Nest Foundation

Our mission is to prevent violence through education by addressing the interconnected nature of all forms of harm. Our programs cultivate mental wellness and prioritize human connection to foster a society where everyone is valued and everyone belongs. We do this through curriculum and programming that educates and empowers young people and their caregivers, schools, and communities, engaging various stakeholders to realize our vision of a world where happier humans do less harm.

A world where happier humans do less harm.

Goal One: Deliver our innovative K-12 violence prevention curriculum to students across the US.

Goal Two: Train teachers, counselors, and school staff across the US in how to implement our violence prevention curriculum and how to respond compassionately to disclosures of violence and abuse.

Goal Three: Increasing community and parent/caregiver engagement to ensure sustained learning beyond the classroom.

In June 2022, Nest was invited as the only US organization to participate in the Child Protection Professional Training at Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. The program brings together global teams of civil society partners who work to protect children from abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect.

In 2023, we completed “You Belong Here”, our innovative 90+ lesson K-12 curriculum. YBH is the only violence prevention curriculum that comprehensively addresses the interconnectedness of all forms of violence and harm. It does this by building skills that promote healthy communication and conflict resolution, foster accountability, nurture mental wellness, and promote tolerance and acceptance. We equip youth with practical tools to mitigate harm and violence, breaking the cycles of victimization and offending behaviors. We have taught sexual violence prevention curricula in schools nationwide since 2014, but heeding the urgent findings of the CDC, which emphasizes that traditional, single-issue violence prevention methods are insufficient in today's context, we responsively broadened our scope to address the interconnectedness of violence and thus increase public health impact.