From the National Institute for Health and Care Research to the New York Stock Exchange
Our founder on why TrustCircle exists and how it supports prevention, early intervention and resilience in K‑12 schools around the world.
1.5M+
1,000+
4+
- Schools that have used TrustCircle: United States (including Hawaiʻi), India, Malaysia, Kenya
- United Kingdom: research partner of the NIHR
Where the outcomes
come from.
Classroom
Students check in
2–3 minutes, private
School
Support staff see who may need attention
School
Staff act early
A note, a conversation
With district data
Tier 2/3 follow‑through
Service plans, sessions, outcomes
Measurable outcomes
5×
50%
Follow-through counts as an outcome: notes, sessions and plans closed
A district asks two questions: are students doing better, and is the school running better? We answer both, and show the follow-through between them, from the same check-ins.
The same daily check-ins and follow-through
Are students doing better?
Well-being outcomes
How students say they’re feeling over time, how many asked to talk to someone, and how many Tier 2/3 plans reached their outcome review.
In between
What staff did
Notes added, conversations held, plans opened and closed.
Is the school running better?
School metrics
Attendance and other measures your district already tracks, read from your data feeds.
Hawaiʻi schools on TrustCircle’s impact
Program directors, counselors and teachers, in their own words.
Also running across Nebraska’s ESU 2.How ESU 2 runs it
California schools call TrustCircle a game changer
Two California school administrators on how TrustCircle supports students and staff.
“TrustCircle is one of the most powerful tools I have ever seen for schools to grow students’ social emotional wellbeing, it has the potential to inform, transform, and even save lives.”
Stephen AndersonAssistant Principal, Gale Ranch Middle School, San Ramon Valley Unified School District, California Malaysian schools, in their own words
A vice principal at The Surin Academy in Kuala Lumpur on the difference TrustCircle makes in the school day.
Our work in India’s government schools, including remote tribal schools
With Piramal School of Leadership, TrustCircle brought daily emotion check-ins, mindfulness breaks and gratitude boards to government schools in Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha, including remote tribal schools.
A Rajasthan school day
In Surpur, Rajasthan, at Government Senior Secondary School, students in Classes VI and VII started the day with an emotion check-in, took short mindfulness breaks, and shared thanks on a digital gratitude board. Their teachers saw who might need support and followed up.
A program with Piramal School of Leadership in Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha
A high school student’s view of TrustCircle.Gauri Nimbalkar, High school student and UNICEF YuWaah youth advisor, India A college student on using TrustCircle.Mayur Dhole, Student, KBCNMU, Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Programs and honors
What each one recognized, and the page that says more.
- Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2026
#8 in Education.
- Fast Company World Changing Ideas 2026
An honoree in Education & Engagement.
- UNDP Digital X
Listed in the UNDP Digital X Solutions Catalogue.
- Healthy Brains Global Initiative
One of 51 programs in HBGI’s 2023 report on paying for outcomes.
- MB100 2026
Named to Meaningful Business’s 2026 cohort.
Four studies from India and the UK, and what each one shows
Most of TrustCircle’s research comes from work with SCARF, the WHO Collaborating Centre for mental health research in Chennai, India, and the University of Warwick, with funding from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The studies were done with young people in India, not in US K‑12 schools.
Research partners
“The increasing number of emotional problems among today’s youth combined with their preference to use technology makes TrustCircle an ideal platform for this population.”
Students in India using TrustCircle for early screeningSCARF–TrustCircle school and college studySCARF (WHO Collaborating Centre), University of Warwick, NIHR
- What it is
- 13,000+ students aged 15–24 in schools and colleges in India used the TrustCircle app for early screening; 99% consented to take part. The study reported better mental health literacy at 2 and 6 months.
A survey of young people’s mental health needs in ChennaiDepression, anxiety and psychotic-like experiences among young people in ChennaiSCARF
- What it is
- the largest study of its kind in India (13,000+ young people), measuring how common these experiences are in educational settings.
The plan for a multisite early-intervention study in IndiaWarwick-India-Canada (WIC) global mental health group: rationale, design and protocolNIHR Global Health Research Group
- What it is
- the published protocol for a multisite study of early intervention services for psychosis in India.
TrustCircle as the data platform for research in India and Sri LankaNIHR, WIC and TrustCircle global health collaborationUniversity of Warwick, NIHR
- What it is
- TrustCircle as the data-collection platform for research in Chennai, Delhi and Northern Province, Sri Lanka.
See how outcomes would be reported for your district
In the demo we’ll walk through the outcome review for a district like yours: what students said, what staff did, and where each figure comes from.
In your demo
- One student’s outcome review, start to finish
- Well-being and school metrics side by side
- Where each figure comes from
Sharing this with your counselors?What changes for support staff