We are a diverse team of interdisciplinary scientists and behavioral health experts who collaborate to make your offerings more youth-centered, impactful, efficacious, and scalable.
We are designers, strategists, and researchers who co-create with and for young people to make affirming mental health solutions—especially in historically underserved communities.
Studio Services
Our team of interdisciplinary scientists and behavioral health experts is skilled in intervention ideation, youth co-creation, prototyping, behavioral science, and user testing. We conduct research within communities to help advance impact, adapt offerings, and improve equitable health outcomes.
We’re taking collaboration to the next level and reshaping power dynamics with a youth-led cohort of experts who lend their voices across partner engagements–from product feedback to content creation, design research, and more–young people co-create the future.
Advisory Services
We collaborate with partners in a variety of ways to help improve offerings that are equitable, efficacious, and viable. From capacity-building with a human-centered approach to designing thinking and prototyping digital offerings to thought partnership, each engagement is bespoke.
Studio Projects
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LGBTQ+ Mental Health
Together we can shape a future where LGBTQ+ youth can thrive. Dive into our process and explore the data behind the co-creation, launch, and early impact metrics of imi guide.
Elevating Youth Voices to Evolve Hazel HEART™
In partnership with Hazel HealthOver the course of two weeks, Hazel Health worked with the Hopelab Studio team to gather insights from young people to inform and improve the product design of Hazel HEART™.
Pilot Randomized Control Trial on imi
In partnership with Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative at the University of PennsylvaniaRead the results of a randomized control trial conducted on imi, a free, mental health web app, designed to help LGBTQ+ youth cope with stress.
imi
In partnership with CenterLinkimi supports and helps LGBTQ+ teens explore and affirm their identity and learn practical ways to cope with sexual and gender minority stress in ways that are helpful, relevant, inclusive, and joyful.
Quit the Hit
In partnership with Rescue AgencyA 30-day intervention that teaches young people how to quit vaping through group chats on Instagram.