Nonprofit founded by Tiburon teens aims to address peers’ mental health

Jack Goldstein (center), along with sister Athena and longtime friend Nicholas Lieberman, founded the nonprofit JAR Farms, offering retreats, seminars, dinners and other activities to enrich teens’ mental health.

Four Tiburon Peninsula teens are on a mission to address what they say is a growing youth mental-health crisis.

Siblings Jack, Athena and Rex Goldstein, along with Jack’s longtime friend and family neighbor Nicholas Lieberman, are behind the nonprofit JAR Farms, which was created in 2023 and now runs out of the Goldsteins’ home on Paradise Drive.

Their goal, they say, is to transform the property into a space for fellow teens in Generations Z and Alpha to come together and create feelings of belonging in a nature-focused environment where they can “learn by doing,” says Athena, 17 and a rising senior at Redwood High School.

“Living where we do, there is so much privilege here,” she says. “And I think we need to teach in a way that we get that, and we incorporate that into how we give back.”

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