States stopped encouraging. They started requiring.
We track every mandate that touches your state and keep the program compliant as they move, so a change in the law is our problem to solve rather than a letter that lands on a superintendent's desk.
See What Your State Requires ›of US public schools require mental health screening. Nearly seven in ten do not.
principals say it's hard or very hard to ensure students receive appropriate care.
of US youth aged 12 to 17 with major depression receive no mental health treatment at all.
Three separate measures, not three stages of one funnel. Screening closes the first. The follow-up protocol and the resource list close the second and third.
Distress that nobody catches doesn't stay still.
Untreated depression and crisis show up as self-harm, as substance use, and as incidents that reach other people in the building. Districts already carry this as a safety responsibility. Screening is how you find it while it is still a counselor's problem rather than an emergency.
A whole district. One morning.
This is the part districts don't believe until they watch it. Here's the clock, from the buses to the counselor's list, on a single campus.
Nothing on the roster is a name.
The school uploads student IDs, or we generate them. The key that turns an ID back into a student stays with the school and never reaches us, which is how the FERPA question gets answered before anyone has to ask it.
The link goes out to first period.
Students, parents or teachers, whichever the district approved, on a phone or a tablet or a shared cart. Nothing to install and no account to make. About ten minutes, inside one class period.
Scored before the bell.
Severity band and flagged items attach to the ID the moment it's submitted. Anything started and not finished shows in Reminders, so nobody chases paper around a building.
By ten, the counselor is working a list.
Reports go to the people the district named and to nobody else. The school matches IDs to students on its own side. Our job stops at the counselor by design, and the resource list goes home to families.
We never learn their names.
Students are IDs to us and students to you, and the key that connects the two never leaves your building. Everything else about the program follows from that one decision.
The calendar we hand a superintendent.
Enrollment falls every year and counselors are outnumbered. A screening program that only happens once is a line item. One that runs on the year is a program, and this is the one we're accountable to.
Two hours your teachers already owe somebody.
Mental health, crisis intervention, de-escalation and identification, delivered by people trained in the environments we serve. It counts toward continuing-education hours, which is half the reason districts say yes.
The part a district can't run on its own.
Parent involvement is the thing every district wants and almost none can staff. Free mental health courses, paid parenting pathways and court-approved classes, delivered by us and surfaced to families after a screening rather than mailed into a void.
Five steps from signature to first morning.
Four of them happen once. After that the year runs on the calendar above and the work is a link and a list.
The district signs
You tell us who receives reports and who acts on them. Consent or opt-out runs the way your district already does it, and it's collected before a single link goes out.
The roster loads
Student IDs by grade, class or campus. No names, ever. If a school has no ID scheme we generate one and hand the district the key.
The screeners are approved
Chosen by age band so only valid instruments appear, and for the right respondent: the student, the parent, or the teacher about the student.
Staff training
Two hours before anyone screens, so the adults in the building know what a flag means and what happens next.
The first morning runs
Link, tablet cart or phone. A campus inside one period, a district inside a week, and a population report at the end of it.
The ones a district asks in the first meeting.
If yours isn't here, ask us directly and you'll get a straight answer rather than a brochure.
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Do you hold student data?
We hold IDs and results. No names, no dates of birth, no addresses. The key that turns an ID back into a student sits with the district and is written into the contract, which means we're not holding identifiable student data at all.
How does consent work?
It runs the way your district already runs it, active consent or passive opt-out, collected by you before a link goes out. We build the screening window around your process rather than asking you to change it. We provide the consent forms in English and Spanish, and we work with either regime, opt-in or opt-out, depending on what your state requires.
Who sees a result?
The people the district names, and nobody else. Parents see their own child only. Results are non-diagnostic and become a record only when the school puts them into play.
What happens when a screen is elevated?
The result is flagged at scoring with the items that triggered it and goes to the person you named. Who that is, how fast they're told, and what they do next is written into your protocol before go-live rather than decided in the moment. Instruments that carry a suicidal ideation item are treated differently: any endorsement triggers review, whatever the total score says.
Can we screen teachers too?
Yes, and they're two different things. Teachers rating students is part of the student flow. Teachers screened about their own wellbeing is employee health data, kept on a separate footing with its own instruments and its own reporting.
What does it cost?
It depends on enrollment, instruments and how much training you want. Tell us your headcount and we'll give you a straight number.
