🎉Meet our 2025 Digital Thriving Fellows! From reimagining empathy online to blending Pan-African community concepts with digital life, four bold projects share one goal: helping youth thrive in a tech-filled world. ✨ Learn more 👉 digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/fellows/

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This week in Three for Thriving:

📱 Addictive screen use = real mental health risks
🤖 AI in therapy: helpful, harmful, or both?
📵 Checking in on LA's phone ban
🎤 Stories with youth voices on AI, misinformation & modern romance

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This week’s Three for Thriving unpacks:

📱🔄 ❤️‍🩹 New study links screen time + emotional struggles in kids
🎓 OpenAI wants “AI-native” campuses
🤔 Teens want to use AI ethically—but need clearer guardrails

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#youthmentalhealth

From Hollywood to TikTok, this week’s Three for Thriving unpacks shifting stories of adolescence, young people's growing reliance on AI “therapy,” and career pressure.

And #ICYMI: our Youth Insights Memo on #genAI.

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#youthmentalhealth

Teens aren’t waiting for adults to catch up with #GenAI.

Our new memo features 10 real-time youth insights—from pressure to cheat, to seeking emotional support, to styling outfits with AI.

Tech isn’t slowing down, and our understanding can’t either.
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The latest Three for Thriving:

🖊️ Blue books return to colleges
🚨 Congress called out on #youthmentalhealth
🤖 Stanford on designing AI for humans

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This week’s Three for Thriving is full of signals—and shifts:

📉 UCSF links social media to rising depression
📵 Parents turn to alt devices
🤖 AI tools deepen classroom trust gaps

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This week in Three for Thriving:
🛡️ Kids Online Safety Act regains momentum
🎓 Rethinking school for an AI future
🧠 Media literacy with empathy

Plus bonus stories centered on youth voice!

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This week in Three for Thriving:

🤖 AI + loneliness
🎓 AI + academic integrity
📱 Teens, mental health + social media
🌟 Emily Weinstein & Sadie Sutton on supporting teens @nbcnews.com

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New Three for Thriving newsletter is out! It features stories on:

🤖 AI companions & teen safety
🏫 Mental health funding cuts
📉 Global dip in young adult well-being

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#YouthWellbeing #DigitalThriving

Teens + tech headlines are everywhere. But which ones are shaping the conversation? Introducing: Three for Thriving—a weekly roundup of news shaping youth well-being and tech.

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💜 Let’s make sense of this moment—together.
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#Teachers are tired of playing defense with tech in the classroom. That's why we're introducing our new course, Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-being, to help educators move from tech defense to empowering action.

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Hi! We're new here👋. If you're new to our work, our 2024 Impact Report is a great place to start. We’re on a mission to help youth thrive in a tech-filled world—and to shape more critically optimistic conversations on teens + tech.

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