2026-02-05T15:03:53-05:00 2025-09-30 Richmond Business Advisors 1 Hawthorne Lane Westport CT 06880 990 2024-10-01 841971832 Young Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc % James Hood YOUN 2038561788 33 Soundview Drive Westport CT 06880 JAMES HOOD CEO and Secretary 2038561788 2026-02-05 true true DAVID KASS P02362505 2033688034 2026-02-05 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Generation SOS James Hood 33 Soundview Drive Westport CT 06880 558525 false X www.generationsos.org X 2019 CT The mission of Generation S.O.S. is helping teens and young adults make life-saving decisions about substance misuse and other mental health issues. 18 17 0 45 0 0 276259 284874 0 137 3714 185660 174713 462056 463301 5000 5000 0 0 0 21668 399680 463522 404680 468522 57376 -5221 347639 393418 51000 347639 342418 X The mission of Generation S.O.S. is helping teens and young adults make life-saving decisions about substance misuse and other mental health issues. true false 218301 Generation S.O.S.s widely acclaimed prevention program, recently featured on CBS Evening News Eye on America, helps teens before mental health problems develop into life-threatening conditions that are exceedingly difficult to treat. In 2025, we reached over 100,000 students nationwide. Our peer-to-peer program brings young speakers who have struggled with and overcome crippling mental health and substance misuse challenges into schools and community organizations to share their stories and offer hope and help. These stories are raw, relatable, and incredibly inspiring. They encourage honest conversations and reduce the stigma around mental health and substance misuse. Students learn warning signs, coping skills and, importantly, to ask for help if theyre struggling. Our schoolwide Generation S.O.S. assemblies have inspired students to start Generation S.O.S. clubs around the country and to continue honest dialogue about mental health throughout the year. 107142 In 2025, Generation S.O.S. put significant effort behind two initiatives to greatly expand our reach, and connect within communities facing distinct mental health and substance misuse challenges. We significantly increased the number of meetings in under-resourced communities in Manhattan, Harlem, and the Bronx. We have forged new partnerships with NYJTL, New York Edge, KIPP schools, and Mama Foundation for the Arts, which are building our presence in these communities. Our Correctional Community Initiative brings Zoom meetings from male and female correctional facilities in Ohio and Virginia to schools nationwide. This is an invaluable opportunity for teens and young adults to hear the difficult stories of other young adults that led them to substance misuse, crime and incarceration, and understand that we are all more similar than different. The response to this initiative has been extraordinary, and we intend to partner with many more correctional facilities. 67602 In 2025, we began building a comprehensive video library of our speakers for schools and community organizations to use, at no cost, to reach audiences where and when Generation S.O.S. is unable to participate in-person or via Zoom. We are creating videos for use with middle school, high school, and college-age students, reflecting varied socioeconomic backgrounds and discussing a range of mental health and social challenges that often lead to trauma in the lives of our youth. This library will also be made available to our nonprofit partners who have their own unique distribution channels, including New York Junior Tennis & Learning in the Bronx, New York Edge, the Center for Hope and Healing in Houston, and the Skeer Lab at Tufts University Medical School, among others. These videos will help us continue to drive down the delivery cost of bringing Generation S.O.S. to teens and young adults everywhere. 393045 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 9 0 true 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false X 18 17 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false X X James W Hood 2038561788 33 Soundview Drive Westport CT 06880 James Hood CEO and Secretary 60.00 0.00 X X X 150000 0 0 Robin Aviv Board Chair 0.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Darlene Perez Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lorinda Ash Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dorothy Johnson Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jeff Leimsider Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Katherine Mitchell Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Wendy Cleary Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Steve Altman Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Heller Wold Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Bandier Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Chip Garner Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Bill Bonbrest Treasurer 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Gary Kline Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Paul Brennan Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Katie Aviv Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Walton Goldring Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Debra Resnicoff Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 150000 0 0 1 false false false James W Hood 33 Soundview Drive Westport CT 06880 Management 150000 1 284874 30483 284874 3714 3714 269937 95224 174713 174713 463301 0 0 178427 5000 5000 433367 368362 43337 21668 9000 9000 1795 1795 2944 1472 1472 5031 5031 3696 3696 1043 1043 Bank Charges 92 92 Video Production 6554 6554 468522 393045 53809 21668 347179 358762 460 34656 347639 393418 51000 0 51000 X 347639 342418 347639 342418 347639 393418 -5221 0 X true X false true false X 198552 123923 303355 261259 284874 1171963 204506 41627 206212 233252 269937 955534 403058 165550 509567 494511 554811 2127497 140000 79000 232383 290483 741866 140000 79000 232383 0 290483 741866 1385631 137 137 137 137 3713 3713 403058 165550 509567 494648 558524 2131347 0.65010 0.68130 0.00000 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Hamptons 269937 269937 22500 28715 6111 24398 13500 269937 269937 22500 28715 6111 24398 13500 95224 174713 X 2 30483 Fair Market Value false false false Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 This document was prepared collaboratively between Generation S.O.S.s CEO, Director of Communications, and outside CPA and then reviewed with the Founder/Board Chair and Treasurer. Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c We have an all-volunteer, unpaid board. Generation S.O.S. does not charge schools or other organizations for our prevention services. The only potential for conflict of interest is if a director were an investor in, or otherwise affiliated with, an addiction treatment center and used his/her involvement with Generation S.O.S. to benefit that for-profit business. None of our directors is affiliated with any such business, nor does Generation S.O.S. align with, or endorse, any for-profit treatment businesses. CEO executive director top management comp Part VI line 15a The CEO is an independent contractor working exclusively for the organization and performs several functions within that role. His compensation was set by the Founder/Board Chair, who provided the seed funding of the organization. The CEOs compensation is disclosed in all budget documents presented to the board, and is unchanged since the inception of the organization, nearly 7 years ago. Other officer or key employee compensation Part VI line 15b The CEO is the only full-time, independent contactor working exclusively for the organization. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 Governing documents are available upon request. Significant program services not listed on prior year return Part III line 2 While the program services described in 4b and 4c were not listed in the prior years Form 990, they are not completely new initiatives. Rather, they have become much more important in the overall mix of our work. Generation S.O.S. has always worked with under-resourced communities, but as the opportunity and need to do so have increased dramatically, so have our efforts to expand our work in this critical area. Similarly, while we have always strived to make video recordings of our meetings and presentations, we recognized the need to build a professionally filmed, curated library of speaker videos that could, on their own, bring the Generation S.O.S. message to audiences everywhere. As such, we have formalized this effort.