Recognizing the immense pressure on America’s youth and the need to proactively monitor and support mental health, the team at Propel designed and took to market a new platform to empower students and schools to take command of their wellbeing. Called SchoolPulse, the app is designed to augment the suicide prevention mission campus-wide, while facilitating open, positive, and ongoing dialogue around mental health.

What is SchoolPulse?

SchoolPulse does exactly as the name implies: takes the pulse of how the student body is feeling and behaving. Through a combination of text prompts and on-demand support, SchoolPulse tracks anonymized data to measure trends in mood – providing an early detection system for issues or problems affecting students and peers.

In addition to delivering a suite of analytics for administrators to review, SchoolPulse also enables students to engage in conversation with a mental health professional whenever they’d like, day or night. The result is an empowered student body and:

• A safer campus, school, and classroom environment
• Increased student engagement and wellbeing
• Reduced risk of depression and self-harm

Best of all, SchoolPulse is eagerly adopted by students because it delivers directly to their phones and is anonymous, which allows anybody to get a little extra help or support when they feel they need it. From anxiety and personal relationships to trauma and grief, students today are burdened with mental health pressures. SchoolPulse was built to help.

Building custom apps for good.

Propel is proud to have been a part of this incredible tool that’s changing the way teachers and administrators support the mental health of their students and peers. Applications like this help solve real-world problems and can reach target audiences at scale. What app can we build for you? Our methodology of rapid, iterative prototyping means that we can deliver initial concepts quickly, while continuing to roll out robust enhancements and exciting new features with version releases.

What’s not to love? That’s the power of bringing together a great idea with the expert designers and app developers at Propel.