Norwich, CT – UCFS Healthcare is pleased to offer our clients and staff the resources provided by myStrength. myStrength Inc. is a recognized leader in digital behavioral health and utilizes a model which enhances traditional care models. myStrength empowers clients with innovative self-care resources to manage and overcome challenges with a multitude of diagnoses including depression, anxiety, stress, substance use, chronic pain and sleep. * * * About UCFSUCFS Announces Partnership with myStrength to Provide Behavioral Health Services through Innovative Online Resource
Cara Westcott, COO of UCFS stated: “UCFS is excited to partner with myStrength in order to help our clinicians extend our capacity beyond the walls of our health centers by offering web-based and mobile self-help resources to our clients and staff. Our clinicians will be able to help our clients manage their diagnosis in between therapy visits and after therapy ends through interactive coping tools, weekly action plans, daily inspiration and step-by-step learning modules. These digital resources are evidenced-based and offered through a HIPAA compliant platform.”
“We’re excited to partner with UCFS and help expand their current care models with the use of patient-directed technologies”, said Scott Cousino, CEO of myStrength. “UCFS is the first to launch myStrength in Connecticut and we look forward to working together to achieve a measurable impact in the way technology can transform mental health services to those in need.”
United Community and Family Services (UCFS) is a community health organization that provides quality medical, dental, behavioral health, and eldercare services to over 19,000 patients each year. Care is provided regardless of insurance coverage or a person’s ability to pay. Unlike hospital emergency rooms or walk-in clinics, UCFS offers a health care home where clients receive affordable, high quality, medical, dental and behavioral health services from specialized staff at convenient locations across eastern Connecticut. For more information on UCFS please visit our website at ucfshealthcare.org.
About myStrength
myStrength, Inc. is a recognized leader in digital behavioral health. myStrength greatly enhances traditional care models, while addressing issues of cost, lack of access, and stigma, to deliver mental health and well-being resources at scale. Our platform targets the most prevalent and costly behavioral health conditions - empowering consumers with innovative self-care resources to manage and overcome challenges with depression, anxiety, stress, substance use disorder, chronic pain and sleep. myStrength’s evidence-based resources offer digital interactive exercises, self-care modules and daily wellness inspiration, which is personalized to each user. myStrength collaborates with more than 150 health plans, integrated health systems, EAPs, disease management providers, managed and community behavioral health providers, strategic alliances, ACOs and FQHCs.
