The EHS app is a digital storytelling platform

  • Telling your story and listening to the stories of others can help you reprocess traumatic moments in your life and help you on your healing journey

  • Anyone can learn how to change the way a traumatic event is perceived and reduce or eliminate the negative emotions associated with that event

  • Learning about Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can help you along your healing journey

Trauma and PTSD affect many, but certain populations — including displaced persons, women and children, victims of sexual violence, and military personnel — are especially vulnerable. Not only are mental healthcare resources lacking in these populations, but there is a marked stigma surrounding the notion of mental health, which inhibits help-seeking behavior. EHS aims to bridge this gap through our Digital Mental Healthcare Intervention (DHMI), with our app designed specifically for refugee, displaced, and military/veteran communities.

  • Our app gives you a library of helpful activities to relieve acute symptoms of PTSD

  • Stigma is one of the main causes to low rates of help-seeking behavior. Breaking down these barriers can increase the desire to get help

  • Knowing you are a part of a community of people who have experienced similar difficult situations and feel the way you do, can help you break down feelings of embarrassment or shame

A multi-module, user-friendly digital platform

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Dynamic Homescreen

Easily keep track of your progress and move freely between tasks

Activities Library

Access to evidence-based activities to help you remain grounded

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Weekly Modules

8 weekly modules to move through to help guide you through storytelling

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Anonymity

The app allows the user two options to remain anonymous

How our app can help you

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Extended Reach

Bringing mental healthcare services directly to underserved people and other vulnerable populations at a larger scale via a digitally delivered solution.

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Community Support

Throughout your app journey, you'll be connected with individuals who have shared similar experiences, reassuring you that you're not alone in your experience.

The integrated therapy and technology the app is built on allows mental healthcare to reach vulnerable populations in hard-to-access and underserved regions.

  • Bringing mental healthcare services directly to vulnerable populations at a larger scale

  • Based on an evidence-based, field-tested, short-term treatment for PTSD that is ideal for integration into this smartphone-based application

  • Provides various options for anonymity, and complies with data privacy laws, resulting in more access, an increase in help-seeking behavior, and positive mental health outcomes