Photo: Tailon Penn, 21, a DreamKit Youth Specialist, started out as a user of the app and now supports other unstably housed youth for it.
Could an app that teaches you to meditate, learn about the power of vulnerability and other life skills -- and then rewards you with a gift card -- be too good to be true? Nope. The DreamKit app, created by Marina Marmolejo, incentivizes unstably-housed youth to learn and build life skills to help them become successful. “As a society, we do a really good job at tracking negative behaviors,” Marmolejo notes. “We don’t do a good job, at all, of shouting from the rooftops of how incredible our young people are.” Marmalejo takes a hands-on, actively involved approach to learning from the youth she serves, in order to make her app better but also to reach more youth in New Haven, Conn.
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