Press Release: Supporting CASE 2025: Tools for tackling the youth mental health crisis
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Press release: The Tuchman Family Foundation and the Anxious Generation offer tools to help schools create phone-free environments.
Denver, CO – The Anxious Generation Movement, proudly supported by the Tuchman Family Foundation, is sponsoring the 2025 Colorado Association of School Executives (CASE) Convention, taking place July 23–25 in Breckenridge.
This sponsorship comes at a pivotal moment for Colorado’s youth and the educators who serve them. Colorado recently passed House Bill 25-1135, requiring public schools to implement student phone-use policies by July 1, 2026— a move aimed at addressing the surge in youth mental health challenges linked to phone-based childhoods.
With its partners, The Anxious Generation Movement and Let Grow, the Tuchman Family Foundation will host a resource booth at CASE (Booth No. 39 in the exhibit hall) where education leaders are invited to explore research-backed tools, sample policies, and implementation guides from The Anxious Generation Movement’s bell-to-bell phone-free schools toolkit. The booth will also offer strategies for engaging communities and reclaiming childhood through school culture.
The initiative is inspired by the work of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, whose research has drawn national attention to the adolescent mental health crisis and the vital role schools can play in turning the tide.
Attendees can also connect directly with phone-free advocates and Let Grow, a national nonprofit that helps schools and families promote childhood independence and resilience.
“Colorado schools have a unique opportunity to create healthier learning environments for kids by adopting bell-to-bell phone-free school policies,” said Debra Tuchman, co-founder of the Tuchman Family Foundation. “Giving kids more opportunities to connect, play, and engage offline can improve learning and help reverse the mental health crisis. This conference is the perfect place to continue those conversations.”
About the Tuchman Family Foundation
Based in Colorado, the Tuchman Family Foundation embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of its founders, Kenneth and Debra Tuchman, in its efforts to help people build safe, healthy and productive lives. The foundation is committed to advancing K-12 education innovation, breakthrough medical research, positive social change, community well-being and environmental sustainability.
