RaiseWisely is research-informed digital wellbeing initiative equipping parents and educators with evidence-based practical tools and insights to support children in a digital world.
Parents Early Access Program
RaiseWiselyTM invites parents and carers to preview selected resources before public launch and help shape how RaiseWisely supports real families.
Date: 7-14 July 2026
RaiseWisely eMental Health International Symposium 2026
A global hybrid symposium held in person in Adelaide, South Australia.
Date: 20-21 October 2026
Venue: Stone & Chalk Adelaide, South Australia
Online: GMT +10.30 Adelaide (AU, NZ, APAC) | GMT +2 Copenhagen (EU) | GMT -4 Ontario (USA, CA)
RaiseWiselyTM values lived experience and community collaboration as essential complements to research, clinical expertise, and technology design. Lived experience provides forms of knowledge that may not yet be visible in academic literature or formal service systems. It can help researchers and developers see problems differently, question assumptions, frame more relevant research questions, gather richer data, and identify barriers, risks, and practical realities that may otherwise be missed. Community collaboration provides the process for bringing that knowledge into decision-making. By working with parents, educators, young people, practitioners, and lived experience leaders, RaiseWiselyTM aims to ensure that research questions, methods, technologies, and implementation pathways are shaped by the people and communities they are intended to support.
RaiseWiselyTM is designed to generate impact at both the community and systems level by addressing a critical lag between technological advancement and society’s capacity to respond. As digital environments evolve at an accelerating pace, families, schools, and institutions are left navigating change without coordinated, evidence-informed support. RaiseWiselyTM aims to close this gap by enabling evidence-based knowledge translation from research into real-world practice, ensuring that insight empowers parents, educators, and school leaders, and actively informs everyday decision-making.
Thursday, 28 October 2026 | 6-8 pm at Stone & Chalk, Adelaide
Is RaiseWisely a mental health service?
No. RaiseWisely is an educational wellbeing initiative, not a substitute for professional mental health care, diagnosis, treatment, or crisis support. If you or someone you know needs help, please contact Headspace, Beyond Blue, Lifeline, or a qualified health professional.
How can RaiseWisely help my family?
RaiseWisely helps parents and carers better understand the digital world young people are growing up in, from social media and gaming to AI, identity, relationships, and wellbeing. It supports calmer, more informed conversations at home, so families can respond with more confidence, care, and connection.
Do I need technical knowledge to use RaiseWisely?
No. RaiseWisely is made for everyday parents and carers, whether you feel confident with technology or not. You do not need to be an expert. The goal is to help you ask better questions, understand key issues, and support young people with greater confidence.
How does RaiseWisely support schools?
RaiseWisely helps schools build shared understanding around digital wellbeing, online safety, AI, gaming, social media, identity, and young people’s mental health. It supports more informed conversations between students, teachers, parents, and school leaders.
Is RaiseWisely designed for students?
No. RaiseWisely is designed for the wider school community. Students need support, but parents, carers, teachers, and school leaders also need shared language, practical tools, and confidence to respond well.
How does Mirror XR connect with RaiseWisely?
Mirror XR brings an experiential layer to RaiseWisely’s wider digital wellbeing work. While RaiseWisely equips parents, teachers, and school communities through education and shared understanding, Mirror XR helps students engage with key wellbeing themes through immersive storytelling, empathy, and reflection.
What is the broader vision behind RaiseWisely?
RaiseWisely is building a research-driven digital wellbeing initiative that helps communities respond to the digital world young people are already growing up in. We connect research, lived experience, education, technology, policy, and practice so digital wellbeing can move from concern to capability.
Why does cross-sector collaboration matter?
Young people are being shaped by AI, social media, gaming, and immersive technologies faster than most systems can respond. This cannot be solved in silos. RaiseWisely brings innovation, research, policy, and practice together so knowledge can move into timely, practical, and responsible action.
Why work with RaiseWisely?
RaiseWisely gives collaborators a practical pathway to turn expertise into real-world impact. For researchers and clinicians, it creates opportunities for translation, evaluation, and applied outcomes. For schools and community organisations, it offers tools, programs, and support for digital wellbeing. For policy, innovation, and funding partners, it provides a grounded way to respond to emerging technology risks with evidence, care, and implementation in mind.
Be an advocate
Help raise awareness about safer digital futures for young people. Share RaiseWisely with your school, workplace, community, or networks, and help start more informed conversations around digital wellbeing, AI, gaming, social media, and online safety.
Give or sponsor
Support RaiseWisely through individual giving, community contributions, sponsorship, or future crowdfunding campaigns. Every contribution helps us develop resources, improve access, support delivery, and bring research-informed digital wellbeing education to more families, schools, and communities.
Become a patron
Patrons help sustain the long-term vision behind RaiseWisely and Mirror XR. Your support enables deeper research translation, program development, evaluation, and access for communities that may not otherwise have the resources to participate.
