As a group of Muslim college students who have grown up in California, we have experienced and seen the challenges that come with growing up as Muslims in the United States. The tipping point that set us into action was a string of six youth suicides in a small Californian Muslim community in a period of two months. The struggles that our communities’ youth are facing have become tangible and unavoidable.
The Amala Muslim Youth Hopeline began with the aim of providing an accessible, confidential, and culturally competent means of peer counseling and resource referral for Muslim youth.