Project HEAL is a multi-tier initiative dedicated to addressing challenges facing today's youth, especially those from marginalized and at-risk communities.

In conjunction with the Cactus Jack Foundation, Project HEAL unites initiatives ranging from academic scholarships, free mental health resources, a creative design center and a first-ever, tech-driven solution for event safety. These efforts, independently and collectively, aim to solve challenges and overcome issues impacting the youth community.

Initiative 1

Waymon Webster HBCU Scholarship Fund

The Waymon Webster Scholarship Fund will grant $1M in scholarships to seniors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities who have reached academic excellence (averaging 3.5 or higher GPA) but who are facing the last-minute challenge of financial adversity in their second semester senior year and risk not graduating. The scholarships will help bring 100 HBCU students over the finish line, diploma in hand. This is the second year that Scott has supported HBCUs and represents a tenfold increase.

Past recipients include students at Howard University, Morehouse College, Texas Southern University, Grambling State University, and Prairie View A&M University – Scott’s grandfather’s alma mater where he also served as an educator. The scholarship is named after Waymon to honor his lifetime of dedication to academic excellence. Learn more at cactusjack.foundation

Initiative 2

Expansion of CACT.US Youth Design Center

Travis, in conjunction with the Cactus Jack Foundation, will fund an expansion of the CACT.US Youth Design Center, a state-of-the-art, 60,000 sqft, multi-use workspace located in Houston, Texas. Since development began in 2021, hundreds of middle and high school students have already enrolled in the center and are on their way to become the next generation of creators and inventors.

HEAL will fund a new seven-figure comprehensive creative design education program for the Center – existing where fashion, art, technology, and music intersect – through a strategic online partnership with a leading HBCU. The expansion of the Center’s mission will afford students across the country, especially those from low-income communities, the opportunity to explore and hone their design skills with instructors with industry-experience.

Initiative 3

Mental Health Resources

HEAL will address the country’s skyrocketing mental health crisis – and focus much-needed resources to support services for young people, especially in lower-income communities of color, many of whom have few available, accessible, affordable mental health options.

Launching a free dedicated crisis-care hotline and online channel that will address the mental health needs of young people who identify as needing services; all crisis counselors will be licensed professionals, including counselors and social workers.

Mental health resources will be made available to area schools to help identify any students needing mental health counseling and to provide proper support.

Houston-based behavioral health expert, Dr. Janice Beal, will help lead the effort with Scott’s support. Beal, Programing Director of “Well Being in Color,” a peer mental health education program for students of color; in addition to her private practice, Dr. Beal most recently developed mental health pipelines for the Houston Independent School District during the COVID-19 pandemic and is a member of the Mayor of Houston's task force for special needs, and advises Congress members on youth mental health issues.

Initiative 4

Stakeholder and Tech-Driven Solutions for Event Safety

HEAL will address safety challenges for large-scale live events.

This effort will bring together all of the relevant stakeholders from government, public safety, emergency response, health care, event management, music, and technology. It will be the first time all of these groups and individuals will work together to most effectively address the safety challenges faced by future large-scale events. Scott, in conjunction with the group, will also aggressively focus on new technologies and innovations that offer ways to address the challenges posed by large-scale events.

At the conclusion of this research, HEAL will assist in the creation of a comprehensive report of recommendations to be presented formally and distributed to key stakeholders for adoption, including every Mayor of every town and city which hosts large-scale events. HEAL will work towards advocating that this report serves as the new safety and security blueprint for all festivals and large-scale events.

More information on these efforts, including product development, will roll out in 2022.

Travis Scott has created Project HEAL, a multi-tier, long-term series of community-focused philanthropy and investment efforts.

Project HEAL is backed by a multi-million dollar funding commitment from Travis Scott, and a portion of proceeds from his upcoming product launches will also go towards HEAL.

Project HEAL