My name is Elise Yankopoulos and HelpForFriend is my Girl Scout Gold Award and passion project. I created this website because starting as early as 6th grade, I had friends coming and talking to me about their mental health problems at all times of the day and night. This was often when I was alone and had no one to ask advice from. It can be an incredibly stressful experience when someone you care about is struggling and you don’t know how to help them and are worried about whether you are doing or saying the right things. Because of this, I have spent the past 6+ years researching mental health and psychology, as well as volunteering on my High School’s crisis response team, to try to figure out the best ways to help those around me. This website is a culmination of that knowledge taken directly from credible resources. It is designed to help people who are in similar situations to what I was in, because this is a resource I wish I would have had.