Do you or a loved one have a mental health challenge and need to talk to someone who’s been there? |
Tell us what you need help with, and we will pair you with a peer navigator you can talk to on the phone whose experience matches your needs. Peers are people who have managed a mental health challenge themselves, or family members who have helped a loved one do so.
Once you're connected to us, you can keep track of what’s important to you: Create a profile both during and after working with a navigator. Track your appointments, progress and goals to stay on your chosen path. |
OUR VISION FOR THE GPS
Imagine a technologically-enhanced mental health care “GPS road map” that helps you identify options for how to move from Point A to Point B at a time when a mental health crisis strikes. Few are prepared to make informed choices at such desperate times. The GPS service empowers decision-making by providing a live navigator – a compassionate, knowledgeable human being – to accompany you along your chosen path to recovery.
My Mental Health GPS is a non-profit navigational platform that will help families and individuals find appropriate, trustworthy care and guide them as they move through the system. It aims not just to facilitate treatment but to help people realize a greater sense of belonging, purpose, and hope. GPS Navigators are predominantly peers - that is, people who have managed mental health challenges themselves, or family members, and they are trained to provide support.
The GPS service will immediately shrink inequities in the system. Clients who have the ability to pay will subsidize the costs for those who cannot. There is no “us” and “them.” Everyone will get first-rate service.
INclude envisions a world where everyone in the U.S. with a mental health challenge will be connected with a GPS navigator. Our ten-year vision is for the service to be a central player in mental health: a platform that, by design, drives improvements in quality of care and curates a unique database of vetted services, tracking outcomes over time. The GPS would become a trusted voice in system reform as an independent, non-profit resource bound to no institution, insurer, corporation, or ideology. Nothing remotely like it currently exists.
To demonstrate its feasibility, we intend to pilot the GPS in Western North Carolina.
My Mental Health GPS is a non-profit navigational platform that will help families and individuals find appropriate, trustworthy care and guide them as they move through the system. It aims not just to facilitate treatment but to help people realize a greater sense of belonging, purpose, and hope. GPS Navigators are predominantly peers - that is, people who have managed mental health challenges themselves, or family members, and they are trained to provide support.
The GPS service will immediately shrink inequities in the system. Clients who have the ability to pay will subsidize the costs for those who cannot. There is no “us” and “them.” Everyone will get first-rate service.
INclude envisions a world where everyone in the U.S. with a mental health challenge will be connected with a GPS navigator. Our ten-year vision is for the service to be a central player in mental health: a platform that, by design, drives improvements in quality of care and curates a unique database of vetted services, tracking outcomes over time. The GPS would become a trusted voice in system reform as an independent, non-profit resource bound to no institution, insurer, corporation, or ideology. Nothing remotely like it currently exists.
To demonstrate its feasibility, we intend to pilot the GPS in Western North Carolina.
COVID-19
The program detailed here is needed more than ever. In the uncertainty and disorientation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, special attention must be paid to people who are vulnerable and gravely impacted by the crisis. COVID-19 is causing massive disruption, and people with mental health challenges, whether or not they get the virus, may be unable to get the care they need. We already know how COVID-19 is intensifying pre-existing inequalities, and this is especially the case for people with mental health conditions.
Currently, the operation of mental health services has been severely disrupted; some services have disappeared. This reduction in access to care will result in people with mental health challenges at high risk of homelessness, incarceration, or a return home while they are still extremely vulnerable, with acute and complex problems.
We cannot yet know what the longer-term mental health impact will be, given COVID-19's economic consequences. But this much is clear: it will be far-reaching and lasting. Now is the moment to invest in ensuring that mental health services are a core part of the COVID-19 response.
Currently, the operation of mental health services has been severely disrupted; some services have disappeared. This reduction in access to care will result in people with mental health challenges at high risk of homelessness, incarceration, or a return home while they are still extremely vulnerable, with acute and complex problems.
We cannot yet know what the longer-term mental health impact will be, given COVID-19's economic consequences. But this much is clear: it will be far-reaching and lasting. Now is the moment to invest in ensuring that mental health services are a core part of the COVID-19 response.