BeMe (teen health app)
Script error: No such module "Draft topics". Script error: No such module "AfC topic".
BeMe is a teen mental health mobile application co-founded by Dr. Nicki Tessler and Mandeep Dhillon in 2021 under the company name BeMe Health.[1]
The main features of the app, according to the app's description in the App Store, BeMe offers teens mental health content, coaching[2], self-guided activities and telehealth support. To better support digitally native teens around their emotional and behavioral health, BeMe established a Teen Advisory Board to collect insights from representative teenagers on the way they want to be engaged and helped.
The BeMe app was first released in 2022 on both Google Play and the App Store.
Partnerships[edit]
In October 2021, BeMe announced that they had raised $7 million in seed funding[3] from Polaris Partners and Flare Capital Partners. In March 2022, BeMe announced a $1.4 million dollar investment from the California Health Care Foundation to support teen mental health and Spanish-language content for Latino/a teens.
On November 1, 2021, BeMe announced a partnership[4] with Molina Healthcare of California to provide Molina Medi-Cal members, ages 13 to 19, with access to digital tools, content, and live coaching support.
In March 2023, BeMe announced[5] that they had entered a partnership with CareSource Indiana to provide teens enrolled in Indiana’s Hoosier Healthwise coverage access to the BeMe app's digital mental health support and interventions.
Stanford Evaluation (2023)[edit]
In collaboration with Stanford University, the app recorded the engagement and outcomes of roughly 13,000 users. The study found that the BeMe app[6] has a positive impact[7] on young people's lives. The study was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research mHealth and uHealth[8]. It involved approximately 13,000 users and was conducted in collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine.
References[edit]
- ↑ Jessica, Bursztynsky (June 7, 2023). "BeMe raises more money in its fight against the teen mental health crisis". FastCompany.
- ↑ Plescia, Marissa (2023-08-29). "Study On Teen Mental Health App Shows High Engagement, Positive Impact". MedCity News. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ "BeMe Health scores $7M for teen mental health app". MobiHealth News. November 5, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
- ↑ "Molina Healthcare of California Partners with BeMe Health to Offer Mental Health Support App for Teen Members". www.businesswire.com. 2022-11-01. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ CareSource (2023-03-13). "BeMe teams up with CareSource to provide digital mental health support for teens". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ Burky, Annie (August 30, 2023). "How behavioral health app BeMe is aiming to connect with teens".
- ↑ Goldstein, Avram (2023-08-25). "BeMe: A Digital Lifeline for Teens with Mental Health Struggles". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ Prochaska, Judith J.; Wang, Yixin; Bowdring, Molly A.; Chieng, Amy; Chaudhary, Neha P.; Ramo, Danielle E. (2023-08-28). "Acceptability and Utility of a Smartphone App to Support Adolescent Mental Health (BeMe): Program Evaluation Study". JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 11 (1): e47183. doi:10.2196/47183. PMC 10495844 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 37639293 Check|pmid=value (help).
This article "BeMe (teen health app)" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:BeMe (teen health app). Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
