New mental well-being guides on Instagram, including one created in collaboration with The Jed Foundation to help teens understand how their time online may impact their emotional well-being and one from the Korea Suicide Prevention Center that provides guidance on how men can talk about mental health without shame.
New Facebook Watch show based on Mental Health
Facebook has greenlit Peace of Mind with Taraji (working title), a new talk show for Facebook Watch with Golden Globe Award-Winning Actress Taraji P. Henson and co-hosted with her longtime best friend Tracie Jade Jenkins, who is the Executive Director of Henson’s Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation. The original series will shine a light on the mental health challenges facing people today – particularly those in the Black community.
Set to premiere later this year, each episode will focus on a different mental health topic, and multiple content clips will be released per week.
Partnering with Experts to Advance Research
Facebook and The Aspen Institute have collaborated to advance the collective understanding of loneliness, social connection, technology, and how they all intersect. This effort has brought together more than 60 cross-sector experts — from academia, health, technology, nonprofit, and government — to share research and identify gaps to inform future research and potential solutions.
