Why MyCuraJOY Was Recognized In The 2025 Tools Competition: AI Behavioral Health

Many children around the world - and even children here at home - struggle to get access to the behavioral and mental health support that they need. Systemic inequities have persisted for a long time, leaving many youths in underserved communities to fall through the cracks. But curaJOY has been working on solutions that can stop that from happening. With its flagship program, MyCuraJOY, the organization aims to improve behavioral healthcare access with AI-driven technologies backed by clinician expertise. It’s clearly doing something right - after all, it has been named as one of the 24 finalists of the 2025 Tools Competitions’ Accelerating K-12 Learning Track, making it a potential candidate for multi-million dollar funding.

Learn more at https://tools-competition.org/25-accelerating-k-12-learning-finalists/

Tools Competition Funding

The Learning Engineering Tools Competition offers opportunities to edtech innovators that employ digital technology, big data, and learning science to bridge equity gaps in education worldwide. Its Accelerating K-12 Learning Track specifically focuses on technologies that improve the learning experience for diverse populations. 

Candidates for funding are therefore considered on the basis of whether their learning engineering technology can provide scalable and timely student support, broaden access, boost student success, and encourage family engagement in their child’s education, among other solutions that improve learning outcomes for students and support K-12 teachers.

How curaJOY Qualifies

curaJOY has qualified for the award for its innovations in AI-driven behavioral support designed to dismantle learning barriers caused by behavioral health challenges, learning differences, and lack of personalized support, particularly in underserved communities. According to the organization, schools are currently facing challenges without scalable, data-driven tools to meet Free Appropriate Public Education (FAFPE) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) obligations - a problem that it seeks to address with MyCuraJOY.

Automated Psychoeducational Assessments and Gamified Support

Let’s take a closer look at what it does. It’s really cool. MyCuraJOY combines AI, behavioral science, and social-emotional coaching into one app, providing students with real-time, clinician-supervised behavioral support without adding to administrative burdens. 

But don’t think that just because AI is involved that it’s taking jobs away from clinicians; in fact, it’s actually making their jobs easier and more sustainable. The technology takes a community-centered approach to involve parents, educators, and clinicians in the process, using machine learning to reduce stress, improve academic engagement, tailor skill-building, track IEP goals, and monitor behaviors, thereby delivering individualized care to each student. 

Additionally, MyCuraJOY will be available in multiple languages, expanding its reach to diverse populations and allowing it to be integrated into a variety of publicly funded school services. This is huge because many students who face behavioral health issues also often encounter language barriers in the healthcare and education systems. But MyCuraJOY will fix that.

Want to stay tuned for more updates? curaJOY is slated to present its final pitch at the Tools Competition on April 14, 2025, where it hopes to scale MyCuraJOY to more schools and communities nationwide. The organization also has plans to expand into Medicaid-covered services, school partnerships, and AI-enhanced learning research. 

If you want to learn more about what curaJOY has done so far, or even support its cause, you can also visit https://www.curajoy.org/solutions to read all about it.