MASK (Mothers Awareness on School-age Kids)

MASK Mission is to engage and educate parents, children and the community about the issues facing youth today and to empower children to make safe, healthy choices.

What is MASK?

MASK (Mothers Awareness on School-age Kids) is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization created in 2007 by a group of dedicated mothers who recognized the need to consistently educate families on rapidly-changing issues. The MASK mission is to engage and educate parents, children and the community about the issues facing youth and to empower children to make safe, healthy choices.

MASK strives to help children learn invaluable life skills for how to cope with a number of issues. In today's viral and social media world, coping skills are more necessary than ever. MASK gives students tools for how to handle many issues, including responding to peer pressure, technology-related challenges, refusal skills, emotional regulation, frustration tolerance, self-esteem and setting boundaries.

Today, suicide rates are at an all-time high and social media is influencing our children's self-esteem in many ways. MASK programs teach children and their families how to handle the ever-changing landscape that our children are living in. MASK addresses the multi-faceted issues our children are facing, and its programs give our community the tools it needs to communicate with students about real-life pressures, and provide them with appropriate coping mechanisms. MASK programs have served children, their families, and the community for over a decade, with the goal of building healthy children, strengthening parent-child bonds and improving school climate. MASK positively impacts the lives of thousands of children and their families and empowers every child to thrive in the 21st century.

MASK fulfills its mission by engaging, educating and empowering families through the MASK E3 Institute, MASK The Magazine, an informative website, the MASKMatters App and through MASK Live Segments streamed live through youtube.

The MASK E3 Institute
The MASK E3 Institute is a comprehensive year long multi-year approach to building and strengthening life skills for children, including MASK Academy (kindergarten-6th grade), MASK Prep (middle and high school), and Parent University. The digital format teaches -kindergarten through high school-age students pro social-emotional skills. MASK tackles important topics - from drugs and alcohol to bullying and Internet safety - and gives students, parents and the community the knowledge and tools to manage these potential challenges.

MASK The Magazine
MASK The Magazine is the parenting manual offering solutions to the modern-day challenges families face. Each issue of the award-winning MASK The Magazine tackles a specific topic in-depth and examines how it can affect kids from pre-kindergarten to college. Readers will learn age-appropriate conversation starters, which can help open the lines of communication between parents and children.

MASKMatters App
The MASKMatters app has been designed to give students, parents, and teachers tools and resources to complement all the topics MASK addresses. This information is age-appropriate and is available in Spanish. Getting quick and current information about these issues has never been easier or more convenient. Download the MASKMatters App today, and have modern-day parenting solutions right at your fingertips.

MASK Live-
MASK Live are segments which are streamed through the MASKmatters YouTube Channel. Featuring medical doctors, clinical psychologists, professors and professionals who share their expertise on parenting advice on health, prevention and connection. Viewers are invited to "join in'' to ask the expert questions and to be part of the discussion. The watch the full episodes or listen to the podcasts download the MASKmatters App.

Testimonials

Magazine: "I was just sitting at my desk reviewing and reading your magazine and I am absolutely blown away. MASK the Magazine is a tremendous piece of work on a variety of subjects and perspectives that school age children's parents will find so meaningful and important. The core idea is one that I have never seen presented in this way. Congratulations. I would also like to volunteer to introduce you to some of our faculty members. They are an amazing group and have expertise that you might find helpful, you might also twist a few arms and get an article or two that might fit with an issue's focus. Happy to meet you at the Scholarship luncheon and delighted to help in any small way to make your efforts a continued success. Sally C. Hurwitz Ph.D (Associate Dean, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, ASU

"I am so thankful that I found MASK. My child was a victim of cyberbullying and death threats. MASK has been there for me, and let me know that I am not alone. I have support and the information they provided on their website is priceless. MASK helped me find the strength to stand up to a system that was not ready for what hit all of us...