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Resiliency Technologies, Inc.

Twenty years of listening. Built for schools and communities.

Resiliency Technologies develops mental health literacy and resiliency technology for young people and the adults who support them. Sharpen® is the product of two decades of community-based participatory research, built for schools, families, campuses, and community organizations.

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Our Origin

Built from listening,
not assumption.

Sharpen® was built by listening. Robyn Hussa Farrell and Tim Farrell conducted more than 100 unscripted community listening sessions across the country, asking real students, families, educators, and providers what they actually needed to improve mental health outcomes.

The result is a library of more than 700 evidence-based modules and 4,000 peer-created documentary videos answering the 160 most commonly asked questions about mental health, delivered in the everyday places where young people live and learn.

100+
Documentary listening sessions
50,000+
Post-program surveys
700+
Evidence-based modules
4,000+
Peer-created documentary videos
Why Communities & Educators Choose Sharpen®

Rigorous research.
Real-world results.

01
Community-Rooted Content Library
The Sharpen® content library is the result of listening to students, families, educators, and providers across two decades. When people engage with our toolkits, they learn from people who look like them, walk like them, and talk like them.
02
Proven in Real Deployments
Sharpen® has run across more than 80 organizational deployments and 60 toolkit implementations, reaching more than 47,000 users who explored over 2.8 million modules. Every pathway was self-directed, with no prompting: real engagement from real communities.
03
Engagement That Outperforms
Average engagement across all toolkits is 57%, compared to a 4–11% industry benchmark. Sessions run 10–44 minutes per module, and some cohorts sustained 182 average active days per user.
04
Your Brand, Your Community
Toolkits deploy as your organization's own branded experience, customized to the people you serve. No clinical license needed, and our team stays alongside yours from implementation through measurement.
Research Network

25+ institutions. 250+ collaborators.

The Sharpen® evidence base spans peer-reviewed publications, longitudinal implementation studies, and ongoing research collaborations with leading academic partners.

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  • Stanford University School of Medicine
  • UC San Francisco
  • UC Berkeley Center for Data Science
  • Emory University / Rollins School of Public Health
  • Georgia Health Policy Center
  • Medical University of South Carolina
  • San Diego State University
  • University of West Georgia
  • James Madison University
  • + 15 additional partner institutions
Accreditation & Validation

Standards that earn
community trust.

WOSB / WBENC
Woman-Owned Small Business
Federally certified WOSB and WBENC-recognized woman-owned enterprise
NBCC ACEP
Approved Continuing Education Provider
National Board for Certified Counselors approved CE provider
SCRA Client Company
South Carolina Research Authority
South Carolina Research Authority client company
AWS AI Partner
AWS Premier Tier Partnership
Amazon Web Services AI Premier Tier Partnership via Comm-IT
HIPAA Compliant
Enterprise-Grade Data Security
Full HIPAA compliance with enterprise-grade security infrastructure
Creative Destruction Lab
UW Madison CDL Graduate
Graduate of the 2025 CDL cohort, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Bring Sharpen® to
your community.

Tell us about the people you serve and we'll map the right starting point together.

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Clinical Platform

Health system, hospital,
or health plan?

Sharpen® DTX, our clinical decision support and digital therapeutics platform, lives at SharpenHealth.com, built on the same two decades of research.

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