195. Enhancing Mental Health Support for Marginalized Youth: Evaluation and Future Directions of the Sova Initiative Youth-Led Emotional Health Curriculum for Workforce Development Settings

Supporting Our Valued Adolescents (SOVA) is an evidence-based psychoeducational intervention aiming to address adolescent mental health disparities by providing online peer-led mental health education, focusing on underserved, marginalized groups. We previously used implementation mapping to develop a youth-led emotional health curriculum as an implementation strategy to facilitate introduction of SOVA to low-income youth, consisting mainly of youth of color, participating in workforce development community-based programs.