Schools for Strong Minds provides school leaders with science-backed insights to identify challenges, create targeted interventions, and build a school environment where students can thrive emotionally, socially, and academically.
Mind health is the ability to navigate life’s challenges and function productively.
Over the past few decades, the mental health of adolescents in the United States has steadily declined despite rising investment in mental health services. And the problem extends beyond the standard definition of mental health disorders to a more comprehensive decline in cognitive, emotional, social, and physical capacities. Together, these capacities and mental health symptoms form our mind health, underpinning the ability to navigate life’s challenges and function productively. Our data shows that over 50% of adolescents struggle with their mind health and wellbeing where they experience 5 or more problems or symptoms of clinical significance.
This is playing out in schools in ways like:
With the right insights, schools can improve student engagement, academic performance, and overall mind health.
This survey hits a lot of areas I haven’t seen with others
Peter Smith
Father
Students take so many surveys but this is the first one where they see the results.
Peter Smith
Father
By combining meaningful insights with targeted action, schools see measurable improvements in student mind health, trust, and connection. Schools that implemented the Schools for Strong Minds program have achieved positive results, for example:
Join the growing movement of schools using data to create an environment where students can thrive emotionally, socially, and academically.
