Soluna app provides mental health support for teens

Published on August 19, 2024

According to the CDC, our nation’s youth are experiencing a mental health crisis. Too many adolescents and young adults are feeling anxious, sad and hopeless, and the majority never get help. 

As part of the state’s CalHOPE program, regardless of insurance coverage, California residents can now get free one-on-one mental health support with a live coach, a multimedia resource library, wellness exercises, and peer communities moderated by trained behavioral health professionals to ensure the appropriateness of content and the safety of all users, via two new web and app-based platforms. 

Two new apps can help

Soluna is a free app designed for teens and young adults ages 13-25.

BrightLife Kids is for parents (and caregivers) with kids ages 0-12. 

Both platforms offer:

• Live one-on-one sessions with qualified behavioral health coaches in English and Spanish. 
• Telephone coaching in all 19 Medi-Cal threshold languages. 
• Age-tailored educational resources like articles, videos, podcasts, and stories. 
• Stress-management tools and clinically validated assessments to understand and monitor behavioral health over time.

Soluna and BrightLife Kids were designed with input from more than 1,000 unique and diverse stakeholders and launched as part of the CalHOPE program.

They complement existing services offered by health plans, counties and schools by providing additional care options and resources.