Thriving Youth Wellness is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing whole-person, integrative health coaching and well-being educational support for youth, their families and the providers that serve them. The organization is committed to building resiliency with a focus on total health and wellness.

Mission: To provide affordable health and well-being individual and group coaching, educational support tools for youth and their families, and a collaborative care model with the providers who serve them as well as a dedication to adding to the body of knowledge about virtual and potentially AI generated health coaching and its effectiveness with youth.

Vision: At this time, health and well-being coaching is not affordable for most families.  There is a body of scientific research that supports health and well-being coaching as an effective tool for management of chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity (“Health Coaching is Effective: Should You Try it?”, Peter Grinspoon, MD), and also as a tool that impacts a patient’s quality of life and overall well-being. (Why you need a Wellness Coach: The Perspective of an Internal Medicine Doctor, Amna Shabbir).  Coaching may also serve as a tool for the prevention of disease and an increase in healthspan (Outlive, Dr. Peter Attia). However, at this time,  both private and public (Medicare/Medicaid) do not provide consistent, adequate financial reimbursement for health coaching services.  The National Board of Health and Well-being coaches has and is continuing to try to change this.  In the meantime, health coaching is mostly a private fee for service privilege. Thriving Youth Wellness is a 501(c)(3) organization whereby sponsors and donors may fund the opportunity for more youth and their families to receive this valuable and supportive assistance.

What is Health Coaching? : Health and Well-being coaching takes an integrative, whole-person approach to healthcare. Patients, either individually or in partnership with their doctor/healthcare team, identify an area of their health and well-being they desire to change. Healthcare coaches partner with the patient to help motivate, design, and develop a plan for this change. Healthcare coaching uses the Illness-Wellness Continuum and other integrative assessment tools to help patients identify where they are with their health and where they wish to be.  Healthcare coaches do not diagnose, prescribe medications, or offer counseling or therapy.  They work with their patients and, if appropriate, with the patient’s healthcare team.  Educational resources from vetted sources are provided when asked for by the patient and/or their families.  There is research to suggest young people are forgoing and ignoring well-known lifestyle changes (Podcast: Laurie Santos and Vivek Murthy).Thriving Youth Wellness wants to offer youth and their families a chance to learn and establish healthy habits and behaviors before and/or at the beginning of any lifestyle-related disease and/or chronic condition. We want to help youth thrive!