Mental Health
Screen, counsel, and follow up, with continuity of care between every session.
The Challenge
Mental health teams face rising demand while access and continuity of care remain hard to sustain.
Stigma and sensitive data
Private records demand careful, confidential handling.
Training non-specialist workers
Lay counselors deliver care with limited clinical background.
Following structured protocols
Screening and therapy steps must be applied consistently.
CommCare for Mental Health Programs
Identify mental health needs using validated tools
- Administer PHQ-9 and GAD-7 with automatic scoring
- Get an instant severity banner and risk flag
- Generate referrals for moderate and high-risk cases
Deliver counseling and track progress over time
- Guide counselors through each session with a protocol checklist
- Track PHQ-9 against baseline to see who is improving
- Run a safety check and book the next session every visit
Support lay counselors with quality assurance
- See caseloads, sessions, and fidelity scores per counselor
- Flag overdue supervision before quality slips
- Maintain clinical quality as task-shifted teams scale
Build the evidence base to sustain your program
- Track symptom reduction and recovery across every site
- Break outcomes down by condition and screening tool
- Export clean datasets for funders and research partners
Want to see how this would work for your mental health program?
Talk to our teamMental health programs built on CommCare
From community mental health in immigrant populations to university-backed clinical research, here’s what mental health programs have shipped on the platform.
Colorado Behavioral Health Administration: a centralized statewide MAT registry
Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration partnered with Dimagi to build a centralized Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) registry on CommCare, replacing a fragmented intake process and cutting the time from a client arriving at a clinic to receiving services from days down to minutes.
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Strengthening mental health services with digital solutions
How Dimagi helps organizations scale accessible, cost-effective mental health services across the WHO Optimal Mix of Services pyramid.
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Dr. Vikram Patel: reimagining global mental healthcare with a person-centered, digitally-enabled approach
The Sangath co-founder and Harvard professor joins the High-Impact Growth podcast on scaling mental healthcare through frontline workers and technology.
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Making Resilience Resonate
A user-centered guide to adapting, translating, and testing the Resilience Message Program so it resonates with the health workers who receive it.
Read the toolkitWellMe: a wellbeing app for frontline workers
Mental health programs depend on the people delivering them. WellMe is a packaged CommCare application that helps Frontline Workers build healthy routines for self-care, stress management, and staying connected.
Explore WellMe
Stepped mental health care, across every use case.
Use the power of CommCare to run mental health programs end to end, across every use case.
One platform, every workflow.
From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your mental health program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.
- No-code workflows for frontline teams
- Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
- Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting