
Programs built around decisions, relationships, responsibility, and the future.
Life that Counts offers curriculum, mentoring support, training, assemblies, family programs, and ongoing coaching. We begin by learning who you want to serve, what you hope to strengthen, and what support is already in place.
Available for consultation or implementation

Available for Consultation or Implementation
BELIEVE
BELIEVE is a structured, adult-facilitated curriculum that helps young people think carefully about decisions, relationships, personal responsibility, future goals, and the people they hope to become.

Available for Consultation or Implementation
Peer Mentoring
Peer Mentoring helps schools build supervised peer or cross-age mentoring relationships with clear selection, preparation, boundaries, adult oversight, and follow-up.

Available for Consultation or Implementation
HERO Training
HERO Training helps young people notice when a peer may need help, respond with care, and involve a trusted adult. It builds responsible help-seeking; it does not train students as counselors or crisis responders.

Available for Consultation or Implementation
Success Sequence
Success Sequence is a focused life-planning framework. BELIEVE is the broader curriculum in which the framework may also be discussed.

Available for Consultation or Implementation
Educator Professional Development
Professional learning that helps educators understand student decision-making, strengthen trusted relationships, and plan practical next steps.

Available for Consultation or Implementation
School Assemblies
Life That Counts assemblies use honest stories, energy, and practical ideas to help students connect today’s choices with the future they want to build.

Available for Consultation or Implementation
Parent & Caregiver Programs
Parents and caregivers play a central role in helping young people think through important decisions.

Current Ongoing Work
Intensive Men’s Mentoring
This is current relationship-based mentoring work, not a publicly advertised enrollment program.

Current Ongoing Work
Online Leadership & Coaching Forums
Ongoing facilitated online spaces supporting leadership, reflection, accountability, and practical coaching.
Choose the support that matches your goals.
Choose the support that matches your goals by starting with three practical questions.
1. What should people strengthen?
What do you want young people or adults to understand, practice, or strengthen?
2. Who should be involved?
Who should be involved—students, staff, families, mentors, or community partners?
3. What support is available?
What time, staff support, and follow-up can the school or partner provide?
Ideas that guide planning
Positive youth development, school connectedness, and positive peer culture can inform planning. These are guiding ideas, not separate Life that Counts programs.
Related public context: Youth.gov Positive Youth Development · CDC School Connectedness
Questions schools and partners often ask
Which program should we begin with? We start with your goals, the people involved, and the support already available. Can programs work together? Sometimes, when roles and timing are clear. How are families informed? Communication expectations are agreed before a program begins. How is funding handled? A consultation can consider school funds, grants, sponsorships, or institutional support.
Not sure where to begin?
Tell us what your school or community is seeing. We will help you determine whether we can help and what next step makes sense.
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