Shivs Third Eye

Congratulations to all the “MindSpeak” Essay Competition 2024 by Shiv’s Third Eye participants, for being the fearless change makers and bringing their “VOICE”! The winners of the competition each got a letter of Recognition from Governor Phil Murphy, a Congressional certificate from Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, a certificate, a trophy and a cash prize up to $500 from Shiv’s Third Eye!

MindSpeak Essay Competition 2025

Youth Mental Wellness Fair

Pride Month Card 2025

Buy and enjoy the Pride Month 2025 Card !! This year the card is featuring more than 60 local businesses who are helping the community to be inclusive and offering you discounts and promotions throughout the month of June when you show the card!!
Click here to review the fantastic savings and buy the card!!

Livingston Pride Picnic 2025
Youth Mental Wellness Fair 2024
MindSpeak Essay Competition 2024
Pride Month Card 2024

Buy and enjoy the Pride Month 2024 Card !! This year the card is featuring more than 60 local businesses who are helping the community to be inclusive and offering you discounts and promotions throughout the month of June when you show the card!!
Click here to review the fantastic savings and buy the card!!

Pride Picnic 2024

On June 2nd, 2024 we hosted the 3rd Pride Picnic at Livingston Oval. The event was a celebration of and for LGBTQ+ youth with music, art, food , games and more.

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Youth Mental Wellness Fair 2023

Youth Mental Wellness Fair 2023 (Click here for details)

We look forward to seeing you Sunday, Nov 5th at Livingston High School ( 1-5 pm)

"MindSpeak" Essay Competition For Middle School & High School students 2023

“MindSpeak” Essay Competition (Click Here for the flyer)

Competition Guidelines and Submission Link

We are so impressed with an absolutely amazing response from the Youth all over New Jersey!! We had 65+ entries and the judges found it hard to pick the winners with so many phenomenal entries!!

Livingston Pride Picnic 2023
The Pride Picnic 2023 was a huge success with hundreds of pre-teens/teens and families in attendance. This year the Livingston Township Diversity and Inclusion committee joined hands with Shiv’s Third Eye to collaborate and have the flag raising ceremony on the same day as Picnic. It was an amazing celebration of diversity & inclusion with live music, entertainment, food and activities!! Here are the performances and the speeches by the teenagers!

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Pride Month 2023 Card by Shiv's Third Eye
Local businesses show solidarity and celebrate the beautiful diversity of our community by providing different promotions from June 1st to June 30th. Physical copy of the card is needed to get the discounts. Contact [email protected] to buy the card.
Parents' Talk at Glen Rock Gurudwara

Parents’ Talk at Glen Rock Gurudwara
When: Sunday Nov 13th, 2022 @12:30 pm

Where: Glen Rock Gurudwara
541, Prospect Stree, Glen Rock, NJ 07452

Rutgers University New Brunswick APIDA LGBTQ Collaboration

Where: Asian American  Cultural Center, Rutgers University (New Brunswick)

When: Nov 9, 2022

"Out of Darkness" AFSP Walk

Participated in Essex County American Foundation of Suicide Prevention “Out of Darkness” Walk

When: Sunday Oct 30th, 2022 @12:45 pm
Where: Verona Park, Verona, NJ

NJ High School Democrats Panel
Youth Mental Wellness Fair
Youth Mental Wellness Fair Description and Schedule

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Panel Discussion on Youth Mental Health

 

Let’s Talk About It – Breaking the Silence on Youth Mental Health presented by Shiv’s Third Eye 

Where: Brihan Maharashtra Mandal 2022 Convention in Atlantic City, NJ

When: Aug 12, 2022
@3:30 pm

Livingston's First Pride Picnic

Livingston’s First Pride Picnic was a resounding success attended by 500+ community members made up almost 60% of teenagers. Everyone enjoyed beautiful performances, awesome arts activities(rock painting/face painting/chalk walk/community art project), games (volleyball, badminton, frisbee), live music and above all storytelling sessions by teenagers.

Parent Seminar & Middle School Teen Seminar
  • Topic: Raising Realistic children and teens under the influence or Reality TV & Social Media (Parents)
  • Topic: Helping your friends when they feel sad (Middle Schoolers)

When: Tuesday, May 3rd, 7:30pm – 8:30 pm 

Where: LifeTown -10 Microlab Road, Livingston

Fundraiser - Volleyball Game HMS Staff vs Students

On March 30th, 2022 Heritage Middle School thrilling games of volleyball were played between the staff & students. HMS HSA raffled fantastic giveaways. The sale of games tickets raised $1500 in support of Shiv’s Third Eye. Thank you Heritage Middle School team and HMS HSA!!

Youth Led Panel Discussion
  • Topic : Let’s Talk about Mental Health – Launching Shiv’s Third Eye Foundation

    Date: March 20th 5:00pm – 5:45 pm EST

Our Stories With Shilpa Kulkarni

Shilpa Kulkarni speaks to Kingston and Dr. Asha about Shiv Kulkarni at facebook live for Desi Rainbow Parents & Allies

Resources

Parent Support Network

Providers

Parent Toolbox

Teenage Toolbox

LGBTQ + Resources

Library

Shiv's Story

For Shiv Kulkarni, a sweet, kind, bright, 14-year old, rising high school freshman, it seemed like he had everything going for him. He had won multiple medals in table tennis and his USATT rating was on the rise. He was a valued setter in his middle school as well as club volleyball team. He loved piano and excelled in it. He was modest about it, but his art was often picked in the school district art fair. His academic performance was consistently very strong. He was very well liked by his peers, teachers and most of the people around him. Most of all he was dearly loved by his immediate & extended family. But all of this was not enough. Shiv suffered from Major Depressive Disorder…

our mission

Building resilience, better mental health in adolescents and their surrounding communities through education, awareness, and sponsoring research for the diagnosis, treatment modalities of adolescent mental health.

Our Vision

A world where children understand the importance of mental well being as much as physical well being, where they feel confident in accepting whoever they are and they thrive in a stigma-free society about mental illness and/or their sexual/gender identity. We hope for objective treatment options for adolescent mental health through research and clinical trials.

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Be a part of Shiv’s Third Eye Community and get the latest updates and news about our initiatives!
If you like to contact us directly, please email [email protected] Follow us on Social media

DONATE

Please help us continue ou important work!

There are three ways to donate

1

Click the donate button

Follow the instructions to securely pay by card

2

By Check

Send your donation made payable to:

Shiv’s Third Eye
2 Alpine Way Livingston
NJ 07039

3

Via Venmo

Venmo Username