About us
Inspire Youth USA was founded by Dr. Anthony Safaeian in 2021. Being a concerned parent to three children, frustrating state of politics for the past few years, society and social issues, and academic inadequacies and failures , Dr. Safaeian couldn't sit idle and watch the new generation of children suffer. Staying on the sidelines is not a solution to the issue of youth here in the USA. We are losing too many children to politicians' inaction, racial and political polarization, overburdened public school systems, use and abuse of recreational drugs, and mental health problems especially post covid era. It seems that no one really cares about the state of youth. To stay silent, is to lose the next generation of Americans. To stay idle, is to give up on the American dream for future generations. To stay inactive, is to let our country lapse into obsolescence and despair.
Our Mission
Inspire Youth USA is a nonprofit entity with a sole focus of youth development and viability. It's our aim to utilize multitude of resources to bring about real change so we can help inspire our children to look to the future. To help facilitate growth and wellbeing: to become educators, physicians, technicians, and business leaders of tomorrow.
Issues facing Gen Zers & beyond:
Our children face many hurdles, from soaring student loan debts, high inflation, job insecurity and negative market outlook especially post pandemic, the advent of robotics and AI taking over both white and blue collar jobs, not to mention the longer hold on existing positions by baby boomers because of financial uncertainty and insolvency, extending retirement to more advanced age; unsustainable and unaffordable cost of health insurance, untenable, unendurable and unsustainable social security and Medicare programs, to abysmal state of public education and academia, high cost of tuition making university education unaffordable, high cost of rent and real estate, and the policy decisions made by baby boomers that adversely affect younger generation's' financial wellbeing, the unaffordability to form families, and last but not least, not to feel mentally strained on their future outlook.
An additional bottleneck to the above-mentioned economic vitality issue for our future generations is the structural and systemic implementation of policy guidelines and formations that set a big part of our society to fail by denying them opportunities for success.
Discriminatory policy settings and implementation has created a wealth-gap that favors certain part of our society over others. Low and stagnated wages, and reduced benefits has disproportionally affected minority workers and people of color.
We have been brainwashed by the myth that economic failure and misery is a byproduct of laziness and lack of hard work. Besides the regenerated interest in some circles about the erroneous and immoral theory of eugenics and scientific racism, and propelling such ideas forward by financially supporting them, on more widespread normal economic circles, we are taught to believe that economic disparity amongst races is because of poor savings and investment decisions, chronic long-term reliance on public help and support that merits individual effort and initiative meaningless. We are all born equal. Not everyone in our current system is offered equal opportunity and economic viability.
In addition to economic decline, and to the same extent climate crisis facing the new generation of Americans, the birth of social media has triggered a tsunami of mental health crisis in teenage girls and young adults. The paramount time when our daughters need the most to feel safe, secure, enabling them to grow up healthy and happy, they now have to face and struggle with depression, anxiety, cyber bullying, body image issues, eating disorders, and thus realizing at a very young age that they are vulnerable and disadvantaged, their every action under microscopic analysis, all the while exposed greatly to the themes that only an adult should be burdened to face.
We are now facing a phenomenon which really didn't exist a couple of decades ago. It is now in itself a full-blown pandemic, and it is termed self-harm. Self-harm or self-injury is also known as self-mutilation or self-abuse. It is highly prevalent in adolescent girls. A 2018 study of over 64,000 teens across the United States found that almost 18% had purposely injured themselves in the past year. And why would a child attempt to self-mutilate themselves? Psychologists believe that the main reason is to try to regulate their emotions - to manage distressing emotions, to calm down, to get destressed, and get a sense of comfort in the process.