Even for adults, let alone kids
Expensive and time consuming
Crises don’t make appointments
Immersive, Engaging, &
Non-Judgmental
Controlled
&
Repeatable
Available
On-Demand
Global Mental Health Disorders
Estimated Annual Economic Costs by 2030
Est. Annual Growth In VR Healthcare
As the impact from the pandemic reverberates through our communities, the consequences on mental health exacerbate what was an already-worsening problem. Mental health, heat migration, particularly for women, children and teens, runs a gamut of challenges, including geographical limitations, lack of access, lack of provider choice, high expense, fear of judgement, and stigma associated with care. And perhaps at no other time has technology been so crucial to our journey forward as a civilization, lending us the ability to meaningfully participate, connect with others, and learn in new ways – all within the virtual space and safely socially distanced. The proposed Tech for Good collaboration would effectively join MTL’s championing web and smartphone resource, education and service application ComingHome.app as the Client Relationship Management (CRM) platform to a pioneering Virtual Reality (VR)-based therapy system known as VR Eval. Integration of these two technologies with Coming Home as the CRM system is epic. VR Eval consists of comprehensive evaluation, assessment, education, and therapy tools for professional mental health and human services providers who work with victims of trauma, heat migration and other traumas. A custom-built, fully immersive platform, VR Eval leverages the many empirically proven advantages intrinsic to the immersive technology of VR to bring gold-standard trauma-focused practices into the 21st century, providing clinicians, first responders, law enforcement, and other human services professionals with an incredibly powerful new platform to support trauma victims from the moment of first contact through the recovery and healing process. By applying the most state-of-the-art research on human-centered user experience and design for digital therapeutics to a virtual world created with the specific needs of trauma victims and their professional supporters and advocates in mind, VR Eval stands to revolutionize trauma-informed care and dramatically improve long-term outcomes for victims of human trafficking, sexual assault, domestic violence, military combat trauma, and beyond. Adding robust client relationship management to the breadth of the VR Eval solution set, is “Coming Home” (cominghome.app), spearheaded by MTL’s Founder and CEO Dr. Brook Parker-Bello. Coming Home is the first secure, interactive mobile application and adaptable online mentoring case management system for victims and others who need life coaching, mentorship, education and supportive resources globally