MENTALLY HEALTHY
MENTALLY HEALTHY
Curtis Schofield, M.Ed. is an educator, youth development specialist, organizational leader, speaker, and the Founder and Executive Director of Mentally Healthy. Throughout his career, Curtis has worked directly with young people through student support, academic and career development, mentoring, leadership development, crisis response, athletics, and school-based youth engagement.
His professional experience also includes organizational and operations leadership, providing him with a unique perspective on how people, leadership, culture, and systems work together.
While working alongside students, Curtis recognized that many young people receive valuable support through individual programs, conversations, and interventions — but those experiences are not always connected to a larger, intentional developmental journey. That observation became the question at the center of his work:
“How can schools more intentionally develop young people with the mindset, resilience, character, relationships, purpose, and leadership skills needed for life?”
That question became foundational to Mentally Healthy. Curtis developed the Nation Builder Framework™ as a connected approach to student development and established the Mentally Healthy School Partnership™ to help schools align student learning, leadership development, educator development, school culture, family and community engagement, and continuous improvement — all inside one intentional, school-first model.
His work is guided by a value-first philosophy centered on service, impact, relationships, authenticity, receptivity, and mission. Curtis holds a Master of Education in Elementary and Secondary School Counseling from Wilmington University and is pursuing a Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership.
Mentally Healthy is built around a simple belief: student development shouldn’t happen through disconnected programs and one-off interventions. It should be an intentional journey. The Mentally Healthy School Partnership™ is the flagship model that puts schools first — aligning every part of a school community around one connected, sustainable framework.
Every partnership is powered by the Nation Builder Framework™ and delivered through six aligned systems:
Classroom-connected content that builds mindset, resilience, and character.
Structured opportunities for students to build confidence, purpose, and leadership.
Training and support that equips staff to reinforce the model school-wide.
A shared language and set of practices that shape a healthier school climate.
Extending student growth beyond the building through connected relationships.
Ongoing measurement and refinement so the partnership grows with the school.
Curtis pairs hands-on experience in schools with formal training in counseling and organizational leadership — the combination that shapes how the School Partnership™ model is built and delivered.
Focused on the leadership structures, culture, and organizational systems that make a school partnership sustainable — not just a one-time program, but a model built to last. This training directly shapes how Curtis designs the School Partnership™ to fit inside a school’s existing structure: aligning administrators, staff, and families around one plan, sequencing implementation across a multi-year timeline, and building the continuous-improvement systems that let a partnership grow with the school rather than compete with its priorities.
Grounded in direct, evidence-informed counseling practice with students — the clinical foundation underneath the Nation Builder Framework™. This training gives Curtis a working knowledge of child and adolescent development, crisis response, and school-based support systems, so every pillar of the framework is built on sound practice rather than guesswork. It also means the School Partnership™ is designed to integrate cleanly with a school’s existing counseling staff and student support services, instead of duplicating or working around them.
Help schools develop mentally healthy students and build better tomorrows — one young person at a time.