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Harry and Meghan Use World Mental Health Day Platform to Urge Action on Youth Online Harms

Recognized as Humanitarians of the Year in New York, the couple used festival stages to push community responses to risks facing children online.

Overview

  • At Project Healthy Minds events in New York City, Prince Harry warned the digital world has fundamentally altered reality for young people through comparison, harassment, misinformation, and lost sleep.
  • He framed mental health as a collective, systemic issue shaped by public health, foreign policy, climate policy, corporate design, and economic choices.
  • Meghan Markle said Archewell has worked with families devastated by social‑media‑linked harms and emphasized bereaved parents need peer support beyond traditional therapy.
  • The pair accepted Project Healthy Minds’ Humanitarians of the Year award, and Archewell hosted three World Mental Health Day Festival panels that Harry opened by calling mental health a community responsibility.
  • Meghan shared a backstage Instagram clip for World Mental Health Day praising Harry and noted their children are still too young for social media but that the decision point is approaching.