About
Wellbeing Applications LLC
VillageMetrics is proudly developed by Wellbeing Applications LLC, a company dedicated to creating tools that empower families and individuals to live healthier, more meaningful lives. Our flagship product, VillageMetrics, is designed to help parents of children with severe behavioral challenges make informed decisions about their child’s care.
Our journey began with our first product, BestSelfApp, a personal tracking app that helps users define and achieve their own version of success. While BestSelfApp focused on individual growth, VillageMetrics emerged as a solution to a deeply personal challenge: understanding and improving the behavior of children with autism and ADHD. Both apps reflect our commitment to using data to improve lives, whether for personal success or family well-being.
The Story Behind VillageMetrics
VillageMetrics was born out of a deeply personal need. As a parent of a child with autism and severe problem behaviors, I’ve experienced the struggles of navigating her care without reliable data.
For years, my family worked tirelessly to manage Sydney’s behaviors, medications, and therapies. Like many parents, we relied on fragmented notes and anecdotal observations, often skewed by recency bias. Each doctor’s visit or therapy adjustment felt like a guessing game—critical decisions being made with incomplete information. It was frustrating, stressful, and left us feeling powerless.
To try and address this, I began tracking Sydney’s behavior in a simple spreadsheet. It wasn’t perfect, but even basic data helped guide decisions, like adjusting medications and routines. Still, the process was clunky, limited to just Sydney’s mom and me, and excluded valuable input from her therapists and other caregivers. It was clear we needed a better way.
Sydney’s time at the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Neurobehavioral Unit reinforced the importance of data. There, her behavior was meticulously tracked every moment of every day to assess the impact of medications and behavioral interventions. While the insights gained were invaluable, access to this level of data is rare and prohibitively expensive for most families. It became clear that parents like me needed a way to collect and utilize similar insights at home, in a collaborative and affordable manner.
That’s why I built VillageMetrics. This app puts parents in control, allowing them to collect and analyze data from their entire caregiving team. By giving parents the tools to measure progress, understand what’s working, and make data-backed decisions, VillageMetrics empowers families to improve their child’s behavior and quality of life.
Doug Kerwin
Founder of VillageMetrics