WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3rd, 2016 10am to 1pm YOUTH UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS ECOSOC MENTAL CHAMBER WELLBEING FOR SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SDGs MEDIA KIT www.ibreafoundation.org/youthconference Introduction 1.8 billion of our world’s population today is between the ages of 10 and 24, and half of the world’s population is under 30. Despite such a huge number and the great potential changes they could make to advance the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), today’s youth is largely dissatisfied and unmotivated. Concentrated mostly in developing countries, and suffering from huge unemployment rates and lack of education, more often than not, they resort to measures such as protest, violence, school dropouts, illegal migration, and in some cases fall victims of rape, unwanted pregnancies, domestic violence or human trafficking. So the question begs, how can we channel that great, powerful, young energy, towards more productive action? It can take a long time to fix the existing unhealthy systems to provide a better environment for our youth. However, there is a lot that can be done right away through changes in the youth’s and the surrounding communities’ mentality. By nurturing their confidence and positive outlook, young people will gradually build up a strong mindset that can encourage them in the face of challenge. The Organizer IBREA foundation is committed to the goal of including youth as solid partners for the implementation of the SDGs. IBREA’s work focuses on unleashing the brain’s great po- tential, leading to better health, increased motivation, emotion- al wellbeing, and enhanced purpose and concentration. Rather than offering technical or material solutions to the youth, what IBREA’s program offers is a space to train themselves and find their own power inside themselves. Through a journey of self-development they come to find their own means to achieve their goals and dreams and contribute to healthier societies. IBREA Foundation, 866 UN Plaza Room 407, New York NY 10017 • [email protected] Sponsorship Packages This is your opportunity to contribute to this exciting and unique Conference on “Youth Mental Wellbeing For Successful Implementation of the SDGs”, a summit for UN representatives, diplomats, educators, re- searchers and other groups to pay close attention to youth issues, which will provide you and your company with valuable exposure to potential clients, consumers and networking contacts, while aiding speakers and participants from the developing world to participate. Your contribution will sponsor their participation. Listed below are the various levels of participation and their benefits. Please select the option you prefer. Platinum Sponsor $10,000 Silver $5,000 10 Conference complimentary registrations 3 Conference complimentary registrations Acknowledgement at the Closing Session Acknowledgement at the Closing Session. Access to high profile personalities Access to high profile personalities Listing as an official sponsor in Conference ma- Listing as an official sponsor in Conference ma- terial (folder and booklet for participants, and terial (folder and booklet for participants, and Conference Agenda conference t-shirt) conference t-shirt) (Press Opportunities) Full-page advertisement Advertisement on Conference website Opening Remarks on 2 issues of Brain World Magazine We are 501(c)(3) organization, your sponsorship will be exempt from income tax. H.E. Mr. Oh Joon, President of ECOSOC Advertisement on the Conference website Mr. Ahmed Alhendawi, Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth Advertisement on Brain World magazine’s website Bronze $2,000 Opportunity to suggest a speaker relevant to the 2 conference complimentary registrations Presentations topic of the conference Dr. Michael Gershon, MD PhD, Neuroscientist, Columbia University Access to high profile personalities We are 501(c)(3) organization, your sponsorship will be exempt from income tax. Ilchi Lee, Founder and President of IBREA Foundation Listing as an official sponsor in Conference ma- Adora Svitak, Bloomberg Philanthropy terial (folder and booklet for participants, and Monen Duoe, Junior officer, Government of Liberia Gold $7,500 conference t-shirt Collette Hemmings, Chief Operating Officer at Nike Foundation 5 Conference complimentary registrations Advertisement on Conference website Chernor Bah, Member of Parliament and Youth Activist, Sierra Leone Acknowledgement at the Closing Session We are 501(c)(3) organization, your sponsorship will be exempt from income tax. Youth testimonies from Korea, Japan, El Salvador, Sierra Leone Access to high profile personalities IBREA case study: Hawaii public middle school Listing as an official sponsor in Conference ma- Patron $1,000 IBREA testimony: Laura from El Salvador terial (folder and booklet for participants, and 2 Conference complimentary registrations Youth Open Forum Discussion conference t-shirt) 2 Conference t-shirts (Press Opportunities) Half-page advertisement on 2 issues of Brain World Magazine We are 501(c)(3) organization, your sponsorship will be exempt from income tax. Participants in the Conference Advertisement on Conference website Friend $500 We are 501(c)(3) organization, your sponsorship will be exempt from income tax. +500 1 Conference complimentary registration UN Representatives & Diplomats 1 Conference t-shirt College students & young people interested in youth wellbeing We are 501(c)(3) organization, your sponsorship will be exempt from income tax. World Peace Leadership (WPL) program youth participants Educators *** We also accept in-kind donations for the conference. Details available upon inquiry. Entrepreneurs Mental health professionals Nonprofit representatives Terms of Payment Philanthropists The Sponsor agrees to enclose with this application full payment. Payments should be made payable to IBREA Foun- Scientific community dation and forwarded to: 866 UN Plaza, Room 407 New York NY 10017. To be included in any promotional materials, the contract and full payment must be received. United Nations Co-Sponsors Sponsorship Rules & Regulations Corporations, consulting firms, manufacturers, government agencies, colleges and universities and other associa- Permanent Representation of Liberia to the UN tions are eligible. IBREA Foundation reserves the right to determine the eligibility of any sponsor or sponsorship Permanent Representation of El Salvador to the UN during the course of the Youth Mental Wellbeing conference. Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the UN Adora Svitak Dr. Michael D. Gershon Ilchi Lee Ambassador Oh Joon Ahmad Alhendawi Chernor Bah Dr. Barbara Melamed Isabel Pastor Guzman Laura Calderon Since the age of four, Adora has Dr. Gershon’s first investigation, Ilchi Lee is the Founder and Presi- Ambassador Oh Joon is the Am- Ahmad Alhendawi of Jordan is Chernor Bah works at the Unit- Dr. Melamed is an experienced Isabel is currently Program Direc- Laura has been receiving IBREA been exploring what she can do undertaken while a medical stu- dent of IBREA Foundation. Originally bassador and Permanent Repre- the first-ever United Nations Sec- ed Nations under Gordon Brown, Clinical Health Psychologist with tor at IBREA Foundation and Editor Foundation’s program since 2011. with the written word: every- dent, showed that 5-HT is a me- trained in martial arts and natural sentative of Republic of Korea to retary-General’s Envoy on Youth. UN Special Envoy for Global Ed- Board Certification in Behavioral in Chief of Brain World Magazine, Since then, she has strived to make thing from championing litera- diator of anaphylactic shock in healing methods, Mr. Lee has been the United Nations in New York. He He assumed office in February ucation, as an advocate for girls’ Medicine. She is well known in the a quarterly publication providing the best of her experience and un- cy and youth voice to working mice. During postdoctoral work working over three decades to ex- assumed this position in Septem- 2013. A strong youth advocate education. He travels around the areas of children’s health issues and the latest discoveries about the leash her confidence and inner with the UN’s World Food Pro- with Edith Bülbring, he suggest- pand the notion that every human ber 2013. Currently, he is serving at the national, regional and in- world mobilizing young people to was awarded the American Psycho- human brain and how it relates power to create the life she wants. gramme to raise awareness about ed that 5-HT is an enteric neu- being has a great capacity to heal as the President of the Economic ternational levels, Mr. Alhendawi stand up for their right to educa- logical Associations distinguished to our daily lives. As certified Laura is a young girl from one world hunger. Hoping to instill rotransmitter. As Chair of Anato- themselves and others through and Social Council (ECOSOC). He was described by the UN Secre- tion, speaking at conferences and Research Award in Pediatrics. She trainer by IBREA since November of the poorest and most violent her love of writing in others, she my & Cell Biology at Columbia, he mindfulness, body movement, and also serves as the President of tary-General as “the youngest events related to social justice and has produced well-known scales in 2009, Isabel has developed and neighborhoods in San Salvador. taught her first class at a local maintained his focus on enteric targeted action. From his early the Conference of States Parties senior official at the United Na- peace. In May 2014, Chernor was children’s