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New ‘Be SaskWell’ text-based service helping people with mental health post COVID-19 restrictions
Be SaskWell, is aimed at helping people with reopening anxieties post-COVID-19 restrictions.However, the app does help individuals looking for mental health supports beyond just the pandemic.Tracy Risling, an associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Regina and research lead with Be Saskwell, says many people are not aware of all the different mental health supports that are out there. The app, Risling said, is designed to help close that gap.The program runs over the span of 10 weeks and Risling says they just finished their 10-week pilot cycle and now the service has launched its first official 10-week cycle.