Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — A brand new public well being mission meant to enhance entry to disaster companies will save lives, in line with Monroe County Government Adam Bello.
The Monroe Psychological Well being app supplies customers with wellness data, together with direct entry to emergency disaster contacts, places of close by assist companies and suicide prevention data.
“A rising variety of folks know or love somebody experiencing challenges with psychological well being, dependancy or different private crises,” Bello mentioned. “When these points come up, there is no such thing as a time to waste. And all of it begins with this. I’m telling you proper now, this app goes to avoid wasting lives.”
Greater than 43,000 folks obtained psychological well being companies at supplier businesses in Monroe County, in line with the most up-to-date information.
The hope is that this new app from the Monroe County Workplace of Psychological Well being will make entry to these companies simpler.
“The brand new app brings all kinds of companies to at least one place, direct entry to emergency disaster companies, group packages for behavioral well being, vocational assist, respite, household assist, self-help and extra,” Bello defined.
The applying will be downloaded on Apple and Android units.
“I can’t inform you what number of youth have cell telephones,” mentioned April Aycock, Monroe County’s director for the Workplace of Psychological Well being. “To know that you’ve an app that every one you must do is go to, not solely is it a useful resource for them, however it’s a useful resource for his or her buddies, in addition to relations who could also be struggling,”
The app can join customers in disaster to educated counselors 24/7.
“Complicated issues, in addition to easy on a regular basis issues that all of us expertise — nervousness and despair — you, proper at your fingertips within the app, are capable of get related to the folks that may provide the assist and assist you want,” mentioned Jen Lake, president and CEO for Goodwill of the Finger Lakes. “In in the present day’s world, most of us usually are not feeling OK a good quantity of the time, so (we’re) form of normalizing that, however constructed proper into the app.”
To obtain the app, Apple customers ought to click on right here, and Android customers ought to click on right here.
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