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According to our survey, 82.3% of students at CT would rate our app above 4 stars. 94.1% of students think our app is helpful and 77.8% of students would use our app. Based on these results, we believe our app should be implemented because the majority of students would use our app.

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Who is in charge of making the final decision to incorporate your program/product?

Ms. Burdette is in charge of the final implementation of our design Challenge because she is the leader at our school. She is in charge of a lot of the decisions that are made at school. Ms.Burdette can help us kickstart our project and approve our idea.

Is there a company or an organization who could fund your product and make it a reality?

We know company’s like Wells Fargo, Providence Community Services etc... who are willing the fund our app project. The Providence Community Services is a mean tall health clinic who is known for investing in non-profit companys.

Is there a company or organization who could partner with CT to get your program running?

The investors listed above will help us get our app kickstarted. When we have money, we will actually be able to develop an app and have the freatured that we’ve designed.

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This is the survey that we sent out on the revised google document, we sent this out to many people at CT.

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To test our design again we edited our slideshow to include some of the changes the people in our last survey requested. We added the eyebleach  under Thinking right and added music under chill out tools.

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We changed the names based on who the letter was directed to from our list above.
Dear (insert investor here),

My name is (Name) and I am a student at Columbus Tustin Middle School. Along with some other students, I have noticed much of the student body has been impacted by mental health issues. In a survey we conducted, we found that 88.9% of our student body feels that children are affected by mental health issues.

Due to this alarmingly high figure, we were motivated to find a solution for this problem. After researching, we designed an app that could be used on the student’s iPads. Our group has worked extensively to create a prototype of an app to help students deal with issues such as anxiety, depression, and sleep deprivation. With all your help, we would like to create a fully functional app and grow our to accommodate for other difficulties students are facing.

We would like to invite you to hear more about our idea at the Columbus Tustin Middle School Open House night on Wednesday, April 3rd from 6:45 to 7:15 PM.

We hope to be able to collaborate with you in the future.

Sincerely,

(Name)

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Overall people thought that our app was very calming and useful for those suffering with stress and depression. They liked the sleek design and thought it was easy to use. Some improvements people would like are calm music to listen to under the “chill out tools” and being able to change the theme based on what they find calming. They would like to have a calming game or two and relaxing images. We want to add a section for feel good images like puppies and kittens to satisfy this request. We will add more chill out tools, which will have include calming music. We will revise our prototype by adding these things to our google slide. When we talk to our investors we will need help creating an actual app.

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https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate-responsibility/california-grant-guidelines/

Wells Fargo is willing to give certain California Grant's. What is needed is the general location of where you would like the money to be donated, such as Orange County in our case. These grants are directed towards educational programs. Our program we are trying to set up is education based due to the fact that it would improve students test scores and their attitudes.

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What do you think of our app prototype? Part 1

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What do you think of our app prototype? Part 1

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What do you think of our app prototype? Part 2

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What do you think of our app prototype? Part 2

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Our group originally wanted to create a website that would have essentially the same purpose as our app, but it was very complicated and we could not finish in time, so we used our slideshow from Prototype design with descriptions of what each of the app interfaces do and drawing of what they would look like, like in the Nordstrom app video, which we sent out to different people in a survey to ask for their opinion on the interfaces and what we should improve. We asked them if they thought the interfaces we had chosen would be helpful in their lives in an actual app form.

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Describe the Situation Without Your Prototype: Ciara

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Describe the Situation Without Your Prototype: Ciara

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Summary of Survey Results:

How are things at CT without our product/idea?

Students at CT are being affected by mental health. Over 35% of students interviewed said they know someone with a mental disability and over 85% of students interviewed said they think children are being affected by mental health issues in school. One student who responded explained that they suffer from depression and it “affects how I think and feel about myself and what I do”. When asked would they see a group of students their age, or high schoolers, they 77.8% responded yes. However only 67.9% said they would go to speak to a counselor. Students may have responded more positively to the option of students their age because these students may be able to bond or find something in common. When asked if they personally would participate in “a program to help students with grades making friends, and mental health?”, 85.7% of students said yes.

Many students believed the source of their mental suffering was from the amount of stress put on them. They believe that by having counselors to guide them, and allow them to express themselves may help with them speaking and opening up about their problems.

Right now over 30% of students said they would not speak to a counselor if they are suffering. However many said they would speak to students their age. Without our program in place various students do not feel they trust the counselors enough to fully open up about their problems. By bonding with students our age we have the opportunity to help students connect with one another and gain trust.

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Ways to deal with stress, breathing,relaxing,etc.

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Ways to cope with anxiety this screen explains it all.

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This feature allows for students to go uplifting thoughts that apply to different situations to improve their attitude.

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This feature of the app asks users to document how they are feeling. The journaling feature makes students write about their anxiety, which can help calm them down and put things in perspective. This is helpful for a student who wants to help recognize their anxiety symptoms and triggers to help prevent future attacks. Writing gives users an job and a calm down period to help learn about themselves and deal with tough feelings.

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1. Have a room for people who want to talk to someone rather than someone forced into it.

2. Involve parents more often. Offer to the child: Try and bring their parents in to classes with their child. They need more parent teacher conferences so the family is involved.

3. Develop an app that allows the student to speak anonymously if they need help, specific for CT, maybe connects to Ms. Tiffani or a group.

4. Create a comfortable and welcoming environment for after or during certain school hours. (Beanbags, couches, comfortable chairs, snacks,etc.) Have a very large room filled with items and colours. Make the child feel as if they have control of the situation by putting them near light switches, thermostats, and the door. Make sure students have a comfortable safe space if they don’t have one after school, maybe a teacher supervisor for help.

5. Play games or fun activities. This allows them to open up because kids push ideas they are holding up into their subconscious and when they open up they are so focused on a game the real truth comes out with no filter, making it easier to talk to them. Have video games and boardgames in the room. (Scrabble, sorry, fun board games,xbox, nintendo switch, etc.)

6. Have a schedule for students and when they can come in. However let them know they can come in whenever they need help. Maybe we need high school mentors, a group with same age students, counselor volunteer, or partners.

7. Discover what students are good at and like and constantly encourage them to keep going at whatever they like to do and give them support

8. Allow students to change what they want (allows for more control?)

9. Connect students with high school mentors or volunteer adults.

10. Create groups during tutorial that meet together every day to build friendship within your grade level.

11. Contact organizations for help in making a program for CT’s mental health

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Mental illnesses can affect students performance at school. Anxiety, depression, post-anxiety stress disorder, and low self-esteem can cause bigger problems such as suicide, other disorders, and self-harm. Self esteem in its entirety is a serious problem regarding the lack of confidence in oneself, which can result in rapidly decreasing mental health or unhealthy coping mechanisms. There are multiple ways to solve this problem that usually requires stepping out of your comfort zones. Two methods that exist to help troubled students include the Comprehensive Learning Support System and the All Walks of Life (AWOL) program, which both create a family for students and tries to incorporate family and community resources more efficiently. They try to support students from one grade to the next and get more involved with parents and learning. We need to try to make students feel more comfortable like these methods and connect them with community resources.

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Research on Interrogation Tactics-Aiden Allan

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Research on Interrogation Tactics-Aiden Allan

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Steps To A Conversation: Ciara Sweetman 

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Steps To A Conversation: Ciara Sweetman 

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Ryan’s Research

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Ryan’s Research

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Ryan’s Research

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Ryan’s Research

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Ryan’s research

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Types of Mental Health Annotated Article Pt. 3- Megan Escobar

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Types of Mental Health Annotated Article Pt. 3- Megan Escobar

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Types of Mental Health Annotated Article Pt. 2- Megan Escobar

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Types of Mental Health Annotated Article Pt. 2- Megan Escobar

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Types of Mental Health Annotated Article Pt. 1- Megan Escobar

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Types of Mental Health Annotated Article Pt. 1- Megan Escobar

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What Is Self-Esteem And What Can Be Done To Raise It?

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What Is Self-Esteem And What Can Be Done To Raise It?

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Norah Wang

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What Programs Exist to Help Troubled Students?

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What Programs Exist to Help Troubled Students?

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Anne Marie van der Hoek
https://www.edutopia.org/AWOL-intervention-at-risk-youth

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/02/at-risk-students

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Making Others Comfortable Pt.1: Ciara Sweetman 

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Making Others Comfortable Pt.1: Ciara Sweetman 

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Source:
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/5-easiest-ways-make-everyone-around-you-comfortable.html

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Making Other Feel Comfortable Pt.2: Ciara Sweetman 

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Making Other Feel Comfortable Pt.2: Ciara Sweetman 

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Source:
https://m.wikihow.com/Make-People-Feel-Comfortable-Around-You

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Research the Problem: (3 total pages each, with some way of showing understanding of article (such as annotations or notes + summary))

Different types of mental illness/disabilities - Megan

Peer Counseling Groups and existing groups to help students-What already exists? - Anne Marie

What types of spaces are most inviting and welcoming in different situations? What makes people feel welcome? How can we help them open up - Ciara

How to deal with depression/become mini therapist - Ryan

Self Esteem : how it is problematic later in life, what can be done to change it, etc.- Norah

How a child's household life affects their actions at school- Aiden or Ciara

Everyone - Observe people’s actions (how they act around certain peer  groups)

Survey students- Ryan, Megan, Norah

Interrogation strategies- Aiden

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Create a profile for your User:
Survey and/or interview people and collect information about your target user. These are the people who will be using your product or program, the people you are trying to help. This information will drive the development of your prototype. As a group, create one Google Doc and have all group members find answers to all of the following:

Who is going to use your product/program? Be as specific as possible.

Our product is being directed towards Columbus Tustin Middle School Students. More specifically students who are feeling that they need help or assistance but are not comfortable with asking adults for help.

We are geared toward students who are insecure, might feel alone, or struggle with opening up to others. They might be students who don’t have many friends or want to expand their friend group. We might address incoming sixth graders as a more advanced version of WEB.

Age:

We will target 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

How are they affected by the problem?
Students feel like they need to hide. They do not feel accepted and/or welcome.

What are their challenges: financial, social, health, mental, disabilities, etc.?
We are trying to address students who are at a personal disadvantage. These are students who want to improve their self esteem, grades, mental health and overall mental wellbeing and state of mind but don’t want to go to traditional therapy or do not have the resources to do so or do not know what they can do.