Life That Counts

Life that Counts

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The decisions young people make today shape the futures, families, and communities they will lead tomorrow.

Better decisions. Stronger futures. Healthier communities.

Youth mentoring, decision-making curricula, school programs, educator training, and family support.

Life that Counts helps young people make intentional, informed decisions that strengthen their futures, their relationships, their families, and the communities they will one day lead.

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Explore Our Programs

Our founder began working with young people in 1999. Life that Counts was established in 2012, incorporated in April 2016, and began full-time operations in July 2016. Its experience includes school, community, and federally supported youth initiatives.

Young adults walk and talk together outdoors.

Experienced leadership

Youth work beginning in 1999

Defined responsibilities

Leadership, program delivery, scheduling, and financial oversight are assigned and documented.

Built for schools

We plan with school partners, prepare the people involved, and review how each engagement was delivered.

Transparent evidence

Findings presented with their methods, sources, and limitations

HISTORICAL ALABAMA EVIDENCE

A notable 2019 Alabama pattern

ITMESA reported positive adjusted pre/post estimates for all four constructs in Life that Counts’ 2019 Alabama implementation. Knowledge, attitude, and skill were statistically significant as reported. Review the exact Alabama and Indiana estimates, methods, and study boundaries.

Historical adjusted pre/post evidence · ITMESA · 2019

Explore the Alabama–Indiana comparison

Four constructs · paired state estimates

Illustrative paired-bar motif; exact values and significance labels are on the evidence page.

Young people are already making decisions about the lives they want to build.

They are deciding who influences them, how they handle pressure, what they believe about relationships, whether education and work feel attainable, and what kind of families and communities they hope to create. Life that Counts gives young people clear information, practical tools, trusted relationships, and space to connect immediate choices with long-term goals.

Future

Connect today’s choices with education, work, relationships, and long-term opportunity.

Relationships

Practice respect, communication, boundaries, responsibility, and help-seeking.

Contribution

Build the habits to show up for families, workplaces, schools, and communities.

Programs built around decisions, relationships, and the future.

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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.

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Peer Mentoring

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

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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.

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Success Sequence

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

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Educator Professional Development

Professional learning that helps educators understand student decision-making, strengthen trusted relationships, and plan practical next steps.

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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.

Listen. Plan. Prepare. Deliver. Learn.

Every engagement begins by listening to the people involved and understanding the goals, existing supports, family expectations, safeguards, schedule, and practical constraints. Together, we define roles, prepare for delivery, and decide how quality and participant experience will be documented and used for improvement.

See how school implementation works

Evidence should be clear about what was measured—and what was not.

The Rural Alabama and Montana Program is historical work. Its 2022 evaluation compiled participant survey findings alongside methods and limitations; those findings do not establish results for BELIEVE or any current offering.

Historical findings relied largely on participant self-report. Entry and exit respondents were not matched at the individual level, and the results should not be interpreted as causal impact estimates.

What would stronger support for young people look like in your school or community?

Tell us whom you serve, what you are seeing, and what you hope to strengthen. We will help you identify a practical starting point, clarify responsibilities, and plan next steps.

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