Current Projects
iCON+
Improving the health and well-being of young people by providing education, goal-setting, and peer support through a tailored web app.
iCON+ is a life skills intervention which provides tailored information and resources to support well-being of young men across diverse regions of the United States. Youth are empowered to set and pursue self-determined goals related to health, education, career, and relationships. iCON+ supports youth in planning, troubleshooting, and achieving their goals with personalized educational content, a resource database which allows them to find supportive resources in their home community, and the ability to chat online with a trained peer mentor.

Goals
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Create tailored educational content on a broad set of life skills which can provide customized information to a diverse set of youth from diverse communities across the U.S.
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Test the effect of the web app on youths' beliefs and behaviors related to their health and goals.
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Examine how individual and regional characteristics impact iCON+'s usefulness.