Strong 365

What Strong 365 does

Strong365 Lab is a privately held, founder-led social impact consultancy founded in 2014 by Chantel Garrett, MPH, originally as a lived-experience mental health community platform under the name Strong365 and rebranded in 2023 to its current form to reflect a pivot toward professional services. The firm operates at the intersection of public health strategy, intervention research and co-design, and creative development, with a focus on youth mental health and early psychosis. Its core methodology combines behavior change frameworks and human-centered design principles with an equity lens, and the organization co-designs interventions with adolescents and young adults through a Teen Impact Advisors board and an Advisory Board that bring lived-experience and clinical perspectives into projects.

Strong365 Lab's service offerings are organized around three practice areas: public health strategy, research and co-design, and creative development. The firm has delivered brand refreshes, website redesigns, community outreach strategies, and research collaborations for clients including UCSF Path Program for Early Psychosis, Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing (GoodForMEdia), OnTrackNY at the New York Psychiatric Institute, Michigan's Network 180 (Michigan Minds Empowered), Northwell Health, UCLA Health, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine's HeadsUp program. The firm also operates the Strong365 Community platform, an online resource library for youth and caregivers, and in April 2024 partnered with peer listening app HearMe to embed peer support services into that community. Research outputs include the NYWell randomized controlled trial with Northwell Health on digital outreach plus care navigation, and digital media advertising testing in early psychosis intervention.

The business model is project-based consulting revenue from healthcare providers, academic institutions, and government agencies, supplemented by grant-funded research collaborations and free community-facing educational content. Specific pricing for consulting engagements is not publicly disclosed, and no funding rounds, headcount, or financial metrics are reported. Geographic footprint spans California, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with no disclosed international operations. The firm is not a technology product company and does not maintain a mobile application; its technical core is its methodology, research assets, and partner ecosystem rather than a software platform.

Name

Strong 365

Legal name

Strong365 Lab

Website

https://strong365.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Strong365 Lab is a private social impact consultancy that provides youth mental health public health strategy, intervention research and co-design, and creative development services to academic, clinical, and government partners including UCSF, Stanford, OnTrackNY, Northwell Health, and Network 180.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Consulting

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Health, Health Promotion & Behavior Change (SBCC) (BPADAIAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Patient Community, Peer Support & Social Engagement (HLACAEAK), Health Systems Strengthening & Global Health Technical Assistance (BPADAEAH)

Keywords

• Public health consulting
• Intervention research
• Youth mental health
• Human-centered design
• Behavior change strategy

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Strong365 Lab is a social impact consultancy that provides youth-focused public health strategy consulting, intervention research and co-design, and creative development services to youth-serving organizations and healthcare providers. Using behavior change and human-centered design principles with an equity lens, the firm partners with young people with lived experience to create, test, and evaluate products and interventions for teens and young adults, and supports organizations in creating brands and content that resonate with diverse communities.

Product overview

Strong365 Lab is a social impact consultancy rather than a technology product company. They offer professional services including public health strategy consulting, intervention research and co-design, and creative development services. Their work focuses on guiding organizations to reach and engage diverse populations in the mental health space using behavior change and human-centered design principles with an equity lens. They partner with young people to create, test, and evaluate products and interventions designed for teens and young adults, and support organizations in creating brands and content that resonate with diverse communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public Health Strategy Consulting

Quantifiable outcome

• During 14-week pilot campaign, ads appeared 191,313 times and were clicked 4,350 times. Users took additional help-seeking steps: psychosis-specific information (n=1,918/44%), completed psychosis self-screener (n=671/15%), self-referred to early psychosis services (57/1%). Two-thirds of people completing the screener scored at-risk for first episode psychosis.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HearMecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2024Strategic partnership with peer listening app HearMe to offer young people a platform for real-time, empathetic peer support. The partnership embeds peer support services into Strong365 Community and plays a key role in upcoming Strong365 Lab research projects including the PAWell digital campaign in Pennsylvania.
• UCSF Path Program for Early PsychosiscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative rebrand, website redesign, and community outreach partnership to grow mental health literacy and improve treatment rates among young people in the San Francisco Bay Area. Supported recruitment for the SCZ AMP ProNET study.
• Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing (GoodForMEdia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRevitalized online presence across digital platforms including website and social media. Refreshed brand identity, improved website navigation, and transformed content to drive deeper engagement with youth around social media and well-being.
• OnTrackNY (New York Psychiatric Institute)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCulturally-attuned community outreach strategies to engage diverse communities and grow non-clinical referrals. Also collaborated on short film series with Lipp Studios sharing youth experiences with psychosis.
• Network 180 (Michigan State)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeveloped and growing centralized digital support hub (Michigan Minds Empowered) to guide youth experiencing symptoms of psychosis toward local care options statewide. Expanding site content and functionality.
• Northwell HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration on NYWell randomized control trial testing digital outreach campaigns paired with interactive online care navigation platform to shorten pathways to mental health care for transition-age youth.
• HeadsUp (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in PAWell digital campaign funded through Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, examining how online educational resources and care navigation can accelerate access to mental health care among teens statewide.
• UCLA HealthminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCommunity partner for UCLA Health Safe Steps study, serving on steering committee and advising on community partner strategy for evidence-based interventions for youth presenting to emergency departments with suicidal concerns.
• Northwell Health Early Treatment Program (Dr. Birnbaum et al)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration on using digital media advertising in early psychosis intervention, testing over 2,000 keywords and 200 ads to identify effective help-seeking triggers.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Kognito: Kognito builds behavior-change simulations and digital interventions for health and mental health professionals and trainees. Its use of behavior change frameworks and research-validated interventions for mental health audiences makes it a directly comparable niche peer to Strong365 Lab.
• Fraym: Fraym provides data, insights, and consulting to social impact organizations designing community-based programs. Its B2B model serving nonprofits, foundations, and public agencies with research-driven strategy is directly analogous to Strong365 Lab's social impact consultancy offering.
• Hopelab: Hopelab is a social impact organization that combines behavioral science, design, and technology to improve youth mental health and well-being. It is highly comparable to Strong365 Lab given its shared focus on youth mental health, co-design with young people, and B2B partnerships with healthcare and education organizations.
• Equal Measure: Equal Measure is a social impact evaluation and consulting firm that supports nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies. Its mission-driven consultancy model, co-design methodology, and similar client base make it a close peer to Strong365 Lab's public health strategy work.

Broad incumbents

• Mathematica: Mathematica is a major social policy and health research consultancy that conducts program evaluation, surveys, and policy analysis for federal, state, and foundation clients. It serves the same public health agency client base as Strong365 Lab but at far greater scale.
• ICF International: ICF International is a large management consulting firm with deep public health, behavioral health, and social program practices serving federal and state agencies. It represents the scaled incumbent competitor to niche consultancies like Strong365 Lab.
• Abt Global: Abt Global is a research and consulting firm with a substantial public health practice serving federal and state agencies on health systems, behavioral health, and program evaluation. It is a larger incumbent competing for the same government contract pool as Strong365 Lab.
• RAND Corporation: RAND Corporation is a large research institution conducting policy analysis across health, education, and social services. It engages with many of the same academic medical centers, foundations, and government agencies as Strong365 Lab but at much greater scale and breadth.
• WestEd: WestEd is a nonprofit research, development, and consulting agency focused on education, health, and workforce outcomes. It serves similar public agencies and academic institutions as Strong365 Lab but operates at substantially larger scale and broader scope.
• JSI (John Snow, Inc.): JSI is a global public health consulting organization that advises governments, NGOs, and health systems on strategy, research, and program implementation. Its public health strategy and research services directly overlap with Strong365 Lab's core offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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