our origins

ante-
(prefix)
origin: latin

meaning: before

antedote was created to be the antidote that comes before a crisis.

we seek to make a joyful, meaningful alternative to costly mental health treatment affordable and available to young men and their families.

after decades of experience working with young people in the field of mental health and substance abuse treatment, michael and yeshaia noticed something troubling and we realized we could be doing more.

we noticed the immense difficulties young people have engaging with traditional treatment approaches, resulting in shockingly low success rates.

we built antedote to empower our members to understand and work through stuckness in a stimulating, dynamic environment, initiating them into an intentioned collective, and developing a framework to support lives of wholeness for themselves and their families.