Help every youth develop skills and grow

As we emerge from COVID 19, there is great concern around challenges we are facing with our youth's overall mental, social, and emotional health. We must support our youth's growth and learning in a holistic and scalable manner to recover from the potential learning loss of the pandemic. According to experts, social relationships, emotional skills, mental health wellness, access to resources addressing poverty, and trauma coping mechanisms are crucial for youth to come back ready for school.
 
We need a scalable solution that can keep growing over the next few years.
 
At Higher Ground, we developed a patented self-evaluation and life-coaching system using science, experience, and empathy. It has allowed us to create individualized strategies for every youth and their family to support their life skills growth while increasing their access to resources and opportunities. This has created outcomes that have allowed our organization to serve thousands of youth in our city. We have helped improve self-control and resilience while also improving overall school attendance and increasing access to resources. This method has helped us support youth suffering from trauma, giving them skills and support systems to succeed. 
 
Now, we have translated this system into an app to reach the youth where they are. BeMapt™ is a mobile and web-based application that enables youth to visualize their current assets, needs, and opportunities. Each youth is connected to a live coach, strategies, and resources individually tailored to empower that specific youth towards the healthy navigation of their life, behaviors, and goals.
 
This app will help improve youth's grades, behaviors, engagement level, attendance, and overall well-being. It also has the potential to give our schools the impact they want to see on academic performance, attendance, and discipline data, along with critical student-to-staff relationships and overall school culture. If you want something that walks alongside your youth as they navigate school and life, BeMapt is that solution.

 
Help us fund the beta-testing of our app. We need $90,000 to finish beta-testing our app in the next few months. You will be a part of developing technology that empowers students to build social and emotional skills and increase their network of supports that will serve them well as they transition into the workforce. It develops their grit, agency, and other intangibles that will make them future successful professionals and community members.

 We are working with a group of scientists and experts to ensure that this beta-test will yield the impact we need on our youth's growth. In collaboration with these experts, we are bringing the best of psychology, behavior change, resource navigation, design-thinking, and growth into the palm of our youth.
 
RTEAZ is a type 1 supporting organization of our nonprofit organization, Higher Ground a Resource Center. Our mission is to empower one life at a time to REACH, TRANSFORM and ELEVATE their community through love and building character. Learn more about our organization on our website www.higherground.me