If you are a teen/youth seeking virtual coaching or health resources visit our platform  www.jovensalud.net

“I felt alone and frightened until the night I reached out to JovenSalud.
My coach’s words changed my life.”

-Jareth, 18

About Us

TeenSmart builds personal leadership in youth through online coaching, life skills courses, and health resources on our virtual platform JovenSalud. We believe in the power of all teens to embrace their full potential, uplifting themselves and their communities. Teens often turn to risk behaviors, derailing their path to a healthy and productive adulthood.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Teens often turn to risk behaviors, derailing their path to a healthy and productive adulthood.
Some issues we care about:

1 in 2

mothers in Costa Rica have had a teenage pregnancy

79%

of teen suicides occur in low and medium income countries

2 in 3

people arrested for drug trafficking in El Salvador are under 24

OUR RESPONSE

167,762

Registered
Users

181,551

Coaching
Requests

22,932

Completed Online
Courses

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103,164

Filled Health
Questionnaires

101

Organizations
Served

86%

General
Satisfaction

SUCCESS STORIES

Teens tells us about how JovenSalud helped them reach their goals!

AWARDS

1st Place Carlos Slim Foundation Exceptional Health Institute Award for Latin America, 2016.

2nd Place JK Visionary Award from the InterAmerican Development Bank, 2018.

2nd Place Non-Profit with greatest social Impact in Latin America by VIVA Idea Schmidheiny, 2018.

Solver. MIT-SOLVE. Innovation that supports Equity Classrooms. 

Social Health Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean, that helps to reduce health inequity gaps. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO, WHO), 2023. 

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TeenSmart is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and is legally registered in the United States, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Email: administracion@teensmart.net

Tel: (506) 8685-6145

Youth services website: www.JovenSalud.net