Build prevention infrastructure for the populations you serve.
For public-sector agencies and community partners, sponsored access helps bring prevention-focused, trusted human support to defined populations and geographies, reaching more young people earlier while supporting the operations and evaluation that keep delivery accountable.
Public good
Reach where it’s needed
Defined populations and geographies.
Public and community partners scaling prevention.
This path is for government and public-health partners interested in scaling prevention across geographies and populations, and community organizations bringing trusted support to the young people they already serve.
Public-sector agencies
Government and public-health partners interested in scaling prevention across geographies and populations.
Community organizations
Local partners interested in bringing sponsored, trusted human support to the young people they already serve.
Child-safety & advocacy
Safeguarding specialists and advocates who can help strengthen prevention practice and protection standards.
Prevention infrastructure that reaches underserved youth.
Support for a defined region, county, or state can help make prevention-focused support available where vulnerable youth are underserved, building durable infrastructure rather than a one-time program.
Scoped and accountable. Funding supports sponsored access for defined populations, communities, geographies, and implementation cohorts, not unbounded public enrollment. The Initiative is not therapy, clinical treatment, diagnosis, crisis counseling, or emergency response.
Reach, safety, and evidence together.
Sponsored access at scale
Support defined geographies and cohorts so more young people can reach trusted human support earlier.
Safety & safeguarding
Structured supervision, safety practices, quality review, and clear escalation to appropriate resources.
Accountable evaluation
Independent evaluation in partnership with UIC to study access, safety, and outcomes over time.
Implementation, scoped with you.
Implementation with public agencies and community partners supports defined geographies and cohorts, with scope and measurement agreed up front.
Define population & geography
The Initiative works with each partner to scope the population, region, or cohort sponsored access is intended to reach first.
Deliver supervised support
Chaperone Health, the operational delivery partner, provides supervised Peer Chaperone access.
Measure and report
Independent evaluation supports clear reporting on reach, safety, and improvement over time.
Public accountability, built in.
Delivery runs on peer-support infrastructure from Chaperone Health, the operational delivery partner, with research and evaluation in partnership with the University of Illinois Chicago, giving public partners a clearer basis for continued support.
Bring prevention to the young people you serve.
Tell us about your agency or organization and the populations and geographies you serve. We’ll follow up to explore how sponsored access can reach more young people earlier.
The Chaperone Initiative is not therapy, clinical treatment, diagnosis, crisis counseling, or emergency response. If you or a young person needs immediate help, call or text 988, or chat through the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. We never gate anyone in crisis behind a form.