Thrive VR is an evidence-based virtual reality program that supports youth mental health by building emotional resilience, self-worth, and crisis coping skills. Designed for use in schools, clinics, and community programs, the experience guides users through interactive scenarios that address stress, hopelessness, and warning signs of suicide. The program promotes awareness, mindfulness training, and help-seeking behaviors through immersive, self-guided learning. Thrive VR integrates clinical best practices and psychoeducation to help youth navigate difficult emotions and connect with support when it matters most.
Focus: Self-harm, suicide, and help-seeking
Goal: Strengthen coping skills, emotional regulation, and recognition of warning signs
Duration: 25 minutes
Supports: MTSS Tiers 1–3, IEP/504, clinics, and youth-serving organizations
Format: Self-guided
Fortitude VR introduces youth with key information on suicide to help improve resiliency. This includes a look into the data on prevalence and discusses the importance of understanding terms to help in recognizing and addressing suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Fortitude VR teaches youth how to identify warning signs and triggers of suicidal thoughts, and how triggers affect our thoughts, emotions, physiological responses, and behaviors, highlighting the interconnectedness of these factors in developing suicidal ideation.
Provides information on various crisis services available, such as local community services, emergency departments, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (988). It emphasizes the importance of seeking help from trusted adults or professionals when experiencing active suicidal thoughts.
Introduces various evidence-based coping strategies, grouped under the acronym TIPP (Temperature, Intense Exercise, Paced Breathing, Paired Muscle Relaxation), and encourages the practice of mindfulness and gratitude to help manage intense emotions and prevent suicidal ideation.
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