UCSF uses social networks to deliver mental healthcare

Dive Insight:

Caregivers at the Young Adult and Family Center use the social networks to reach veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, help high school and college students with resiliency skills and to help underserved youth and their families overcome trauma. 

Dr. Norman, who is also the founder and director of the center, said the private social networks "build longitudinal relationships with our patients and their families to extend care beyond the traditional points of service into the home, school, and community, and for the first time, to integrate behavioral health and the social context of patient care within chronic disease care programs." 

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/ucsf-uses-social-networks-to-deliver-mental-healthcare/414058/