The mental health and wellness app offer digital tools to manage stress and build resilience – and combat the current unprecedented mental health crisis among children and youth in foster care.
Butterflly App Available to CLC Clients at No Cost!
The mental health and wellness app offer digital tools to manage stress and build resilience – and combat the current unprecedented mental health crisis among children and youth in foster care.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — CLC is excited to announce a new and innovative collaboration with Butterflly Health, a mental health and wellness app that delivers culturally responsive, intersectional, and evidence-based care for teens and adults experiencing stress, anxiety, and depression. The Butterflly app provides one-on-one texting with a mental health coach, peer support groups, mood tracking and assessment, and referrals to mental health providers in the community. Clients can easily download the Butterflly app on their smartphone, computer, or tablet.
Based in Los Angeles, Butterflly is an inventive behavioral health app providing provide trauma-informed, strength-based care.
The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy recently issued a new advisory highlighting the urgent need to address the mental health crisis among our nation’s youth – a crisis exacerbated by the pandemic and creating greater challenges for children and youth in foster care – 80% of whom enter the foster system already struggling with a significant mental health need.
“Mental health challenges in children and young adults are real and widespread. Even before the pandemic, an alarming number of young people struggled with feelings of helplessness and depression,” said Dr. Kevin Jervick, Ph.D., Mental Health Consultant and leader of CLC’s Mental Health Advocacy team. “The pandemic further disrupted their experiences at home, school, and in the community. The effect on their mental health has been devastating.”
“We’re proud to partner with Butterflly to increase accessibility to digital mental health tools and promote culturally competent wellness practices,” said CLC Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Phyllis Stricklan. “Together, we hope to support our young clients ease stress and build resilience.”
“Butterfflly is passionate about serving the mental health needs of underserved and BIPOC communities,” said Rodney Bell, Cofounder and COO of Butterflly. “Our all-in-one, mobile health app, focuses on individual and collective strength to help individuals reach their goals. We believe it is a great tool for CLC’s clients to build life-changing skills to reduce anxiety, be more resilient, and make self-care a priority.” This first-of-its kind collaboration with Butterflly reflects CLC’s ongoing commitment to addressing the mental health and wellness of our clients and their families and caregivers. CLC is honored to be Butterflly’s first community-based collaboration, and is grateful that our clients will have innovative telehealth services and digital self-care tools at their fingertips.
About Butterflly
Based in Los Angeles, Butterflly is an inventive behavioral health app providing provide trauma-informed, strength-based care. The app utilizes peer groups (collective care), individualized 1:1 coaching, and a culturally centered empowerment kit focused on intersectionality, trauma informed principles, and wellness to improve mental health outcomes for under resourced and diverse populations.
About Children’s Law Center of California
Children’s Law Center of California (CLC) provides skilled legal representation for abused and neglected children and youth under the jurisdiction of the dependency court. CLC is the largest children’s legal services organization in the nation, advocating for over 33,000 children and youth in foster care in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Placer counties each year
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