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JoCo Mental Health Shortage
Johnson County Mental Health
Location
Kansas City Metro
Missouri
United States
ProX Summer
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Competition Brief
ProX is a Real World Learning initiative providing summer professional experiences for high school students.
About
Tim DeWeese is the director of all three mental health centers in the Johnson County area. DeWeese helps the people in the Johnson County area by providing services in the four divisions, as well as emphasizing mental health through Zero Reasons Why, Friends of Johnson County, and the Suicide Prevention Coalition.
Problem
The Johnson County Mental Health Center faces many problems, however, their biggest problem is the workforce shortage.
Solution
Prabhav and I are pitching a solution to open up the opportunities and benefits to students in elementary to high school. This will allow students to seek a better career path in the mental health field and to have more graduates entering the workforce in the future. We will be pitching ideas to provide better community outreach activities, high school internships, as well as job fairs for graduates leaving college.
Audience | Target Market
The main people who are affected by this problem are those facing any mental health crisis or improper substance abuse. Without having more employees, it lowers the success rates for new patients, current patients, and those attempting to re-enter their community.
Learning Outcomes | Community Impact
Our solution will improve the workforce at the Johnson County Mental Health Center. This means that, with more employees in the future, more patients can be successfully helped in the community. This solution will also allow more students to learn about what their career path in the mental health industry can do for them, allowing more students to graduate and join the workforce at a mental health center.
Next Steps
Our next steps would to reach out to the district board members of the Blue Valley School District, Olathe School District, and Shawnee Mission School District to ensure that we can implement our solution in their schools. After confirming the implementation of our solution, we can start creating activities in the schools and partake in their assembles, school events, school games, and clubs.
Reflection | Other Info
We have learned the importance of empathy work and how it is crucial to ask the proper questions during an interview in order to find a common problem each division has. We applied this empathy work into our solution to improve the workforce and help more people in our community.
Resource | Support Needs
We are not currently accepting contributions from our voters. This pitch is part of the ProX competition for $5,000. We will use this extra funding to pay for future basketball/football games to be able to spread and talk about the mental health career path. We will also be using this extra funding to pay off the summer internships we are providing to two interns and maybe pay extra to have more interns.
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4/24/25, 3:56 PM
This was a fantastic pitch! You showed how informed you are about the market space you are entering by understanding and adding in the gamification that comes with your mascot.
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4/24/25, 3:48 PM
Your video is grate and shows how much work you have put in to a Cotten candy business! I did get lost when reading the written submission as it covers skin care products and not cotton candy. This discrepancy made the pitch unclear but a simple update and clarification would get you back on track in no time.
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4/23/25, 6:42 PM
Great job, Michael!
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Great job, Israel!
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4/23/25, 12:19 AM
Great job, Joy!
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4/22/25, 2:11 PM
Great job, Raya!
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4/22/25, 2:13 AM
Great Job!
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4/21/25, 8:52 PM
Great products and it sounds like you already have a business going and could grow it even more!
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PS- I am a business owner as well :) (Platos Closet Belton)
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4/21/25, 8:27 PM
Hello! Great idea! I feel your passion and connection to your business idea!
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I am also own a Plato's Closet in Belton, MO ( IG: #platosclosetbeltonmo) and I think it is a wonderful idea to help support identity through clothing. It helps build confidence and individuality.
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4/20/25, 1:26 PM
Great job, Jesiah!
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