Smiling Mind is a web and app-based meditation program for young people. It has been developed by a team of psychologists and uses mindfulness to boost calmness, contentment, and clarity. Mindfulness meditation helps manage stress, resilience, anxiety, depression, and improve general health and wellbeing.
Learn about research involving Smiling Mind here.
Khan Academy is an educational organization with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. Khan Academy is on a mission to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy Kids is an adaptive educational game for children ages 2-8. Through these fun and interactive games, children can succeed in many educational topics, such as math, reading, and writing, as well as social-emotional learning. Recent research supports that Khan Academy Kids can boost pre-literacy skills.
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Healthy Minds Program is an app-based program that trains your mind for a happier, healthier life. Through meditation and podcast-style lessons, it helps develop skills to gain focus, reduce stress, and maintain positive social connections. It has been developed by neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidon and his team at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin- Madison & Healthy Minds Innovations.
The Healthy Minds Program is backed by research.
Duolingo is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users. The company’s mission is to make education free, fun, and accessible to all. Duolingo is designed like a game and is scientifically proven to be very effective. Learning with Duolingo is fun and addictive.
Every body is different, so why treat them all the same? movr focuses on self-assessments to give you a personalized approach to exercise in just a few steps:
1. You do a movement assessment in the movr app.
2. You get daily movements that can be done in just 5 minutes.
3. movr’s science-based exercise prescription helps improve your strength and flexibility.
Feel better in your body, every single day!
Prodigy is a free, adaptive math game that integrates common-core math (grades 1-8) into a fantasy-style game that students love playing. Prodigy is designed to engage students using adaptive technology to cater to each individual. The app’s personalized approach identifies gaps in students’ understanding and works with them by pulling them back to prerequisite skills and then scaffolding them forward through more difficult concepts. And as a web-based game, Prodigy can be accessed at school and at home on virtually any device.
MentorHub is partnering with the Prodigy: Kids Math Game app to provide our mentees with access to grades 1-8 math content through this fun and educational game that is backed by research.
MindTrails is an online intervention designed for individuals struggling with anxiety. During the program, users learn about anxious thinking and how thinking in new ways can help users feel better. When used once a week for five weeks, users build new skills for thinking about potentially anxiety-provoking situations in new and more flexible ways. When users apply their new thinking skills to their own lives, these flexible thinking patterns can lead to reduced feelings of anxiety in day-to-day life.
MindTrails is currently available for users 18+ and is available for free on computer and mobile browsers. A teen version is currently being developed specifically for MentorHub users!
MindTrails was developed by a team of psychologists and engineers at the University of Virginia. The team is always seeking to make improvements guided by science, so there are always research studies going on on the MindTrails website.
Click here to learn more about the research behind MindTrails.
Khan Academy is an educational organization with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. Khan Academy is on a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Their interactive practice problems, articles, and videos help students succeed in math, biology, chemistry, physics, history, economics, finance, grammar, and many other topics. It provides teachers with data on how their students are doing so they can identify gaps in learning and provide tailored instruction.
Khan Academy is backed by research.
Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation through its app and online content offerings. We believe that mindfulness should encompass every aspect of life, not just when you’re sitting to meditate. We offer inspiration, guidance, and support to living a mindful life in the pursuit of improving the health and happiness of the world.
Headspace is backed by research.
IntelliCare is a suite of apps, developed by Northwestern University’s Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, that work together to help people deal with common causes of stress, depression, and anxiety.
IntelliCare is backed by research.
Individual Intellicare apps included in the suite:
SuperBetter is a scientifically supported app that gamifies life—it’s designed to help users build resilience, strength, and motivation in the context of a variety of challenges (e.g., depression, stress, anxiety, healing from physical injury, recover from post-traumatic stress, finding a new job, grieving a loss, dealing with an academic/job setback, finishing a project, pursuing a goal, adopting a habit, improving a skill, etc.).
SuperBetter is backed by research.