The Problem:

<aside> 🖊️ Healthy habit formation is an essential step in maintaining our physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing. A number of factors keep such wellbeing out of reach for those with mental illness. Finding personalized resources and support systems is crucial to managing their health, but the resources that currently exist are catered more to the general population and fail to provide the individual and community support that is so vital to healthy habit formation.

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Our Solution:

<aside> 🖊️ PeerTECH is a platform that empowers individuals with mental illness to create and maintain healthy habits in a simple, accessible, and cohesive manner. This solution includes both an app and a website: the mobile app allows a Service User to create wellness goals, take surveys, access educational resources, and chat with a Peer Support Specialist. These trained peers have mental health experience, and form lasting peer support communities as they mentor Service Users. Group Admins can use the website to monitor peer mentoring and user progress, and to develop resources.

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The Impact:

<aside> 🖊️ With learning resources, community support, and personal peer mentoring, PeerTECH empowers individuals with severe mental illnesses to embrace healthy habits and lifestyles, bringing hope and health back into their lives.

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