Set the Standard for School-Based Mental Health Support

All student information and data is stored in the US. 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 intocare— 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 already integrated with 85+ other systems and EHR’s. Our team can manage the process from start to finish, providing your team with a seamless integration into any system using a standards-based framework. Alternatively, we offer an open API that organizations can build against directly – either with an in-house IT team or in collaboration with a vendor. Either way, our team will support the process and work collaboratively to ensure that you’re set up for success. For more information, explore out Integrations Page.

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; (iii) customized messaging and emails (iiii) removal of all references to Greenspace; and (iv) custom terms of use and privacy policies.

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.

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.