Every generation inherits the world we help shape for them. A common truth keeps emerging to inspire us all: when youth in our world thrive, we all thrive. So the question facing families, educators, and community leaders today is simple but urgent: What kind of world are we preparing children to lead? Across the country, there is a growing recognition that youth well-being is not just a family issue or a school issue—it’s a community imperative. As highlighted by Youth Today

Unmanaged screen time can pose real risks to children’s emotional, cognitive, and social well-being. As screens continue to get even more embedded in daily life, parents, educators, and health professionals face growing alarm about how digital devices affect children’s development. While technology offers undeniable benefits—from educational content to ways to connect with friends—the evidence shows that excessive, unmanaged screen time can pose real risks to children’s emoti

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Executive Summary Parenting has radically transformed over the past three decades—a shift with deep repercussions for today’s students. Driven by rising anxieties, the urge to overprotect, and later, the digital revolution, children’s worlds have grown increasingly supervised and screen-based, leaving them less resilient, less outdoors, and more mentally distressed than any generation in modern history [1] [2] [3] [4] . Schools now lie at the center of the solution, uniquely