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curaJOY builds tools to improve social and behavioral wellbeing with young people, parents, educators, and clinicians. Our app, MyCuraJOY, connects everyday incidents with practical steps that helps.

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Thriving takes more than a good diet, education and weekly therapy.

curaJOY provides effective and continuous wellness support for diverse families, combining behavioral healthcare, education and AI to foster growth and genuine relationships because families’ wellness
is interconnected.

Think more positively
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Better relationships
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Decrease anxiety and stress
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Everyone sees a piece.
Let’s connect the dots.

A young person feels exhausted. A parent sees unfinished homework. A teacher notices a disruptive classroom. Each viewpoint matters. MyCuraJOY brings more context to the next step, with each person choosing what to share.

You can also start with a goal: confidence, communication, or a routine you want to build.

Challenges for Kids
Today’s youth are navigating a social emotional crisis of historic proportions. Two in five high schoolers report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Our increasingly digital world adds another layer of pressure. Teens who spend over three hours a day on social media double their risk of depression and anxiety. This looks like closed doors, constant worry, and the feeling that you’re losing the child you know.
The Weight on Parents
You are not alone in feeling this way. Parental burnout is a real and growing crisis.  Parents experience significant levels of stress at a rate more than double that of other adults. Juggling work, finances, and your child’s well-being in an always-on world can feel isolating and exhausting. It’s an invisible weight that makes the most important job in the world feel impossible.   
Our Blueprint for a Better System
Built for and by the Community

As a nonprofit, our mission is to break down barriers. We co-create our solutions with the families, educators, and clinicians we serve, ensuring our tools are culturally responsive and accessible to all.  

Guidance You Can Trust

Our methods are designed by leading clinicians and researchers. We digitize proven, evidence-based therapies like Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Somatic Psychotherapy to provide support that is both data-centric and effective.

Support for the Whole Family

We know that a child's well-being is connected to the entire family'. Our approach engages everyone, identifying stressful interaction patterns, then building healthier relationships for lasting change.   

Personalized, on-going coaching

Every family is unique. Our platform uses clinician-supervised AI and engaging, gamified activities to create a personalized path that fits your life, keeps your child engaged, and gives you agency over your family's wellness journey.  

Boost self-esteem
Social and emotional wellness—how we feel about ourselves, interact with others, and overcome obstacles—is fundamental to human thriving.
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Improve communication skills
Soft skills include communication, problem-solving, stress management, teamwork, impulse control and resilience.
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Perform better at school or work
The majority of educators and Fortune 500 execs consider soft skills to be equal to or more crucial for success than technical skills.
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Cross-Sector and Community-Built

We improve family emotional wellness globally by integrating the latest technological advancements, behavioral healthcare, education, and gaming, working to solve major social and mental health-related problems jointly with our communities and 
cross-sector collaborations. This is a purpose too important to be for-profit.

"What I love most about curaJOY is its community and staff. They push me, they put me to MyCuraJOY, and they put me to Javascript and even gifted me with training for additional certifications.
Fidele C.
Software Developer
curaJOY gave us a new language to talk to each other. It didn't just help my son; it helped our whole family heal.
Maria S.
Parent
I had a clipboard with every child's data sheet, and 4 or 5 clickers hanging hanging around my neck, trying to keep up with each child, it was hard. MyCuraJOY makes life a lot easier and I get all the data I need, just easier and quicker.
Joanna B.
Registered Behavior Technician
The machine-learning algorithms curaJOY utilizes can identify effective interventions with remarkable accuracy, saving providers time and maximizing their impact.
Lisa P.
School Psycholgist

Nonprofit because our social emotional wellness and education are worth the investment.

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Emotional Wellness
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How curaJOY started

The Toll of Continuous (and Ineffective) Therapy on a Family For over five years, behavior therapists, counselors, and social workers came into our home 3

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Emotional wellness is the foundation of a thriving life.  Your donation helps sustain our work so that generational trauma, suicide, school drop out and substance abuse can be prevented. 

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