Dr. Caren Caty, Ph. D. is a Clinical Psychologist and a Community Mental Health Specialist who has developed and implemented school-based mental wellness programs focusing on promoting positive social and emotional development in school-age children kindergarten through 12th grade for over two decades.

After more than 20 years of working on the front line at public schools in Los Angeles county, addressing mental health needs with students and their families, I have witnessed  the great challenges young people face and how their social and emotional development can halt or grow in the face of adversity depending on whether or not they receive social and emotional support from caring people around them.

On my journey I gathered knowledge that is shared in my apps and youth support programs, PASSAGES (positive attitude supports solutions awareness growth education success), to help promote a sense of well-being, social connection, and success with developmental tasks and academic achievement in school-aged children from diverse cultural backgrounds.