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Tennessee Tech has another online tool to help promote mental health for its students.
Assistant Director of Counseling Services Dr. Christina Mick said the app WellTrack helps monitor day-to-day wellness, provides mental health screening and mood trackers. Mick said using WellTrack is about Tech continuing to fill any remaining gaps and preventing mental health crises.
“There’s a direct link, a button on there they can hit, takes them right to a crisis counselor,” Mick said. “We can share that with our clients. So, if I get an alert that a student’s having a low-mood, I can just send them an email, call them or send them a Zoom link and check in on them.”
Mick said they have received a positive response to adding the app, and said she believes students want these virtual apps to stay. She said with the current student generation, virtual communication fits their comfort level.
“Even prior to COVID, we had been researching different ways to meet the students where they are,” Mick said. “They are very tech savvy and that’s kind of all they’ve known since they were born.”
Mick said they can also keep in contact with students on break, as long as they are still in Tennessee. She said after reaching out to other universities, trend seemed to be moving towards WellTrack.
“We were researching different platforms and talking to different companies, we had been researching WellTrack for sometime,” Mick said. “I had called different universities in the state of Tennessee and asked them what they were using and what they liked. Time and time again, I had heard WellTrack.”
Mick said that WellTrack integrates with the school’s after-hours crisis hotline.
