LETS Educational Foundation has been met by enthusiasm and support from educators, health care professionals, researchers, and community leaders because the LETS youth-led model is an elegant solution that works.  Please consider the words of our supporters below.

"I believe that LETS has conceived a brilliant strategy: to end stigma by demonstratingnot just sayingthat there is a place for everyone. I have seen the glow of young people who are a part of LETS with a variety of abilities and disabilities know that they can and do contribute to bettering of their communities."
-Dr. Marvin Southard; DSW Director, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health

"LETS is a simple, yet revolutionary, idea. It's a way of fighting the stigma against mental illness, with the energy, ideas, and plans all made by kids! LETS Clubs, in middle or high schools, make use of the natural tendencies of kids to be empathic, to talk about real problems rather than ignore them, and to take action against stigma and discrimination. The LETS organization has guides for how groups might run, raise money, and organize themselves, but the basic idea is that kids make LETS happen. Finally, LETS wants to evaluate the clubs and see what can change--in kids, schools, even whole communities--and how the change comes about."
-Dr. Stephen Hinshaw; Professor, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley; Editor, Psychological Bulletin

"Let's Erase the Stigma, or LETS, is an innovative program that assists high school and college students to organize clubs that are focused on education and awareness of stigma directed toward individuals with mental illness. They are also committed to designing and implementing culturally and community sensitive stigma prevention programs at their home institutions and in their own neighborhoods."
-Dr. Bennett Leventhal; Deputy Director, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research; Professor, Deputy Director of Research, and Vice Chair, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center and NYU Child Study Center

"Fifty percent of mental illnesses emerge by the age of 14, but it usually takes years to get help. LETS Clubs are changing that. Didi Hirsch is proud to have supported LETS since its beginning."
-Kita S. Curry, Ph. D., President/CEO, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services

"LETS is an innovative program targeted at changing societal attitudes about mental illness at the root level, with our youth. LETS is an amazing educational model that is spreading from coast to coast. I support LETS and its forward-thinking mechanisms for erasing the stigma."
-Gabrielle Shapiro, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego

"LETS is an innovative school-based program that empowers middle school, high school, and college students to reduce stigma associated with mental illness by developing positive initiatives to address discrimination toward individuals with mental illness. LETS Educational Foundation supports student-run LETS Clubs by helping them evaluate the impact of their activities on stigmatizing attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in their school and community."
-Dr. Paula Riggs; Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine

"Phil Fontilia from NAMI Urban LA is doing an incredible job to fight stigma and raise public awareness in the schools and colleges with LETS Clubs Let's Erase the Stigma. In previous times, 'stigma' referred to a mark or tattoo burned into the skin to mark individuals as blemished or morally polluted to be shunned. In modern times stigma has come to be any attribute, trait, or disorder that marks a person as being unacceptable. Today that mark or tattoo is the 'diagnosis. ' Help fight stigma against those with brain illnesses, we need your voice! The one thing that precludes quality treatment for our relatives is the stigma of having a brain illness. LETS is doing something about this stigma. LETS Clubs are forming across America on college campuses and high schools as we speak."
-Sharon Dunas; President, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Westside Los Angeles

"Working with LETS on their San Francisco Marathon fundraising campaign was an absolute pleasure. Not only were they organized and enthusiastic in their communications with our staff, but they put a lot of effort into making their team of runners feel very supported. I look forward to working with them again next year! "
-Erin Sheehy, The San Francisco Marathon

"Kids are the best marketers of what's cool and what's not, setting trends and influencing everyone from their peers to their parents. In a LETS Club they start asking questions like, 'Why am I allowed to talk about my uncle's heart attack but not my grandmother's schizophrenia? ' These questions begin a dialogue about mental health, free from the stigma that acts as a barrier to treatment. Kids create a climate where it's normal to talk about mental health and ask for help before a crisis ever hits."
-Robert Holloway, M.D.