FILTER Empowering youth to cultivate digital wellness for their mental, physical, and relational wellbeing.

Each letter in FILTER stands for one of the six areas we focus our teaching within: Following, Intentions, Life Story, Time, Emotions, and Reality. By acknowledging the positive, and safe guarding against the negative, we truly believe we can change the trajectory of the ways we are seeing Social Media affect our lives. We hope to stop the problem before it starts by teaching young people to set h

ealthy boundaries and create good habits early. We want to see them gain perspective and self-awareness, and ultimately use Social Media for the purpose it was originally designed: to cultivate connection, community and enhance our relationships with others. FILTER is a six session course the includes a video teaching, a Study Guide for each student participating, and a Leader Guide to help any educator, counselor, parent of volunteer administer the course. Designed to be completed within a standard class time, the curriculum can easily be implementing during Wellness, Communications, P.E., Advisory, Life Skills, or any other class where there is flexibility on content. Contact us to find out how you can get FILTER in your school or church and join the movement today!

Check out FILTER president Hannah George most recent interview with Steve Baumgartner, host of the Fire Forged Leader po...
11/17/2023

Check out FILTER president Hannah George most recent interview with Steve Baumgartner, host of the Fire Forged Leader podcast!

FILTER is a digital well-being and online safety curriculum designed to empower young people to set boundaries, create good habits, and achieve healthier rel...

Fantastic video from Thorn on what to do when you make a not so great decision online. Teens need to know that their lif...
09/14/2023

Fantastic video from Thorn on what to do when you make a not so great decision online. Teens need to know that their life isnt over just because photos were shared online that were never meant to be out there. Relevant and spoken in a language a teen can connect with!

Thorn’s Stop Sextortion campaign and PSA, narrated by Shay Mitchell, seeks to increase awareness about sextortion, destigmatize the issue, and encourage indi...

The REALITY session of our newest curriculum has been updated to include a section dedicated to AI, creating conversatio...
08/11/2023

The REALITY session of our newest curriculum has been updated to include a section dedicated to AI, creating conversations that encourage kids to use this new technology with wisdom and caution.

A big thanks to Jim Cole for assisting FILTER in creating this portion of the program!

Remembering that social media is NOT reality can free us from cycles of comparison and striving. Our program empowers yo...
08/09/2023

Remembering that social media is NOT reality can free us from cycles of comparison and striving. Our program empowers youth to live presently & authentic to themselves.

The sixth and final letter in FILTER stands for REALITY, and is the topic of instruction for the last week of the curric...
08/07/2023

The sixth and final letter in FILTER stands for REALITY, and is the topic of instruction for the last week of the curriculum!

This portion has been most recently updated in our 2023-2024 school year curriculum to include Artificial Intelligence & how to distinguish fact from opinion online.

Emotions have a large impact on mental health, so this week we’re talking about how social media is impacting the mental...
08/04/2023

Emotions have a large impact on mental health, so this week we’re talking about how social media is impacting the mental health of our youth.

Take a couple minutes to read this post with the link in our bio.

The fifth letter in FILTER stands for EMOTIONS, and is the topic of instruction for the fifth week in our digital wellne...
08/02/2023

The fifth letter in FILTER stands for EMOTIONS, and is the topic of instruction for the fifth week in our digital wellness curriculum.

This is where we focus on mental health, and steps we can take to practice mindfulness in our consumption of media.

Actually reducing screen time can be hard. Here’s some encouragement to make it happen!
07/21/2023

Actually reducing screen time can be hard. Here’s some encouragement to make it happen!

Here are some of FILTER’s tips & tricks for managing screen time.
07/19/2023

Here are some of FILTER’s tips & tricks for managing screen time.

The fourth letter in FILTER stands for TIME — the topic of instruction for the fourth week in our digital wellness curri...
07/17/2023

The fourth letter in FILTER stands for TIME — the topic of instruction for the fourth week in our digital wellness curriculum.

How much time are you spending online? How does that impact & change your life? We’ll be talking about that & more this week!

Data permanency is a big reason why Life Story is such a powerful topic in the FILTER First curriculum. We believe in th...
07/14/2023

Data permanency is a big reason why Life Story is such a powerful topic in the FILTER First curriculum. We believe in the importance of educating children early on so they can be good stewards of their digital footprints and online presence.

Read through this post to understand the power of the digital footprint in Life Story.
07/14/2023

Read through this post to understand the power of the digital footprint in Life Story.

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