A recent paper on Connectd for Schools received the award for Best Paper at the 7th International Workshop on “Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and Intervention”, an adjunct workshop to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) 2022. The paper titled “Sensing school community needs: a co-designed, personalized mental health app for high school students, parents, and staff” highlighted the urgent need to scale proven approaches towards the mental health care of students in under-resourced, urban public school districts. Connectd for Schools uses an interactive platform to provide personalized resources to students and parents that can be customized by each school and district to meet their communities unique needs.
Read the full paper at https://ubicomp-mental-health.github.io/papers/2022/Barish-school.pdf