For Families
For the organizations families turn to first.
United Way affiliates, foster care agencies, and community programs use Sharpen® Family to put parenting and mental wellness resources directly into caregivers' hands, through your own branded app, backed by data that shows what's working.
What Your Organization Delivers
Your brand. Your families. Our platform.
Sharpen® Family deploys as your organization's own branded experience, so families connect with a name they already trust.
Program 01
Sharpen® MHL for Parents & Caregivers
A mental health literacy course built for the adults raising young people: understanding what kids are facing, language for hard conversations, and strategies for building resilience at home.
The flagship course
Program 02
Foster Care & Kinship Resources
Resources built for foster, kinship, and adoptive families navigating trauma-informed parenting, with mental health literacy training studied with foster parents and published in a peer-reviewed journal.
For foster & kinship families
Program 03
Peer Stories & Support Pathways
Peer documentary stories families can watch together, paired with connection pathways that link caregivers to local and regional support, including crisis response.
For every family
Peer-Reviewed
Studied with the families who need it most.
Foster Parents
mHealth mental health literacy training for foster parents
A published study of Sharpen® mental health literacy training with foster parents, the caregivers navigating some of the most complex parenting circumstances there are.
Biber, D. (2023). Trends in Psychology. doi.org/10.1007/s43076-023-00348-x
Community Deployment
The sharpenFAMILY partnership
United Way of the Piedmont delivers foster care and parenting resources to families across its community partners through its branded app, sharpenFAMILY, using engagement data to inform decision-making.
Live deployment · Spartanburg, South Carolina
The Model
Humanizing mental health through peer stories
Every Sharpen® program is built on documentary stories of strength and resilience, giving families a common, non-judgmental language for conversations about mental wellbeing.
The approach behind every toolkit
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We have been working with all of our community partners to get foster care and parenting resources to our families through our branded app, sharpenFAMILY. This is a game-changer for any of us who seek to find more ways to use data to inform decision-making and improve our community impact.
Paige Stephenson
President & CEO, United Way of the Piedmont
Are you a parent?
Take the course for your own family.
The Sharpen® MHL for Parents course is available directly to families. Purchase the course and start building mental health literacy at home today.
Buy the course →Customization available
Tell us about the families you serve. Let's strategize options!
From a single parenting program to a branded app for your whole community, a short conversation is all it takes to map the right starting point.