Introducing Dr. Kitzia Moreno-Garza: Her Identity Story
Dr. Kitzia Moreno-Garza is our BIPOC Fellow for 2023–2024, working closely with Senior Research Associate Nabil Tueme to understand how race and culture...
The Springtide Blog
The blog uses applicable and approachable insights pulled from our latest research, contextualizes our research with current events and lived experience, and offers posts written by young people, experts in the field, and Springtide staff and advisory board members.
Submit Your Photo for My Sacred Space
Each year, Springtide explores a different facet of young people’s religious and spiritual lives; in 2023 we turned to look at how young...
Young People Recommend Books for their Spiritual Growth
We’re just a couple months away from our release of The State of Religion & Young People 2023 report, which is focused on how...
How Can You Make Your School More Mental-Health Friendly? Five Questions for Educators
Another school year is here, and students are making their way back into the classroom. School is where young people spend a lot...
What Is Relational Authority?
For our first State of Religion and Young People report in 2020, we surveyed thousands of young people and interviewed dozens more on...
Introducing Hannah Evans: Her Research Story
Springtide Research Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Hannah Evans to our team. She is a sociologist who specializes in how racial and...
Introducing Jaclyn Doherty: Her Research Story
Springtide Research Institute is pleased to welcome Jaclyn Doherty to our team. Jaclyn is a PhD candidate in Psychology at The Graduate Center,...
Finding “My People”
In our report Navigating Injustice, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) young people shared stories about the racial prejudice and discrimination they’ve experienced...
A Sense of Home Everywhere
In our report Navigating Injustice, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) young people shared stories about the racial prejudice and discrimination they’ve experienced...
Lonely? Religion and spirituality can help.
In Belonging: Reconnecting America’s Loneliest Generation, our 2020 report that contains responses and reflections from more than 1,000 young people ages 13–25, the...
Four Ways Adults Can Support Young People “Post-Pandemic” in 2023
While the crisis designations have dropped and masks are now tucked away in drawers and cabinets, less tangible residuals of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Loving God, Loving Myself
For Pride Month, we asked members of our Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP) who identify as LGBTQ+ to reflect upon: “How does your identity...
Interfaith panel shares insights based on new movie
Our newest interfaith panel is 46 minutes of pure wisdom. Four dynamic women faith leaders gathered to discuss the spiritual and religious themes...
A Queer Faith
For Pride Month, we asked members of our Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP) who identify as LGBTQ+ to reflect upon: “How does your identity...
How to Show Young People You Care
Our data provides a number of insights from young people on mental health as well as practical ways any adult can support young...
Resources for caring for LGBTQ+ Young People
At Springtide, we know many members of Gen Z deem the values of authenticity and inclusion as fundamental – they want to show...
Faith and Hindu Identity
In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’ve invited members of our Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP) to reflect on how their...
Gen Z and Belief: A Closer Look
One of Springtide’s key aims is to illustrate how young people understand and make meaning in an increasingly complex world. One way we...
Three Ways to Support Mental Health for BIPOC Gen Z
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we’ll be sharing tips from our insights from young people on mental health. For our report...
Religious and Spiritual Practice: How Faith Leaders Can Support Gen Z Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we’ll be sharing tips from our insights from young people on mental health. For our report...
Purpose: Three Ways Adults Can Bolster Gen Z Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we’ll be sharing tips from our insights from young people on mental health. For our report...
Faith and Filipino Identity: Reflections for AAPI Month
In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’ve invited members of our Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP) to reflect on how their...
Loneliness: Three Ways Educators Can Support Students
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we’ll be sharing tips from our insights from young people on mental health. For our report...
How you were raised can affect how you parent
Parents are deeply shaped by the experiences they grew up in and were surrounded by–which can often be overlooked (or even forgotten) as...
Parents Play Key Role in Youth Mental Health
We are just days away from the release of the final offering in our Springtide Series on Mental Health: Nurturing Mental Health for...
Springtide BIPOC Fellow Shares How Her Race and Faith Intersect
Cassandra Ogbevire, our 2022-2023 BIPOC Research Fellow, recently shared commentary with Sojourners Magazine, where she discussed how the findings of Navigating Injustice were reflected...
More Insights on Generation Alpha
The oldest of Generation Alpha, the generation following Gen Z, turn 13 this year, which means they will enter the demographic of young...
Women who inspire: Reflections for Women’s History Month
For Women’s History Month, we’re pleased to feature members of our 2023 Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP) as they reflect on women who have...
Women who guide and mentor: Reflections for Women’s History Month
For Women’s History Month, we’re pleased to feature members of our 2023 Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP) as they reflect on women who have...
Springtide embarks on 3-year project to learn what’s engaging Gen Z
Since our inception, Springtide has aimed to offer research and actionable insights to help those who care for young people to care better....
Women who have made an impact: Reflections for Women’s History Month
For Women’s History Month, we’re pleased to feature members of our 2023 Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP) as they reflect on women who have...
Gen Z Mental Health: How They Get Help
It’s no secret that the decline in mental health among young people has reached epidemic levels. Yet, Generation Z also has unprecedented numbers...
Watch what being a Black Christian woman means to a young person
This blog post features a video made by SAP member Imani for Faith Counts. Below, Imani shares her vision for the video and...
A Snapshot of Black LGBQ+ Religious and Spiritual Life
Social science has long proven that the development of our identities is impacted by our parents are, the ZIP code where we were...
What young BIPOC want faith leaders to know
In our last post, we explored some of the key insights in our newest report, Navigating Injustice: A Closer Look at Race, Faith...
Navigating Injustice Shares What Race, Faith and Mental Health Mean for BIPOC Gen Z
Mental health issues are a reality for many young people, and COVID only intensified the problem. In 2022, nearly half of young people...
Who is living their best life?: A Profile of a Flourishing Gen Zer
We all want to do well in life. We all want to be happy, have meaning and purpose, and be surrounded by great...
How isolation harms mental health for Gen Z
There are a number of red flags when it comes to mental health – and young people tell us that when the red...
11 stats on the religious and spiritual lives of non-binary young people
Of the thousands of young people we surveyed for our research on Gen Z, faith and mental health, one-third said they are not...