We take mental health awareness seriously
Corina
Marketing Specialist
Reading time: 3 min
Published: May 13, 2021
Key takeaways
- Mental illness is common: nearly one in five U.S. adults lives with one, and in the WHO European Region roughly one in six people live with a mental health condition.
- Wolfpack Digital supports team wellbeing through team events, yoga sessions, happiness checks, 1:1s, and no-questions-asked emergency days off.
- The company combats stigma through mentorship, hackathons, and financial and logistical support for mental health initiatives.
- Wolfpack Digital was the sole partner of the e-Mental Health Hackathon with Hive Innovation.
- In-house mental health apps include Pamble (gambling-addiction treatment) and Medusa (meditation in Romanian).
Mental illnesses are common across the world and come in different conditions, shapes, and degrees of severity. And yet, about 50% of major depressions are untreated, and up to 50% of chronic sick leaves in Europe are due to depression or anxiety.
While Wolfpack Digital provides well-rounded solutions and a quality framework for core product development, migrations to newer technologies, digital transformation, and support for innovation management to all our healthcare partners, mental health plays a huge role in our organisation's mission.
We are aware that people living with mental illness struggle with both their symptoms and the stereotypes and stigma surrounding common mental health misconceptions. Our goal is to support initiatives that reduce the impact of stigma, while also providing the digital tools that make support easier to reach.
By being aware, we mean we keep the facts in mind. Nearly one in five U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (57.8 million in 2021), according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and in the WHO European Region roughly one in six people live with a mental health condition, according to the World Health Organization.
This is why, every year, we set goals to make mental health treatment more accessible through mobile apps. We strive to support people who are stigmatised, through our digital products and within the health community, be it through hackathons, mentorship, or anything else we can do to combat stigma, educate, and make mental health solutions easier to reach through digitalisation.
As employers, local business leaders, and partners of many entrepreneurs, we have a duty to take mental health seriously:
part of the Wolfpack Digital team during a yoga session
The latest action we took was to be the sole partner and supporter of the e-Mental Health Hackathon, an online event that empowered undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in healthcare innovation to develop solutions for mental health care. Together with our partners, Hive Innovation, we designed this event to educate, inspire, mentor, and help university students tackle Europe's mental health challenges through digital solutions.
Because there are many therapy apps, suicide prevention apps, and anxiety management apps in the marketplaces now, but only a few that are truly accurate and helpful, we also wrote a guide on how to build a reliable suicide prevention app. It covers:
Mental health apps built by Wolfpack Digital
We have worked with many healthcare partners, and we have also developed our own apps through Wolfpack Digital Labs. Two of them are in the mental health vertical:
Build your mental health app with Wolfpack Digital
We have a team of tech experts who understand what a mental health app needs, whether it is for suicide prevention, anxiety management, meditation, or patient management and communication. Our CEO, Gina Lupu, also published 6 lessons for building great medical software that you can read if you have a health startup. If you are looking to digitalise any health service or part of the medical act, get in touch and let's talk.
