About Children's Wellbeing Collaborative
We are a growing alliance of policymakers, pediatric experts, mental-health clinicians, educators, researchers, parent organizations, and community leaders committed to one goal: ensuring children’s wellbeing in a rapidly changing digital world.
We envision a country where children grow up grounded in real friendships, offline play, exploration, creativity, community, and rest. Where technology supports childhood — rather than replacing it.
Our Strategic Priorities
We have three strategic priorities:
1. Build Unshakeable Political Will
2. Deliver a Clear, Credible Implementation Blueprint
3. Shift Cultural Norms Around Childhood and Social Media
Our goal is to make action politically safe, provide government with a turnkey policy solution and make waiting until 16 the new common sense.
Partners We Need
To protect children’s wellbeing and create meaningful policy change, we need a broad coalition of people and organizations who care about young lives.
The Children’s Wellbeing Collaborative welcomes partners who bring expertise, lived experience, public influence, or simply a commitment to healthier beginnings for children.
We're looking for partners such as:
- parents and caregivers
- educators and youth workers
- child and youth mental-health professionals
- pediatricians and healthcare providers
- researchers and scholars
- child-safety and child-rights organizations
- legal and policy experts
- community leaders and advocates
- young adults with lived experiences
- public sector allies
If you're committed to children's wellbeing, there is a place for you here.
Preventable. Solvable. Our Moment.
Early social media use increases risks to mental health, attention, sleep, peer belonging, body image, and identity development.
Parents overwhelmingly want healthier boundaries but feel powerless to set them alone.
Platforms have proven unwilling to self-regulate.
Policymakers across the spectrum agree: children deserve developmental integrity.
This is preventable.
This is solvable.
This is our moment.
"Children's Wellbeing Collaborative is dedicated to ensuring children’s wellbeing in a rapidly changing digital world."
- Dr. Kristen Liesch, Founder, Children's Wellbeing Collaborative
Dr. Kristen Liesch (she/her)
Meet Our Founder
Dr. Kristen Liesch is a strategist, CEO, educator, and co-creator of the Equity Sequence®, used globally to drive equitable innovation. With a background as san academic focused on gender and social equity, Kristen has a career spanning teaching, consulting, and system-wide transformation. She has advised organizations across sectors—from law enforcement to education to social impact.
As a mother of four and a leader known for her clarity and courage, Kristen founded the Children’s Wellbeing Collaborative to address the documented mental-health and developmental impacts of early social media exposure.