Send secure mental wellbeing check-ins, link people to support and produce transparent wellbeing impact reports.

<aside> <img src="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" alt="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" width="40px" /> Why use Skodel in schools and universities

Education institutions need to create safe places to learn and grow, and build trust in their commitment to this. Mental health issues disrupt this. Sending check-ins linked to wellbeing support helps prevent or resolve issues early and the data informs positive strategic changes. The act of checking in builds trust from parents, students and the wider community in the organisation’s genuine commitment to wellbeing.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" alt="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" width="40px" /> Potential use cases

• Early identification and prevention of issues
• Produce transparent wellbeing reports for parents and the wider community
• Use wellbeing data to inform wellbeing strategy
• Report on the impact of your changes
• Include wellbeing data in community noticeboards and newsletters to drive engagement in wellbeing
• Multilingual wellbeing support for diverse student groups
• Create positive culture change by prioritising wellbeing
• A more meaningful and authentic internal feedback process focused on wellbeing </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/chat-user_red.svg" alt="/icons/chat-user_red.svg" width="40px" /> Example of Skodel in action

• Identification: A private and safe space that encourages people to share how things are going.

• Control measures: An immediate response in place for everyone.

• Alerts to assess and triage risks: Safety and risk managers will be notified of and can triage concerns and maintain a digital audit trail of these concerns.

• Reporting tools: Clear trend and group reporting to highlight areas of concern and areas that are working well.

• Value: Early identification and resolution of risks via a safe and auditable process. </aside>

Key considerations in wellbeing and mental health software

1. Security: Coppa and Ferpa certified, and passed individual security assessments from education institutions such the Victorian DoE. Skodel is also currently undertaking the ST4S assessment.
2. Diversity and multilingual capability: Skodel’s app can be translated into multiple languages and customised to support cognitively diverse, neurodiverse, older and younger students.
3. Integration capability: Integrates with key LMS, SIS and communication platforms like Teams. SSO capabilities with Google and Microsoft.
4. Evidence based: Co-designed alongside Andrew Fuller who is one of Australia’s leading clinical psychologists for family, schools and young people. He is also a Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne.
5. Liability collecting sensitive data: Skodel ensures sensitive issues are responded to appropriately and support is documented to mitigate liability risks. Works with recognised legal and people and risk teams to support its approach.
6. Existing internal survey systems: Are you using other internal feedback surveys? It’s worth assessing where you want to focus your internal survey efforts, what you want to achieve with these and if Skodel can fit in or replace existing approaches. We make the case for having an internal feedback system focused on wellbeing in this article here.

Getting started

1. Strategy session with leadership - define roles and responsibilities, key outcomes, actions to take and metrics to track.
2. Technical setup - upload users via a CSV and/or carry out necessary integrations.
3. Introduction - send an email out to all people introducing Skodel (Skodel has email templates for you).

🏃🏽 Interested in getting started?

Email [email protected] to arrange a discovery call