Finding Balance

Balance uses easy to use, and developmentally appropriate technology to meaningfully improve total well-being of youth by tracking and addressing those things that have the greatest impact on physical and mental health.

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Fun and simple app features

Identify trends and triggers in your or your child’s day with easy tracking that can be done from your phone or tablet. Easy to read display and colorful emojis engage and empower youth to take control of their health and well-being.

Balance uses positive psychology and motivational theory to encourage interaction with the app. Mindfulness activities and meditations help improve overall health, reduce stress and anxiety, increase happiness, and improve sleep.

Mood Tracker

Identify and log how you are feeling with simple emojis.

Activity Data

Track activity with fun emojis

Sleep Tracker

Track hours of sleep.

Mindfulness & Meditation

Mindfulness activities, a meditation series, and motivational reminders

Total health & well-being score

Personalized algorithms use sleep, mood, and activity to create a personalized daily Balance score unique for each user.

Positive Psychology

Balance uses positive psychology and motivational theory to encourage interaction with the app.

F.A.Q

How can this app help to improve health and well-being?

Balance uses mood + activity + sleep to determine total well-being. Personalized Balance scores can be reviewed daily, weekly, and monthly to identify patterns over time. Patterns help you and your child understand what things help and hurt overall wellness.

Will my child be able to use this app?

Yes! Finding Balance uses pictures and emojis to engage and encourage interaction within the app. Throughout the day, gentle reminders are sent using our notification to encourage use. We designed the app to empower youth and are confident that once they get started using Balance, they will love and use it often. The easy to navigate features use images familiar to kids and teens, swipe and click technology, and a scoring system to make understanding health and well-being fun.

What is the Balance score?

The Balance score is an indicator of overall well-being. The score is calculated using an age-appropriate combination of sleep, mood, and activity to generate a score between 0 to 100. There is no ‘ideal’ Balance score. Generally, higher scores reflect an even distribution of healthy behaviors and positive feelings and lower scores indicate a rough day.

The Finding Balance founders are motivated to help improve youth well-being and development due to alarming statistics like these

One in six youth ages 6 to 17 experience a mental health disorder each year
One in 54 children has a developmental diagnosis
50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people aged 10 to 34
55% of teens experience anxiety
45% of teens report excessive stress
43% of teens experience depression
61% said the pandemic has increased their feelings of loneliness
More than 13 million people under the age of 18 are obese

Simple & Intuitive Interface

Balance is now available for iOS devices

* Available on iPhone devices

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Have more questions? Reach out any time.

The Balance team is a small group with over 35 years of combined health and human development expertise.

Balance is led by CEO, Erin Carr-Jordan, Ph.D., and COO, Annissa Furr, Ph.D. Dr. Carr-Jordan is a noted expert in child and adolescent development with more than 15 years of experience. Dr. Furr has 10+ years’ experience as the Research Director of Kids Play Safe, is a subject matter expert on public and children’s health, and a science professor.