Contentment Foundation

The Contentment Foundation offers mental health and wellbeing programming for schools, families, and organizations around the world. We provide digital technologies and programs for children from Pre-K through High School, and professional development training for all stakeholders in the school ecosystem. Our evidence-based approach to wellbeing also extends into the home, where we offer dedicated support to promote family wellbeing. We track and measure the impact of our work in every school that uses our program, and we publish scientific studies on the science of wellbeing in schools.

After four years of testing, refining, and perfecting our approaches to whole-school wellbeing, we formally came out of stealth mode on January 15, 2019 and launched our finalized digital platform to the world. The Four Pillars of Wellbeing online digital platform is a multi-component online system for implementing school wellbeing across all stakeholders in the educational system. It is comprised of a professional development platform with videos, audios, and workbooks for staff and educators. We also released our Four Pillars of Wellbeing student curriculum with six different developmental age groups (Infant, toddler, 3-4, K-2, 3-5, 6-8th grade). Lastly, we launched our Wellbeing Analytics system, so that schools can track, measure, and reinforce performance of the skills across everyone who uses the program. The Four Pillars platform launched in ten schools, where we were able to measurably impact the wellbeing of around 10,000 students, teachers, and staff members. In tandem with the digital platform, we also launched our Rollout Representative support ecosystem, which provides human-level support to all schools who implement the Four Pillars of Wellbeing. The Rollout Representatives are comprised of veteran educators who have rolled out our work in their schools, and now feel passionate about helping other schools do the same. We supported ten schools in building their Wellbeing Teams, which are the stakeholders in each school most passionate about making the program a success, and they directly work with the Rollout Representatives. We helped them build custom rollout strategies for their schools, get onboarded into the platform, and we mediated successful launches in all ten schools. One year later, we have had 100% retention rates across our year 1 schools, and we have seen 80% average completion rates of our materials. This high implementation rate along with the positive wellbeing metrics and enthusiastic feedback have helped us conclude that we have landed on the right strategy to scale in 2020 and beyond. We are confident that our work has, indeed, improved the lives of approximately 10,000 people in 2019, and we aim to double this the following year.