Provides scientifically validated surveys and data-driven insights to assess and improve student and faculty well-being in schools. By identifying mental health challenges and modifiable factors like school climate and relationships, it delivers actionable recommendations and benchmarks to help educational institutions prioritize interventions and foster resilience.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Schools often lack comprehensive, scientifically-backed methods to accurately assess the mental health and well-being of their students and faculty. Without reliable data on factors like school climate, relationships, and mental health challenges, it's difficult for educational institutions to effectively prioritize interventions and allocate resources to foster resilience.
Solution
Authentic Connections provides scientifically validated surveys and data analytics to evaluate and improve student and faculty well-being within educational environments. Their surveys assess mental health indicators alongside modifiable aspects of school and community life. The platform delivers customized reports that highlight key priorities, demographic breakdowns, and benchmark comparisons against similar institutions. These insights enable schools to identify struggling groups, understand their performance relative to peers, and implement targeted interventions based on actionable findings and expert recommendations.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes K-12 schools, independent schools, boarding schools, and school districts seeking to improve the well-being of their students, faculty, and parents.
Features
- Student Resilience Survey: Assesses mental health (anxiety, depression, substance use) and modifiable aspects of student life (learning efficacy, relationships).
- High Achieving Schools Survey: Provides a comprehensive assessment of student life, including mental health, diversity, equity, inclusion, parent/peer relationships, and school climate.
- Faculty Resilience Survey: Mirrors student surveys to assess faculty mental health (burnout, stress) and factors relevant to teaching climate (workload, connectedness).
- Parent Resilience Survey: Gathers insights into parent satisfaction, engagement, and well-being, focusing on school life aspects, community connections, and communication.
- Customized priority lists: Recommends focus areas to help schools prioritize interventions.
- Demographic breakdowns: Dashboards display results by demographic variables to identify struggling groups.
- Benchmark capabilities: Compares results to national, regional, and public/private school averages.
- Actionable findings: Distilled insights from open-ended questions provide clear next steps.
- Research presentations: Shares findings and recommendations tailored for specific audiences.