Scarleteen’s Project For Awesome 2025 submission!

Update: Voting is now over. Thank you to everyone who voted for Scarleteen during Project for Awesomeexternal link, opens in a new tab 2025! 

"Could you record a short video about your experiences with Scarleteen?"Project For Awesome is an annual fundraising initiative that was started in 2007 by Hank and John Green, AKA the Vlogbrothersexternal link, opens in a new tab. During Project for Awesome(P4A), a plethora of organizations and individuals post videos advocating for causes that “decrease the overall level of world suck.” During P4A, these videos are shared widely, and over the course of a 48-hour livestream, money is raised for the most popular causes.

Scarleteen plans to submit a video for Project For Awesome 2025, and we’re asking you, the people Scarleteen has actually helped, for your help and participation in the video! Your personal experiences with Scarleteen will help us demonstrate that our work is vital, life-changing, has long decreased and continues to decrease the overall level of world suck, and in their words, is awesome.

Here’s where you come in

Do you currently use or have you used Scarleteen for yourself as a young person, as a peer or adult educator, healthcare provider⁠ or other supportive adult, as a parent or guardian or in some other capacity? Then read on, because we’d love your help!

Our goal is to communicate the awesomeness of Scarleteen through your stories and your voices. We’re asking you to capture yourself on video talking about your experience with Scarleteen so we can hear from you in your own words. Before you begin, please take the time to read the clear guidelines provided below. When you’re ready, capture yourself on video and then fill out⁠ the Google form where you can also upload your video.

What happens next?

When we have received your video submission we will begin reviewing your video alongside the others we hope to receive and start pulling snippets which can then be edited into a compelling final video, ready to be uploaded as part of Project for Awesome in 2025!

If you have any other questions and/or concerns about submitting a video please get in touch via email so we can answer your questions.

A big thank you from us for helping Scarleteen continue its awesomeness for years to come!

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