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Hopelab creates behavior-change tech to help teens and young adults live happier, healthier lives.
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Quit the Hit
Featured ProductA 30-day intervention that teaches young people how to quit vaping through group chats on Instagram.
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Nod offers higher education leaders a research-backed tool they can confidently share with students, knowing it addresses two critical threats to student mental health: loneliness and depression.
An award-winning chatbot designed to support mental well-being in young people during the challenging period after cancer treatment.
The Goal Mama app helps first-time moms better-set goals, track progress, and celebrate success.
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We work with young people to co-create interventions grounded in behavioral science and human-centered design, conducts rigorous testing, and distributes these solutions in collaboration with partners.
Insights
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Insight
How do we move on when fatal force against Black people has been normalized? How do we explain why Black people don’t get second chances and why video footage is vital to proving Black lives matter? How do we find resilience while enduring trauma?
Insight
When the visibility of transgender people is threatened, human rights are threatened. We must band together to prevent blatant discrimination and stand up for what is right. Let us be clear. Transgender rights matter. Transgender visibility matters.
Insight
There’s more than one story to tell when you’re coming of age, surrounded by social media, especially as a young queer person in the wake of a global pandemic.
Insight
For a lot of young people, mental health issues are a part of our story. This is the tale of how one Gen Zer leveraged TikTok to find resilience during the COVID pandemic.
Projects
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In partnership with an expert field of researchers, designers, and content creators, Hopelab is setting out to improve the physical and mental health of teens by designing technology to support their ability to quit vaping.
Project
Hopelab’s team of researchers and designers are building technologies to support the health and happiness of LGBTQ+ teens and young adults. We’re calling this project, milk.
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This capability will allow us the flexibility to support both for-profit and nonprofit teams dedicated to scaling social impact. The health challenges facing today’s young people are multidimensional, intersectional, and broad.
Project
A research and engagement workshop with Elevate and Hopelab to better articulate the MoMba maternal mental health app’s value proposition.
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Research
The present study explores barriers and facilitators experienced by public health nurses introducing a mobile health technology platform (Goal Mama) to the Nurse-Family Partnership home-visiting program.
Research
One year into the pandemic, a new survey reveals that teens and young adults are actively turning to online sources to cope with mental health.
Research
Read the results of the pilot randomized controlled trial on the nod smartphone app created to address loneliness among college students.
Research
This pilot randomized controlled trial examined the feasibility of delivering positive psychology skills via the Vivibot chatbot and its effects on key psychosocial well-being outcomes in young adults treated for cancer.