Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 focuses on loneliness. This has clearly been a growing area of concern since the coronavirus pandemic hit. And it’s not just adults affected; children and young adults are suffering as well. Yet they’re often misunderstood and don’t feel heard by a parent, caregiver or teacher.
8.5% of US children aged 2-17 are diagnosed with anxiety
between 2018-2019 with a greater proportion of these being young girls according to the US Health Resources and Services Administration.
We know young people enjoy using phones but that social media can have damaging effects such as loss of sleep and low self esteem. It’s not a low level risk as there is a marked correlation between behavioral changes and childhood depression. You can read more about the report from the CDC (the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention here)
To embrace the love of using the phone as both a toy and a tool, we invite our younger community to choose an app which has their best interests embedded within the design.
Tech for good
Technology is an intrinsic part of most of our daily lives so it’s time to make it work harder for us to enable our wellbeing. We can empower ourselves and our young people to take some control over how we are using our phones and how we can benefit our daily lives. You can have real-time, personal support, available in your pocket.
Designed with the ease of use, safety and privacy of children and young adults to use on Apple store here.
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