Despite heightened awareness, the rates of mental health complications, suicides, and overdoses are soaring... Why? Mental health care remains reactive. In physical health, we track ranges in everything from bodyweight to blood pressure to act early. So, why not do the same for mental health?
Through our education and advocacy efforts we’re disrupting the status quo and working to change the culture of mental health to one of inclusion.
Our science-backed SCALE gives you clarity and empowers you to proactively track your range of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors along a mental health continuum, all in a shareable app. This common language helps you and your community take control before the impacts of life's inevitable challenges accumulate in our minds and bodies, and become crises.
The SCALE App isn’t just for individuals—it’s a way for schools, workplaces, sports teams, military groups, and more to regularly monitor a collective range in mental health. With everyone speaking the same language, your community can build a culture prioritizing mental health daily.
Complete organized check-ins with individuals & groups
Share results and engage with your support network
Prevent crises & foster well being with proactive insights
We collaborate with a variety of groups and organizations to integrate our tools into their systems, making mental health part of their culture. We’ll work with your group’s members to develop a shared mental health language, empowering them to be the heroes of their own mental wellness journeys.
If you’re looking to proactively strengthen your mental health, build resilience, and move toward a healthier place on the SameHere Scale, you’re in the right place. Just like physical health requires a gym, mental health needs intentional and consistent practice. That’s where our STARR Program, or Stress & Trauma Active Release & Rewiring, comes in. Backed by leading researchers in mind and body wellness, STARR provides evidence-based exercises with guided video, audio, and step-by-step instructions to support your journey.
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Our team offers in-person and virtual programs, assemblies, town halls, and professional development sessions tailored to your group. These programs embed the SameHere Scale and STARR into your organization’s ecosystem, helping transform your culture and empower your people.
Focus on emotional resilience, peer support, and coping skills to promote mental well-being for K-12 and college students.
Help military personnel and first responders manage stress, address trauma, and build resilience in their high-stakes roles.
Build a culture of employee wellness, reduce burnout, improve productivity, and go far beyond what a traditional EAP offers.
Foster team resilience, teamwork, and mental well-being in athletes on and off the field, helping them to manage stress effectively.
5 in 5 Inc. is here to help you take control of your mental wellness. Download the Scale App, explore the STARR Program, or bring our solutions to your organization. Together, we can use common language and exercises to reshape how mental health is understood and managed.
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Want to take your skills further beyond the practices in the app? We offer STARR certification courses and bring these practices to your organization or community. STARR can be integrated into systems at:
Equip educators with proactive mental health tools to support students' emotional resilience and foster a culture of well-being.
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Provide innovative, evidence-based exercises and certification training to enhance client recovery and promote lasting mental wellness.
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Just the other day, NfL great Rodney Harrison froze on live TV from exhaustion…and the internet turned it into a joke—while we just lost Marshawn Kneeland to suicide a week ago, and everyone sent love. Same sport. Same brain. Two totally different reactions. When someone locks up, choose compassion before tragedy.
Drop something in comments if you’re done mocking mental health on any level 👇.
#MentalHealthMatters #BrainHealth #RodneyHarrison #NFLMentalHealth #ChooseCompassion #Patriots #Cowboys #athletementalhealth #SameHere🤙 #5in5
A few last pushes on Giving Tuesday. Sharing this along with our friend @kreneemorrison
Kids (students) are struggling in silence — in record numbers — and too many schools still have zero or insufficient programs and tools to help.
This Giving Tuesday, one family, the Morrisons turned unimaginable loss into hope: they fundraised in memory of their son Jack so that #SameHere could bring life-changing mental health programs directly into schools.
Every dollar donated goes straight to the students and teachers to change the culture for the better and provide resources.
Link in Storie to help — let’s reach more schools together. 💙
#GivingTuesday #MentalHealthInSchools #KidsMentalHealth #SuicidePrevention #DonateToMakeADifference #MentalHealthMatters #GivingTuesday2025 #SameHere🤙 #5in5
My body finally forced me to listen this week.
That whisper (“I can’t right now”) isn’t weakness; it’s protection. Biological protection that’s hardwired into us. Protection that I didn’t listen to, because I didn’t know what it was trying to say, before I had my major crash.
But now I’m listening.
NFL QB Andrew Luck didn’t listen to his whispers. And sadly he retired with immense talent, at only 29.
But Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, and Philadelphia Eagles Lineman Lane Johnson did listen. They “Prioritized The Pause”…and came back to win medals and a championship.
The athletes who came back stronger all say the same thing: The pause is part of the comeback.
I’m giving myself permission to pause from the road for a little.
Who’s with me on that pause and grace for yourself?
#BurnoutRecovery #PrioritizeThePause #MentalReset
#SustainableSuccess #RestIsProductive #SimoneBiles
#ComebackStronger #LaneJohnson #Eagles #HumanNotMachine #SameHere🤙 #5in5
As I’d shared over the past week, this holiday season hit me harder than expected.
Why? Non stop travel, presentations, workshops, different states at great distances, all in a short period of time. Then, I missed a medication dose (I’ve been tapering off of and so am super sensitive to) and with the combo of it all, I crashed right back into a short stint of the darkness I hadn’t visited in years. Right after I’d been feeling like I was thriving. The crash can always sneak up on you.
Once you’ve been “there” due to the impact of chronic stress & trauma, you don’t want to ever go back that place again. But life is gonna life.
Yesterday, members of this #SameHere🤙 community surprised me with an 8 minute video montage of love and “we’ve got you” messages from all over the North America.
Some still images from that video are on the 3rd slide ➡️. Thanks to @steinlauri for putting this together & unbeknownst to me; asking some of you to contribute. For those not asked, I’m sure Lauri was just trying to act fast and get something by Thanksgiving & so went to who she was connected with already. Please know that this community is vast and I’d have loved to have heard from even more of you.
Some stats on the video - I’ve not met, in person, about half the people in it. A good chunk of them live in Canada. ZERO of them live by me in the NYC area. But that’s the point - the distance…the lack of in-person…is less important when it’s true heart and care. For a guy who has a tough time accessing emotions, the video made me cry - true love came through the screen.
Reminder received loud and clear:
We don’t have to only celebrate or survive the holidays in the “hallmark” or “textbook” way we are sold.
I have a great family that is super supportive. But outside of that - we all can heal wherever people choose us.
Thankful for this community; and please know there are many folks here who care about and for you - even if they have never met you. Reach out when you need the help.
#ChosenFamily #MentalHealthMatters #YouAreNotAlone #HealingInCommunity #CommunityIsMedicine #HolidaySeasonRealTalk #HolidayTime #HolidayMessage #5in5
Trigg€r Warning on the video:
After I shared my own recent experience with ideations coming back after not taking a tiny single benzo-med (I’ve been working hard to taper completely off of) the other morning over a dozen of you asked what the ideations actually feel like.
Questions came in about: friends & fam going through it, about wanting personally to know what they feel like so you can get in front of them if they happen…even about telling your kids what to look out for so they know when to drop everything they are doing and immediately ask for help.
I hope this is useful for you…and something to share.
Here’s a “rooftop example” that’s the closest way that u can explain the sensations. NOT anything you WANT to do or feel, unlike what most of the phrases in this space: “committed…took their life….k&lled themselves…ended it all” sound like.
It’s not a choice. It’s a glitch.
If you’re still here — you’re a warrior.
If you lost someone — they weren’t weak either.
They just didn’t get the lifeline in time. We need to work to honor them, so that we don’t lose any more in the future.
Share what you want to share in comments - a 🤙 or a samehere or an explanation of what you’ve been thru - let others knows it’s ok to feel these things bc it’s a medical event like any other, and we can fight thru and be here for each other even if in the moment your brain would have you believe otherwise.
#SuicidalIdeation #MentalHealth #YouAreNotAlone #SuicideLoss #BrainHealth #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay #ideations ##SameHere🤙 #5in5
Yesterday was International Suicide Loss Survivors Day… and one missed 0.5 mg dose I’ve been trying to ween off of for a long while, sent me into the darkest morning I’ve had in 8 years.
This can happen to any of us - bc of pills, bc of events, bc of mounting traumas. We are all susceptible. Keep talking.
#MentalHealth #SuicidalIdeation #BenzoWithdrawal #SameHere #speakup #YouAreNotAlone #MentalHealthMatters #SameHere🤙 #5in5
Today is International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. It’s personal to me & us in many ways.
Sadly, the # of people observing today is the highest it’s ever been, bc we have the highest aggregate suicide numbers on record - especially in the US, at over 50k losses in 2024. That # has only been trending upwards since the 1970s.
When we launched #SameHere🤙 Global, we were asked if we were going to focus on “traditional mental health”…or topics like suicide, addiction, overdose, TBI, etc. My answer was - why wouldn’t we? They’re all factors. These issues are all “cousins living in the same house,” & if this topic is truly about #5in5 & lives on a continuum, we have to talk about everyone who’s on that continuum for all sorts of reasons.
It’s why, over the last 4yrs, we’ve become very close w a # of fams who’ve lost loved ones to suicide, & even those for whom we’ve partnered & done work.
A few yrs ago - we put together a call - w a # of fams who’d lost loved ones (many younger loved ones) in this way - fams who’d eventually start groups like Morgan’s Messages, RM43, Hope for Hallie, Hilinski’s Hope, Play for Jade, The McKenna Way, Chasing Tomorrow, 99 Smiles, Katie’s Save, The Sarah Shulze Foundation, Buckets over Bullying, etc. We expected that call to last about an hour. 4 hours later, so many tears were shed, & so many connections were formed. It’s a group that will be bonded forever.
We formed a L.I.F.E. Savers Family alliance (you can see 2 of them on the last slide ➡️) from that meeting - to show the solidarity, bravery, & selflessness of these families who put their stories out there.
And on this first slide, we’ve even partnered w fams like @kreneemorrison & their “Jack’s Fund” to bring educational programs & tools into schools. Kim, Jack’s mom, & their whole fam have become close friends in the process. We will ALWAYS be by their side.
Let’s honor them all today.
#SurvivorDay #SuicideLoss #SuicideLossSurvivor #InternationalSurvivorsofSuicideLossDay #GriefAndLoss #MentalHealthAwareness #YouAreNotAlone
Mental health advocacy on display in the NFL.
Pretty cool to be able to share this #MyCauseMyCleats design.
@tjohnson2442 on the @buffalobills, who scored a big receiving TD, exploding through half the field last week, is set to play tonight, Thursday, wearing these beauties. He’s supporting #SameHere Global through a link via @rayzeapp and their partnership with the NFL.
You can also support his other charity on the cleats in red, Allegany Country Animal Shelter. Whether you donate (you’ll have other opportunities on Giving Tuesday) or you just watch and root him…and so many other great causes on tonight…we really appreciate the support!
Ty found #SameHere Global 5 years ago and selected us - even before we ever connected personally. He’s just a good dude who has been loyal to the cause, since. Rare breed and we so appreciate him!
We’ll share the link in Stories.
#MyCauseMyCleats #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealth #NFL #Charity #Nonprofit #MentalHealthAdvocate #GiveBack #SameHere🤙 #5in5 #MentalWellness #ItsOkayNotToBeOkay #YouAreNotAlone @michaelschwartztv @mdrez07 @amckidney @slivingstn
Last night in Las Vegas, battle warriors became family for something so much bigger than football.
Before kickoff, Cowboys and Raiders players walked out wearing special “Marahawn” t-shirts - some the same, some unique to their connection to him. Dozens had “Marahawn” written in bold marker across their white wrist tape, some added “Forever” above his name, others a simple heart. Dak Prescott wrote “One Love.” On the Dallas sideline, Marshawn’s #94 jersey was on proud display. Players from both sides kept stopping to touch it, hug each other, and/or look up at his family in the stands, and point to the sky.
No trash talk around this topic. No division. Just two teams that battle between the lines, choosing to fight the same invisible opponent together prior to the game.
This is what love louder than rivalry looks like. This is what healing in front of millions feels like. This is what we need more of. Heartfelt speech by Coach Shottenheimer after the game ➡️.
Forever Marahawn 🤍
#MentalHealthMatters #SuicidePrevention #DallasCowboys #MarshawnKneeland #LoveLouder #CowboysNation #RaiderNation #VegasRaiders #SomeThingsAreBigger #SameHere🤙 #5in5
This is the 3rd time we’ve been back with La Salle University Athletics - the entire population of student athletes - to build sequential & interactive mental health programming. SameHere’s “5 Pillars” & methodically going through each with a: A)Presentation, B)Workshop, & C)Implementation Session.
It’s the 2nd time we have been back with Ticonderoga School District, thanks to the generous event & fundraising work of @kreneemorrison & her family on behalf of their son, Jack. With Ticonderoga, we got the teachers & staff up to speed on Pillar 2, while having assembly programs on Pillar 1 with: PreK-2, then 3-6, then their Jr/Sr HS students. Same message, just different delivery based on aptitude levels.
We always work with the teachers/staff first, before going to the students, even if it’s a day before. We want to make sure the stakeholders who have the most influence on the day-to-days, are getting the same education as the kiddos.
Diligent drilling of key concepts - and then tools to have consistent “track and act” - “SameHere Scale & STARR Exercise” - capabilities in a non diagnositc way is vital for the change needed in K-12s & colleges.
Props to my old friend from NBA days, Athleic Director, Ash Puri, for the vision and trust on La Salle. In just a few short years he’s put together a team there that gets “it” & has made a cultural turnaround possible.
If you want to hear more about school or college programming, DM us or write us at contactus@samehereglobal.org
#UpstreamMentalHealth #CultureShift #ProactiveEducation #Ticonderoga #LaSalleUniversity #MentalHealthInSchools #SchoolWellness #MentalHealthEducation #Collegesports #collegeathletementalhealth #SameHere🤙 #5in5
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