Empower your students with lifelong coping and social skills.
Everybody Matters teaches K-12 students how to cope and thrive.
Regardless of their background or emotional state, every child deserves the best education possible and a life of happiness and fulfillment—because every child matters. That’s the guiding philosophy behind Everybody Matters (EM), a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching lifelong coping and social skills to children who can benefit from additional support. Our trauma-responsive support is provided by university interns who receive specialized training and ongoing feedback from experienced clinicians on the EM staff. This enables them to empower children with a wide variety of lifelong coping skills, which in turn helps the kids to thrive in the classroom, at home and throughout their lives.
Everybody Matters matches students with dedicated social work interns.
“We are simultaneously helping kids and building the next generation of committed, engaged, and fired-up social workers. As a social worker, I saw so many kids falling through cracks and families that weren’t in the position to get the services they needed. As a professor, I saw talented college students with so much to offer, anxious to get robust real-world experience, and bring their academic studies to life.”
— Lori Madrid, LCSW
Founder & CEO, Everybody Matters
Why choose Everybody Matters?
One-to-one meetings on campus where students feel comfortable
Students learn lifelong coping and thriving skills
Students demonstrate increased pro-social behavior and report being happier
Students show improved academic performance
Cost-efficient, intern-based model dramatically lowers cost to your school
Teachers report a positive effect on the entire school climate
96% of teachers who participated in EM would recommend it to others
Interns are knowledgeable, dedicated and compassionate social workers
Interns are extensively trained in the proven EM model
No cost to parents and no need to provide transportation
Everybody Matters works.
-Jenny Robles, Principal
The success of Everybody Matters was demonstrated in a study during the 2018–2019 school year in the Balsz School District in Phoenix. Teachers and parents were surveyed before and after each eight-week individualized support session. The students were assessed on their ability to:
positively express emotions
demonstrate positive social skills
cope with life circumstances
use coping skills
improve overall classroom or home behavior
The average teacher rating for a child's emotional well-being increased from 2.6 to 3 on the five-point Likert scale. The parent average increased from 2.6 to 3.3 on the same scale.
Both teacher and parent surveys showed that Everybody Matters was most effective in helping with the most common areas of referral: coping skills and emotional support. Read the report.
We Matter to…
Universities
Arizona State University
Grand Canyon University
Northern Arizona University
Simmons College
Louisiana State University
University of Denver
University of Utah
University of Central Florida
Eastern New Mexico University
California State University - Northridge
University of North Carolina
Fordham University
Howard University
School Districts
Paradise Valley Unified School District
Mesa Public Schools
Balsz School District
Miami Unified School District
Flagstaff Unified School District
Williams Unified School District
Crane Elementary School District
Madison School District
Fredonia-Moccasin Unified School District
Students are the key to their own success.
“At Everybody Matters, we teach our social work interns that behavior has meaning. First we work to understand “why” the student is behaving the way they are, then we can help them improve. Our interns understand the fight-flight-freeze dynamic and how the kids’ behaviors can be explained via those reactions. These aren’t “bad” kids—they are great kids having “stress” reactions. As experts in their own experience, each child holds the key to their own happiness and ability to thrive.”
- Lori Madrid, LCSW
Founder & CEO, Everybody Matters
