For Community Organizations
Resiliency for the communities you serve.
Community organizations are often the first place people turn, long before a clinical setting. Sharpen® gives youth-serving programs, veteran-serving organizations, and family-serving nonprofits practical tools for mental health literacy, resilience, and connection to support.
Who We Work With
One platform.
Every kind of community.
Each implementation is shaped to the organization delivering it, through your own branded experience and content adapted to the people you serve.
Youth-Serving Organizations
Resilience programs for young people
After-school initiatives, mentoring programs, and city-wide prevention efforts use Sharpen® peer resiliency and mental health literacy programming to reach young people where they already gather.
Implementations include
HealthMPowers · VNS Health · EngageHeal
Veteran-Serving Organizations
Sharpen® Warrior for veterans & military families
Built with and for the veteran community: resilience modules around real peer stories, practical language for hard conversations, and crisis and referral pathways that respect military culture.
Implementations include
Guiding Reins · Upstate Warrior Solution
Family-Serving Nonprofits
Parenting & family resources, your brand
Nonprofits serving families deliver parenting, foster care, and mental wellness resources through their own branded app, with engagement data that shows community impact.
Implementations include
United Ways
Measured in the Field
Community implementations,
independently evaluated.
Out-of-School Time
Girls Empowering Movement, Georgia
College students trained in Sharpen® MHL led peer resiliency programming for adolescent girls in HealthMPowers' out-of-school-time initiative, evaluated with the RE-AIM framework.
Davis et al. (2025). Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 33, 1-9. doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.2025-0030
City-Wide Prevention
A 5 year suicide prevention program in New York
Young people participating in city-wide suicide prevention training experience Sharpen® peer resiliency programming as a self-discovered app, building protection against suicide and other risk factors.
Rios, I., Hussa-Farrell, R., Farrell, T., & Biber, D. (2025). Ongoing measurement of a 5 year suicide prevention program funded through NY Office of Mental Health.
The Model
Peer stories, adapted to your community
Every implementation is built on documentary stories of strength and resilience, giving your community a common, non-judgmental language for conversations about mental wellbeing.
The approach behind every toolkit
Customization available
Tell us about your community.
Let's strategize options!
From a single youth program to a city-wide initiative, a short conversation is all it takes to map the right starting point.