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Our Thrive Model in the simplest form posits that thriving cannot be achieved without practices that build virtuous habits and identity. Our goal is to convert our research into tools to promote thriving, put those tools into the hands of those who care for youth, and measure the impact of those tools on the youth thriving. From videos to conversation guides, all our resources are produced from the research of the Thrive Center.
Articles
Dr. King offers 6 tips on how we can manage our emotions when we face moments of loss, grief, and pain.
Dr. King interviews an artificial intelligence expert on the pitfalls and potentials of emerging technologies.
Here are 3 tips on how technology can serve as a source for thriving and transformation.
Learn about the health challenges DACA recipients often face and what we can do to support them.
Create a value-driven community that supports and helps youth thrive with these 9 principles.
Dr. Houltberg highlights ways caring adults can help youth develop a purpose-based identity in sports.
Dr. King shares the importance of helping youth find the right coordinates that lead to purpose.
Here are two important ways parents can play an integral role in youth sports.
A Thrive student researcher witnesses how service (e.g., building homes for others) can cultivate virtues in athletes.
A Thrive Scholars Fellow reflects how serving others (e.g., home building) can foster purpose in athletes.
Guides & Tip Sheets
A 5-step process to finding agility.
8 tips to help fulfill our basic needs and thrive through extended stress.
4 mindfulness practices to help parents become more engaged and less stressed with teens.
3-step exercise to help you explore your connection to meaning and purpose.
A list of tips to enable you and others to thrive during COVID-19.
Dr. King shares 4 core spiritual practices to help nurture spiritual health.
Conversation starters to help youth succeed academically.
4 daily practices to cultivate and experience true joy.
5 parenting practices to help foster emotion regulation in youth.
3 dimensions of religion and spirituality that promote youth thriving.
Podcasts
A DACA recipient and her mentors reflect on her journey under DACA policy.
Dr. King reflects on community, spiritual transformation, and growth as sources for thriving.
Dr. Houltberg discusses performance-based-identity and working with elite athletes.
Dr. King reflects on purpose, spirituality, and social connection as assets for overcoming failure.
Dr. Rojas-Flores speaks on the mental health effects of forced parent-child separation in kids.
Dr. Houltberg explains the impact performance and success have on overall well-being.
Dr. Houltberg defines thriving and shares the key ways anyone can live a flourishing and purposeful life.
Dr. Houltberg shares lessons young athletes can learn from Michael Phelp's rehab trip.
Videos
Experts share ways the church can address kids' spiritual and mental health needs during COVID-19.
Our moderators talk about the complexity of the DACA ruling and moving forward.
Our moderators process what the DACA ruling means for our community.
Our moderators point to the importance of embracing creativity and spirituality.
Our moderators talk about building community and healthy relationships.
Our moderators emphasize taking care of our health and letting go of survivor’s guilt.
Dr. Rojas-Flores and Ramirez introduce our mental health toolkit in the first DACA Thriving Tuesday.
Panelists discuss the impact of our media consumption on spirituality.
A Thrive Scholar explores how technology advances youth’s spiritual lives and virtues.
Experts consider the role of patience in positive youth development.