New Research: Where Teens Find Belonging

What’s Happening at the Lab

Convenings

The Digital Wellness Lab convenes experts across technology, media, mental health, youth development, policy, education, and related fields 2–5 times a year to tackle complex, cross-disciplinary challenges in creating a healthier digital ecosystem for young people. Insights from these convenings are published in public white papers and inform future research. 

In 2025, we are planning or actively working on the following convenings:

  • Leveraging Interactive Media to Foster Social-Emotional Learning: Exploring opportunities to scale social-emotional learning (SEL) by integrating it into interactive media environments.
  • Actionable AI Guidelines for Children’s Digital Futures: Bridging policy, academic research, and product development to create practical guidance for designing healthy AI tools for young children (ages 2–6).
  • Youth Summit on Digital Wellbeing: Bringing together teens and young adults from corporate and nonprofit youth advisory councils to elevate youth perspectives on media literacy, technology policy, and mental health.
  • Best Practices in Healthy AI Development: Convening experts in academia, youth safety, education, and tech to define core developmental principles for AI-enabled features that prioritize mental health and safety.

We actively seek mission-aligned partners to co-host convenings and welcome additional funding support to expand the reach and impact of these critical cross-sector conversations. If your organization is interested in becoming involved as a financial supporter, please email our Executive Director, Cori Stott.


Upcoming Events

february

22feb8:43 pm8:43 pmLearning More Festival

24feb8:45 pm8:45 pmThe Aspen Institute

25feb9:20 pm9:20 pmStudent Advisory Council Mental Health Educational Panel


Past Events

december

04dec2:32 pmDiscussions on Digital Wellness – Q4 2025

03dec2:28 pmGame On: Creating Safe Gaming Spaces Together Townhall

03dec2:14 pmPromoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium (PRISM)

november

18nov2:00 pm2:00 pmThe Age of AI: Navigating AI’s Risks and Benefits for Youth

12nov1:57 pm1:57 pmContinuing Medical Education Course: Problematic Media Use

11nov(nov 11)1:55 pm12(nov 12)1:55 pmFriends Select School – Digital Wellbeing Workshops

11nov1:54 pm1:54 pmConnecticut Association of School Based Health Centers

10nov1:51 pm1:51 pmFamily Online Safety Institute Annual Conference

06nov(nov 6)1:50 pm08(nov 8)1:50 pmIAAH World Congress for Adolescent Health

05nov(nov 5)1:47 pm07(nov 7)1:47 pmUnmuted: 2025 Amplify Youth Summit

03nov(nov 3)1:45 pm04(nov 4)1:45 pmMA-HPERD Convention