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The Renée Crown Wellness Institute is discovering how young people and adults who support them can access their inner resources to be well — through groundbreaking science, shaped by many perspectives, and designed to create tools for real change in classrooms, waiting rooms, and living rooms.

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Fast facts

Since 2019, the Crown Institute has:

  • Engaged 30,000 young people, 5,000 family members, and 2,000 educators
  • Worked with 1,200 individual research contributors across 54 research projects
  • Collaborated with 23 community partners and scholars in 18 different disciplines
  • Become the only recognized research-practice partnership focused on mental health and wellness in NNERPP’s national network with our partners at the Boulder Valley School District
  • Been honored with design accolades at the Webby Awards for InsideU, our Disney/Pixar collaboration inspired by the film Inside Out 
  • Expanded our signature programs across the nation and globally

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Julie Poppen

Editorial Director, Strategic Communications

University of Colorado Boulder

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