About Us
The Inspired Children & Youth Charitable Foundation is on a mission to help stop the rapid and continued decline in children’s mental health that started in 2020.*
We help protect vulnerable Children & Youth...
especially vulnerable girls, who are at risk of
on-line sex trafficking, bullying and other harmful effects of improper tech use.
We help fund existing, proven projects of other Canadian charities already working on this life-saving issue. Parents, educators and mental health practitioners need all the help they can get.
We help build awareness about the harmful effects of improper tech use.
Too much screen time contributes to the erosion of intellectual and creative brain power. Vulnerable youth in particular may not realize their full potential due to harmful tech use.
For details see “The Ledger of Tech Harms” published by the Center for Humane Technology, www.humanetech.com.
Only 27% of Canadian school-age children met the recommended recreational screen time of 2 hours or less. Children’s screen time skyrocketed through the pandemic and tripled in 2020. Parents reported children on screens 13 hours a day, almost every waking minute. Researchers expected to see a decrease in 2023, but parent surveys came back as consistently high.*
In short, too much screen use is having a negative impact on children’s mental health.
* Western University Children’s Mental Health Report
Our Board of Directors
Parmjit S. Mangat
President
Michelle N. Moore
Executive Director, Board Secretary
Anne-Sophie Brieger
Treasurer
Our Theory of Change
Social media, AI and other tech platforms have fundamentally changed our relationship with technology. Unfortunately, the business models of most tech companies are designed to steal our attention, to the detriment of our brainpower, capacity and ability to build meaningful connections with self, others and nature.
“Technology is extracting our attention, weakening our memory, and more.” – Center for Humane Technology
As a result, we are having fewer “real life” experiences, digital overwhelm, and constant interruptions. Most of us are running on the “hamster wheel of busyness”.
What is the result? Mental health suffers along with our capacity to create and innovate.
Vulnerable children & youth are even more at risk of increasing negative outcomes stemming from an unintentional relationship with technology. They are more susceptible to digital harms such as on-line sex trafficking, cyber bullying and the erosion of brainpower that accompanies unrestricted, reactive use of social media and AI chatbots.
At Inspired Children & Youth Foundation, we strive to keep current with the ever changing nuances of the online harm landscape by staying abreast with the research on how social media algorithms pose real-life harms to marginalized children & youth.
We believe that ALL have a right to exist safely online, benefit from intentional tech use and thrive. That is why we are dedicated to shining light on the problem through funding existing projects that work on this problem along with education and resources for parents, educators and leaders on a mission to improve mental health and life outcomes for children & youth, especially the vulnerable.
Our Story
Parmjit S Mangat
The Inspired Children & Youth Foundation was established in 2021 by Parmjit S. Mangat, following his retirement from his non-profit adoption agency and his immigration business.
Parmjit dedicated over 37 years to advancing the wellbeing of children, particularly those facing vulnerable circumstances. His journey began through his Canadian immigration practice, where he helped hundreds of families navigate complex international adoption cases—especially involving relative adoption* of children from India and other countries .
Recognizing his expertise and commitment, the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services (now the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services) invited Parmjit in 2000 to establish a licensed adoption agency to support both orphan and relative adoptions.
As Founder and Director of World View Adoption Association, Parmjit oversaw the placement of more than 500 children—from both Canada and abroad—into safe, loving homes. His deep, hands-on involvement gave him a profound understanding of the systemic barriers, cultural complexities, and urgent needs surrounding vulnerable children and youth.
With this insight and continued dedication, Parmjit founded the Inspired Children & Youth Foundation—extending his lifelong mission to protect and uplift children through targeted charitable initiatives and community partnerships.
* Adoptive parent is a family member (by blood or marriage) of the child
Anne-Sophie Brieger
Anne‑Sophie Brieger serves as Treasurer of the Inspired Children & Youth Foundation, bringing the same leadership and operational savvy she honed at Sago Mini, part of Spin Master. As VP of Operations & Finance at Sago Mini since early 2013, she’s the studio’s “chief juggler,” ensuring nothing slips through the cracks, operations run smoothly, and staff feel supported and energized. Her role at the Foundation extends that same commitment to thoughtful leadership and responsible stewardship in support of children and youth.
Michelle N Moore
Michelle is a passionate digital wellbeing advocate, dedicated to helping protect vulnerable children & youth from digital harms. As Executive Director of the Foundation, she leads strategy, governance, and grantmaking, together with the board. Further, she speaks and writes* on the topic of tech harms and provides resources to other non-profits, schools, parents and community groups on how to have a healthy relationship with technology.
Michelle believes all humans can be intentional about protecting their creative, mental, and intellectual capacity in this world of constant busyness and digital overwhelm. To that end, she curates and facilitates device free experiences for leaders. All profits go directly to the Inspired Children & Youth Foundation.
* Substack, Your Tech Relationship
Indigenous Land Acknowledgement
The Inspired Children & Youth Charitable Foundation work takes place on traditional Indigenous territories across Canada. From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations people that call this land home.
We also acknowledge that our events in Oviedo, Florida take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Potano (Timucua) and Seminole Tribes. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the stewards of it that have existed since time immemorial.
With this acknowledgment, Inspired Children & Youth Charitable Foundation, aims to raise awareness regarding the mass murder and forced removal of Native peoples that led to us inhabiting this stolen land now recognized as the state of Florida.
Colonization did not end when White settlers broke treaties and led their campaign of genocide, it is an ongoing process that affects Indigenous communities today. We hope to develop intentional, actionable strategies of harm reduction and building relationships with the original stewards of this land. Optical allyship is not sufficient—we must all continue to unlearn White-washed history and celebrate Indigenous communities.
We acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, so that we may try and move forward in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.
We reaffirm our commitment and responsibility in improving relationships between nations and to improving our own understanding of local Indigenous peoples and their cultures.
We believe in the significance of land acknowledgments as a way to recognize, respect and honour this territory, the treaties, the original occupants, their ancestors, and the historic connection they still have with this territory.
We are grateful for the opportunity to work on this part of Turtle Island.