Base Campus: A Tool to Help College Students
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In 2021 I began working with Visiting Researcher, Nicole Trabold from the College of Health Sciences and Technology. We started this idea of creating an app for ways to help victims of domestic abuse. As Covid hit, that changed, and we shifted to where we saw an immediate need: college students dealing with stress and coping. We started Base Campus, an app developed with proven methods to help students identify stressors and how to deal with them. We were accepted into Embark’s NextCorp cohort and received $7000 for development.
The Problem:
Stress on College Campuses
College Students are distressed now more than ever and this has only been exacerbated by the pandemic. The National College Health Assessment data demonstrates a significant increase in students reported stress. College campuses are struggling to meet student needs and to fully engage students in better ways to manage stress. College students are emerging adults with developing brains and often lack skills in emotion regulation and impulse control. This coupled with the increases in reported stress, college students are dealing with subsequent symptoms of anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide leading to poor academic performance, delayed graduation, and withdrawing from school.
The Solution:
Base Campus. Where your journey to emotional wellness and coping begins is an intuitive, sophisticated digital tool using gamification strategies to motivate and reward use.
Base Campus helps college students develop and maintain healthy emotional states and build resilience as they navigate the complex demands of higher education through curated education, personalized feedback and skills. Base Campus incorporates evidence-based health psychology frameworks, assessments, and therapeutic strategies focused on improving college students’ ability to regulate emotions and impulses. Reframing how they react to stress and ultimately reducing stress, improving emotional intelligence, and improving their ability to function personally and academically under stressful situations.
Article about Base Campus in Rochester Business Journal: RBJ Women Focused on Health & Wellness