our maya eaglin tells us about girls be heard. >> i have come from a shelter and i'm not afraid to sayo go. >> what are we doing? >> reporter: anastasia and divinity are performers with girls be heard, centered on empowerment and community, providing resources that have helped thousands of young women. >> show time. >> reporter: the program encourages girls to express themselves using poetry, dance, music and acting and a group of them created a show called "rise: the pursuit of utopia." >> when you don't have people who really are there and would like to tell you i'm proud of you, you've got it, girl. i have that now but didn't have it before. >> reporter: of the over 650,000 people experiencing homelessness in 2023, about half were people of color, and research shows that there are racial disparities in mental health, with black people making up 13% of the u.s. population, but nearly 20% of people living with mental illness are black, and suicides disproportionately affecting black young women. >> talk to me about your mental health journeys. >> i did go through a lot of depression,