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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, founded in 1999, is a minority-owned small business dedicated to serving children, youth, and families through a wide range of professional services. Originally established through federal contracts with the U.S. Office of Minority Health Resource Center and the U.S. National Library of Medicine, LIFE 20/20 provides strategic consultation that improves education and mental health outcomes via teaching, learning, professional development, and training.
Additionally, we offer specialized expertise in:
Research and evaluation design
Management consulting
Professional development and training
Continuing education courses
With a deep commitment to equity, cultural relevance, and measurable impact, we continue to support agencies, institutions, school districts, schools, and places were children, youth, families, and communities in building healthier, more resilient futures.
Our expertise is grounded in understanding the social determinants of health, unpacking the reasons why we behave the way we do, and encouraging hat embracing what motivates us to live well. We also specialize in helping clients harness the power of the arts in the form of words, sound recordings, and images to drive measurable improvements in health, education, social and emotional outcomes.
We emphasize:
Reducing mental health stigma
Integrating the creative and expressive arts into education
Expanding access to culturally relevant, responsive therapy
Professional development and training to teach life literacy
Music and media mindfulness, resilience and well-being
We blend creative self-expression with education and clinical insight and best practices in the delivery of culturally-relevant, services that support children, youth, and families during school and beyond.
We address the cognitive, behavioral, emotional, moral, and social development of children and youth. We build upon the evidence that our approach to teaching, learning, and enrichment is well-suited for teaching, learning, and therapeutic purposes. We intentionally and purposefully align our work with the much needed emphasis on health, hope, and healing that is needed in times like these.
Our events, products, and professional services help our clients deconstruct measurably reduce dis-ease at the individual and community levels, while also addressing messages in music.
We also address:
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.
The need for common decency and civility.
Social learning, media cultivation, and other critical theories 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 delivered through a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)—a framework that addresses the full continuum of student needs. MTSS enables educators, clinicians, and youth-serving professionals across school, clinical, and community settings to support the academic, social, and emotional development of young people in a coordinated, responsive way.
Our evidence-based approaches equip practitioners with strategies to effectively engage youth for teaching, learning, and therapeutic purposes. By integrating the arts—especially through music, media, and cultural expression—we enhance engagement and connection. This integration bridges history, culture, technology, and lifestyle, creating more meaningful learning experiences and promoting mental wellness through culturally relevant, emotionally resonant content.
product design/Licensing
Our products are intentionally designed to integrate history, culture, and lifestyle, recognizing that these elements are essential for engaging young people in ways that are culturally relevant, culturally affirming, and developmentally appropriate. Research supports that this approach equips clinicians, educators, and practitioners with effective tools to foster deeper connections and more meaningful learning experiences.
We apply this philosophy across curriculum design, instruction, enrichment activities, and therapeutic counseling, leading to measurable improvements in engagement, competencies, among youth. All of our courses, programs, and products are customized and licensed for use providing trained professionals with practical, youth- and family-centered tools to deliver services that are both impactful and accessible.
PROGRAM DESIGN/IMPLEMENTATION
Our signature programs are delivered by trained, licensed providers in both formal and informal learning environments. This includes schools, community centers, and clinical settings. We integrate best practices and evidence-based approaches to engage children, youth, and families with music and media mindfulness. Our signature approach uses popular youth music and media to prompt critical thinking, creative expression, and self-reflection on the recurring themes and messages that shape perception during childhood and adolescence.
By focusing on specific aspects of music and media entertainment, we highlight the benefits of being health and media literate. This culturally responsive framework not only measurably improves engagement but also supports healthier, more informed decision-making. We believe all children, youth and families should be offered health, hope, and healing.
“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.”