A Contagious Smile

A Contagious Smile & A Contagious Smile Academy
A Contagious Smile is not just a brand — it’s a battle cry, a safe haven, and a living example of what resilience, community, and compassion can build when the world turns its back.

Founded by Dr. Victoria Cuore, a survivor of brutal domestic violence, countless court battles, and over 100 surgeries, A Contagious Smile began as a deeply personal mission — a lifeline for those who felt as alone and overlooked as Victoria once did. After surviving physical trauma that required full facial reconstruction, spinal operations, and the eventual amputation of her arm, Victoria refused to let her story end in silence. She took the pain, the injustice, and the isolation — and built something revolutionary.

Today, A Contagious Smile is a globally recognized trauma-informed platform, offering free and low-cost courses, advocacy, support groups, and customized resources to a wide spectrum of individuals who are often left behind: survivors of abuse, special needs families, veterans, children facing medical challenges, and those in recovery.

What Sets Us Apart
Where most platforms offer textbook solutions or one-size-fits-all programs, A Contagious Smile delivers real-world healing crafted by people who have lived it. Every single course, podcast, resource, and support tool comes directly from firsthand experience. Our founder didn’t read about trauma in a book — she survived it. She didn’t study resilience in theory — she fought for it on an operating table, in a courtroom, and beside her medically fragile daughter’s hospital bed.

We don’t just provide support. We become the support system for those who feel like they have none.

A Contagious Smile Academy: Education That Heals
At the heart of our movement is A Contagious Smile Academy, home to over 100 original courses, all written with love, empathy, and purpose. Courses are divided into powerful collections that speak directly to the unique needs of our community:

🔥 Safe Haven Phoenix Center
For survivors of domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, and trauma, offering tools to rebuild confidence, regain self-worth, and take actionable steps toward independence and emotional peace.

🧠 Roots & Wings Academy
For parents, caregivers, and individuals in transition who are healing while still holding the lives of others together. These courses help families communicate better, manage mental health, and build stronger foundations after chaos.

🇺🇸 Valor Circle
A deeply respected space for veterans and their families, addressing PTSD, service-related trauma, and the battle of returning home after war. Includes specialized companion courses for spouses, children, and caregivers.

🦸‍♀️ Stucco Squad & Camp Phoenix
These joyful, laughter-filled collections are built for children with special needs and medical complexities. With superhero-themed lessons, confidence badges, hospital prep guides, and humor-filled activities, we empower kids to feel strong, important, and proud to be exactly who they are.

🌐 Digital Defense: Staying Safe After a TPO
A unique collection created to protect those who have been granted protective orders, offering digital security guidance, online safety protocols, and emotional support after leaving abusive situations.

Founder Story – The Fire Behind the Smile
Dr. Victoria Cuore is more than a founder — she is the embodiment of the word “survivor.” After enduring years of unthinkable abuse, she nearly lost her life. The violence left her physically shattered — her face broken, her spine compromised, her arm eventually amputated. She lost her hearing and endured surgeries that most wouldn’t survive once, let alone more than 100 times. And yet, through it all, she chose not to crumble — she decided to rise.

She rebuilt her life from the ground up while raising a daughter with complex medical needs, who herself has undergone over 50 surgeries and once lived in the ICU for over five weeks. Victoria’s husband, Michael, a veteran and former law enforcement officer, stood beside her, not just as a partner but as a protector and believer in her vision.

Together, they have built A Contagious Smile with one rule: No one gets turned away because they can’t pay.

What Makes This Business Different
We fund everything ourselves. Victoria and Michael have never taken a paycheck from the organization. Every badge, workbook, podcast, and course is paid for out of their own pocket or through the support of donations and community partnerships.

We offer services no one else does. From trauma courses tailored specifically for tweens who’ve been hospitalized to digital safety lessons for protective order recipients, there is simply no other platform offering what A Contagious Smile offers.

We don’t just raise awareness — we raise people. Our goal is not to inform and leave. Our goal is to empower, equip, and walk beside every person who joins our community.

Our courses are written with emotion and action. They don’t just talk about surviving. They show you how to start again.

Notable Achievements
In 2025 alone, A Contagious Smile received:

🏆 Best Trauma Recovery and Advocacy Program in the U.S. – Evergreen Awards
🏆 Best Support Network for Special Needs Families – Global Healing Coalition
🏆 Best Transformative Trauma Advocate – Insider Weekly

Victoria has also been featured in Women on a Mission Magazine, interviewed by top podcasts, and honored by national parenting and advocacy panels.

The Impact of Donations
Donations are never about profit here — they are about people. Every dollar goes directly toward:

Sponsoring courses for individuals in crisis

Providing educational workbooks and activity kits to hospitalized children

Supporting trauma survivors who need a soft place to land

Creating scholarships for veterans and single moms

Building new, relevant, and real-world course content every single week

When you donate, you’re not supporting a business — you’re joining a mission.

Final Words
At A Contagious Smile, we know what it’s like to be counted out. To be told you’re too broken, too different, too much.
That’s why we’ve created a place where every scar is respected, every voice is heard, and every smile — no matter how shaky — is worth celebrating.

We don’t do this for attention.
We don’t do this for a check.
We do this because we remember what it felt like when no one showed up. And now, we show up for everyone.