SUN Pathways - The First Implementation of Artifical Intelligence to Support Individuals with Lived Experience
SUN Scholars Inc.’s SUN Pathways program was a recipient of the Youth Villages Lived Experience grant and entirely built by alumni of the child welfare system. Built by SUN Scholars Inc. & the Conrad Group, Pathways aims to utilize AI to help high school age foster youth cross the bridge into the next chapter of their lives.
SUN pathways is available to high schoolers who spent time in foster care or adoption anywhere in the United States. Pathways is also available for educators, guidance counselors, nonprofit professioanals, and social workers who work directly with individuals with lived experience! SUN Pathways is currently free to use.
View the launch presentation of SUN Pathways, presented at the Youth Villages Summit in Chicago
AI Chat Assistants Trained on our IP & Staff
SUN Pathways offers several different chat bots, each trained after SUN’s evidence based practices, to support users across 4 different domains.
Why Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is a pandoras box that has been opened – it is reshaping society, and it is important for us to begin to utilize this new technology as it pushes the envelope of potential across different fields and disciplines
This is an early adaptation in the realm of child welfare. SUN has the potential to not only use this tool, but also establish guard rails and healthy boundaries on its use.
We see AI as the equivalent to power tools. Alongside technology, humanity can drastically increase productivity, reduce workload, and improve outcomes.