Edge Foundation Mission
The Foundation's mission is to help every child, adolescent and young adult with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD or ADHD) to fully realize their own potential, personal vision, and passion.
The Edge Foundation believes that professional coaching while not a substitute for the traditional multi-modal treatment for (ADD) ADHD, is a critical and highly effective intervention in the nontraditional learner's ability to realize his or her potential. At Edge we want every student with (ADD) ADHD to have access to an ADHD coach. Coaching can give a young person the edge necessary to achieve his or her full potential in academic and other life pursuits.
Objectives
Our mission encompasses the following objectives:
- to increase the number of students with (ADD) ADHD who benefit from Edge coaching assistance.
- to increase the numbers of qualified (ADD) ADHD coaches trained to deal effectively with young people with (ADD) ADHD.
- to provide parents, young people, educational institutions, coaches, and others with a critical source of information about ADHD coaching and its positive effects.
- to ensure that Edge ADHD coaching is available to all students regardless of financial means by providing scholarship grants and loans.
- to document through sound scientific research the beneficial impact of coaching on the functioning of young people with (ADD) ADHD.
- to heighten policymakers' awareness of the effects of ADHD coaching on student dropout and retention rates and to effect changes in public policy to support widespread implementation of coaching across all age levels.
- to raise awareness of the challenges facing young people with (ADD) ADHD in order to increase diagnosis and opportunities for appropriate treatments in this group.