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“If youth aren’t learning the way that we teach, we need to teach the way they learn and that goes for what they’re learning.”
LIFE 20/20 LLC was founded in 1999 to offer professional services services for children, youth, and families. As a minority owned, small business, we have evolved and expanded beyond our original federal government contracts with the U.S. Office of Minority Health Resource Center, and the U.S. National Library of Medicine. In addition to our education, enrichment, and therapeutic offerings, we provide technical assistance in research and evaluation design, management consulting, professional development training, and offer continuing education courses.
Our expertise is the nexus between addressing social determinants of health and behavioral/mental health. Our niche is assisting our clients leverage the benefits of the arts, especially music and media, toward the goal of measurably improving education and health outcomes. We place special emphasis on mental health outcomes that are linked to reducing stigma, integrating the arts in education, increasing access to culturally-relevant, responsive therapy, and training providers in teaching life literacy skills.
Our expertise is in re-imagining health and education for young people and their parents. This is the iGeneration, and we have deploy evidence-based approaches that engage audiences, constituents, students, and community members. We also conduct training, professional development and other services to improve healthy development of children, youth, and families. Our specialty is deploying the judicious use of information, news, and media entertainment to promote health and literacy.
We address the cognitive, behavioral, emotional, moral, and social development of children, youth, and their families by building upon evidence that our approach to teaching, learning, and enrichment is well-suited for therapeutic purposes, especially when aligned to promote health, hope, and healing in school or community settings. We also believe it is important for young people to be able to “read” between the lines and “see” the big picture. Healthy skepticism, especially about the information and news industry and media entertainment is a good thing, but everything you see and read is not “fake news”.
Our events, products, and professional services help our clients measurably reduce dis-ease at the individual and community levels, while also addressing:
Social and emotional learning and wellbeing.
National and state-adopted standards of learning in ELA, Health, Technical Education, Social Studies/History, and Visual and Performing Arts/Media Arts.
Common decency and civility standards.
Critical theories about social learning and media cultivation.
Other critical theories and best practices in the fields of adolescent mental health, developmental psychology, and education.
Practice Areas
Behavioral/Social/Emotional WEllness
Mental and behavioral health services are most effective when provided through a multitiered system of supports (MTSS). MTSS encompasses the continuum of need, enabling school personnel and those who support young people in clinical and community settings to address their academic, social, and emotional needs. Educators, clinicians, and youth-serving practitioners receive training in the use of our evidence-based approaches to engaging youth for teaching, learning, and therapeutic purposes. Integrating the arts increases the potential for engaged teaching and learning by integrating history and culture with technology and lifestyle.
product design/Licensing
Our products are designed to integrate key elements of history, culture, and lifestyle. Research indicates that incorporating these elements gives clinicians, educators, and practitioners the tools to engage young people in ways that are culturally-relevant, culturally-affirming, and developmentally appropriate. Our approach to curriculum, instruction, enrichment, and therapeutic counseling leads to measurable improvements in engaged teaching and learning, with emphasis on building young people’s confidence and competencies. We customize and license courses, programs and other products, giving those trained the tools to deliver youth and family-friendly services.
PROGRAM DESIGN/IMPLEMENTATION
Our signature programs are typically implemented by trained, licensed providers who deliver instruction and programming in formal and informal learning spaces, including in school and community settings. Our evidence-based approaches to engage young people uses select features of popular music and media to prompt critical thinking, creative expression, and self-reflection about recurring themes and messages that trigger the senses, especially during childhood and adolescence. By addressing select attributes in music and media, we improve health and media literacy, focusing on the content and context that shapes young people’s attitudes, beliefs, and choices (ABCs).
“Education without purpose is meaningless, pointless, and unfulfilling. Purpose gives intelligence a reason for being. The education of people must be based on the problems that they have to solve.”