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When curaJOY first started and began designing our program to improve all family members’ emotional wellness, we expected to mostly hear from parents concerned about their kids’ emotional wellness and social-emotional development. But it was youths—tweens, and teens, around the world who sought us out, asking for help to become happier and make more friends.

Everyone deserves someone who’s on their side

When curaJOY first started, we expected to hear mostly from parents concerned about their kids’ emotional wellness and social-emotional development. To our surprise, it was kids and teens around the world who sought us out, asking for help to become happier, manage stress, and make more friends.

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When kids talk, we listen

In fall 2022, curaJOY interviewed more than 1,500 families in the United States and East Asia. Thousands of kids shared their struggles with bullying, peer pressure, friendships and more.

9 out of 10

kids surveyed wished their parents cared more about their emotional well-being

50%

of kids surveyed believe they would benefit from counseling or other types of support, but cited parents’ attitudes as main barriers to getting help

Barriers to
receiving help

Top issues
that hurt kids’
emotional
wellness

Of course my parents didn’t tend to our emotional health growing up. They seldom care for their own emotional health! In that generation, most of the men just drink their sorrows away.

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I WISH MY PARENTS HAD PAID ATTENTION TO NOTICE THAT I WAS BEEN BODY SHAMED. Or maybe they did, but just didn’t care or didn’t think it was important.

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My parents worked alot, never supported my activities. Didn’t do anything to build my confidence, self esteem, so from that I learned the type of parent I wanted to be.

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I’ve struggled with ADHD my entire life and it definitely affected my mental health growing up. I always felt very different from my peers and “annoying” to my friends and family. This has led to feeling like a burden and constantly apologizing as an adult (among other issues). It’s so easy to think life is just that hard for everyone but that is so often not the case. If my learning disability was addressed when

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TAKING CARE OF OUR YOUTH SECURES EVERYONE'S FUTURES

curaJOY creates a one-stop behavioral support program, Quest Depot, to serve as a safety net for youth who could otherwise only depend on their caretakers to recognize and accept their distress.

thoughts of suicided up 60%

Accordingly to the latest CDC research finding, more than 1 in 3 teenagers seriously considered suicide, in a continuing pattern of increase.

57% of teen girls persistently sad, hopeless

Teenage girls are emotionally distressed at a historic high, twice as much as teen boys. 1 in 5 experienced sexual violence just in the last year.

1 IN 5 LGBTQ teens ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

More than 52% of LGBTQ kids suffer from poor mental health. This affects their physical wellbeing and educational outcomes.

More than half suffered emotional abuse

Adult stress during COVID seeped down to children who do not deserve yelling, put-downs, neglect, and beatings.

OUR APPROACH

OUR STORY

Quest Depot

Support Youth's social and emotional wellness

Help children and teens improve their mental health

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