Set the Standard for School-Based Mental Health Support

All student information and data is stored in Canada. Greenspace works with a secure cloud hosting provider called Aptible, which is specifically designed to securely manage and store confidential and highly sensitive healthcare information. Aptible has been tested and certified by security and privacy professionals from Kaiser Permanente, MD Anderson, UnitedHealth Group, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and many others. In addition, Aptible is certified for compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HITRUST CSF.

Absolutely. Each time you create an Account, you can set permissions applicable to that specific user. This means that each admin, teacher, student, provider, clinician, caregiver or otherwise can be granted the exact permissions and visibility to match their needs. That said, it is important to note that students and caregivers do not need an account in order to submit assessments.

Yes. Greenspace can build custom assessments as needed. Whether they’re for screening, baselines assessment, or ongoing data collection— we will work with your team to ensure you can collect all of the data and insights necessary for your school and reporting needs.

Yes! Our Intake Platform is design to work seamlessly alongside our Measurement platform. You can efficiently capture all information needed from participants, establish benchmarks for screening, and immediately onboard students into care—reducing and automating repetitive administrative tasks for your team. Review, filter, and prioritize your intake list based on student-completed assessments, and any other relevant information that you choose to collect.

Yes. Greenspace is designed to integrate with a range of different school-based systems. Integrations can enable secure data exchange between Greenspace and systems such as EHRs, student information systems (SIS), or other digital care platforms used by school-based mental health teams.

These integrations help streamline workflows by allowing student data, assessment schedules, and outcomes information to move between systems automatically. This reduces the need for duplicate data entry and helps ensure that providers have the information they need within their existing workflows

Greenspace currently integrates with over 85 EHR/EMRs and offers an open API to integrate with almost any system. Schedule a call with our implementation specialists to learn how to seamlessly integrate MBC into your existing workflow.

Students can receive assessments via email or SMS and can complete assessments on their phone, desktop, tablet or using our Kiosk function in person. Both administrators and participants can choose to customize the frequency and delivery date/time of assessments to fit students preferred schedule or what is required by your programs.

Absolutely! The platform can be custom branded to reflect your institutions identity. Custom branding includes, (i) a custom web address; (ii) inclusion of your organization’s logo and colour scheme; (iii) custom student resources; (iv) customized messaging and emails (v) removal of all references to Greenspace; and (vi) custom terms of use and privacy policies.

Schools using Greenspace can access aggregated mental health data across classrooms, grades, programs, or districts. By analyzing trends in student wellbeing, symptom severity, and risk indicators, school leaders and support teams can better understand the mental health needs of their student population. These insights can help inform targeted wellness initiatives, prevention programs, and early-intervention strategies, ensuring resources are directed where they will have the greatest impact.

Schools and program administrators can use Measurement-Based Care data to support Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), powering Tier 1 universal wellness initiatives, targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports to groups or schools where data shows higher needs, and monitoring the impact of new programs based on real-time student feedback.

Learn more about how Greenspace can support MTSS.

Greenspace provides implementation support, onboarding, and training to help school mental health teams confidently integrate Measurement-Based Care into their practice. This includes guidance on selecting appropriate assessments, setting up assessment schedules, interpreting results, and incorporating outcomes data into conversations with students. Training also addresses best practices for data privacy, consent processes, and ethical use of mental health assessments in school settings. In addition, Greenspace works with school administrators and mental health leaders to ensure the platform aligns with existing student support frameworks and workflows.

Our website offers a range of resources to help providers and organizations implement MBC effectively. Check out the Yale MBC Collective Knowledge Hub for practical strategies from renowned psychologists, the Assessments Hub for guidance on interpreting specific measures, and educational articles for more information on all things MBC.

Greenspace offers access to a wide range of validated mental health and wellbeing assessments designed for children, adolescents, and young adults.

Schools can select age-appropriate measures that assess areas such as anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, functioning, or overall wellbeing. Some assessments can also incorporate caregiver or teacher-reported measures, which can provide additional perspective when working with younger students. Greenspace offers flexible assessment delivery to complete measures when most convenient, with the option to complete measures at home, on their own, or during sessions led by a provider.

Yes. Greenspace is designed to complement the broader ecosystem of student support services, including counseling programs, school psychologists, and external mental health partners.

By providing structured outcomes data and progress tracking, the platform can help support coordination between different members of a student support team. This can be particularly helpful when multiple professionals are involved in a student’s care, helping ensure everyone has visibility into progress and needs while respecting privacy and role-based access.

Schedule a call with an implementation specialist to explore how Greenspace can seamlessly integrate with your existing workflows.

Greenspace can help schools implement and evaluate Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) by providing structured measurement tools that track student wellbeing across different levels of intervention.

MTSS is an evidence-based framework used in schools to create a continuum of mental health support, allowing educators and mental health professionals to identify challenges early, assess the level of need, and deliver interventions that match each student’s level of support.

Within an MTSS framework:

• Tier 1 programs focus on universal prevention and school-wide wellbeing initiatives.
• Tier 2 interventions provide targeted support for students who may be experiencing emerging challenges.
• Tier 3 interventions involve more individualized mental health support.

Greenspace supports MTSS implementation by providing:

• Regular student assessments to monitor wellbeing and identify emerging concerns
• Data-informed insights that help schools determine which students may benefit from additional support
• Aggregated reporting to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and interventions
• Population-level analytics that help administrators understand trends across student groups

By combining Measurement-Based Care with population-level insights, Greenspace enables schools to make data-informed decisions about prevention, early intervention, and individualized care, helping ensure students receive the right level of support at the right time.

Yes. By collecting standardized assessments at regular intervals, Greenspace can help school mental health teams identify students whose responses may indicate elevated symptoms, worsening wellbeing, or other indicators of concern. This can help counsellors and support staff intervene earlier and ensure students receive appropriate support before challenges escalate.

Alerts and insights can be configured to align with a school’s internal protocols and student support processes.

Yes. Greenspace can support universal mental health screening by enabling schools to administer standardized wellbeing assessments to large student populations in a secure and scalable way.

Through digital assessments, schools can collect structured information about student wellbeing, symptoms, or risk indicators. These assessments can be delivered automatically through secure links and completed on a phone, tablet, or computer, making it easier for schools to gather insights across classrooms, grades, or entire districts.

School Mental Health Ontario (SMHO) is Ontario’s Ministry of Education’s implementation partner for student mental health, responsible for providing evidence-informed mental health services implementation support to school districts across the province of Ontario, Canada. With evidence-based strategies and services at the core of their work, they are helping to drive improved care and resources, alongside the Ministry of Education, for both English and French school districts.

In order to do so most effectively, they’ve set the foundation for service delivery through a multi-tiered system of support and a detailed guide for schools to improve processes, roles, service coordination, and the quality of available services. Importantly, SMHO highlights ‘evidence and monitoring’ as a foundational component for “effective, scalable, and sustainable school mental health practice.” Their reasoning for this mandate is clear and relies heavily on the well-researched benefits of Measurement-Based Care:

“Sound implementation and outcome indicators, and measurement tools that inform needs and monitor uptake and effectiveness, are essential for making decisions in supporting student mental health. Continuous quality improvement cycles with progress monitoring help in understanding the success of implementation, of both outcome and process indicators.”

We’re excited to be supporting six school boards across the province of Ontario, as they follow SMHO recommendations to implement Measurement-Based Care and enhance the quality of care they deliver to their students.

Learn more about the momentum for school-based mental health in Ontario and North America more broadly here.

There is no right or wrong way to choose the school mental health questionnaires you provide to students. Many schools, school boards, and districts have specific measures that are required for reporting, while others choose to assign a set of assessments based on the challenges of their specific populations, programs, or groups.

What’s important is ensuring that the mental health questionnaires you choose are measuring what’s important to your students and clinical team, so you can properly monitor and understand the challenges clients are facing and how they are progressing throughout care.

As an example, many of the schools Greenspace is partnered with use generalized questionnaires for anxiety (GAD-7) and depression (PHQ-9). They also leverage questionnaires specific to children and youth, like the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC-17), the Children’s Hope Scale (CHS) and measures for child ADHD (SNAP IV 26) and child anxiety and depression (RCADS-25).

For more information on choosing school mental health questionnaires or to see a list of assessments available on Greenspace, visit our Assessments Hub.