Why?

MindCheck began as a response to heartbreak.

Founder Amy Vu, a paramedic of 17 years, spent her career responding to emergencies, including countless teen mental health crises and attempted suicides. The loss of a close EMS partner to suicide made it personal. As a mother of three, including a child with a mental health diagnosis, Amy knew the system wasn’t working.

In early 2025, she began developing a solution: early, school-based mental health screenings to catch warning signs before crisis hits. What started as a personal mission quickly became a public movement.

Now, MindCheck is reaching school districts, government agencies, advocacy groups, and families across the country—one proposal, one voice, one student at a time.

Since launching MindCheck, we’ve:

• Developed and published a full mental health screening proposal for high school students
  
  

• Submitted our proposal to SAMHSA for national mental health initiative funding
  
  

• Reached out to key leaders including school superintendents, state education officials, and mental health advocates
  
  

• Built community support through email campaigns, media pitches, and social media
  
  

• Created student-appropriate screening tools that are trauma-informed and confidential
  
  

• Launched our website and branding to expand visibility and credibility
  
  

We’re most proud of turning grief into action—and creating a movement rooted in lived experience, compassion, and prevention.