Yourok Corp

YouROK Corp. was founded by Patrina Mack, a seasoned product development executive who has taken products from ideation to launch to IPO. She has brought her passion for adolescent mental health based on her lived experience raising her son to address the adolescent mental health crisis. The YouROK solution was built by a team of experts including psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, social workers, AI/ML global leaders, and an award winning game designer along with youth who informed what would make the solution engaging. The growing impact of pediatric mental health disorders is driving up costs for schools, children’s hospitals and health care delivery systems. Schools are struggling to help students recover academically due to difficulties with distance learning and the behavioral challenges cause by the pandemic. Emergency rooms are taxed with a growth in hospitalizations due to suicide. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States. For children being treated therapeutically it’s extremely difficult to measure progress and know when to stop therapy or when to change treatment. And that's if they can even find a therapist to treat them. YouROK provides the data to determine if therapeutic invention is needed, and for clinicians, additional insights between sessions. Using evidence-informed interventions gamified to capture youth engagement YouROK helps children develop the coping skills they need to prevent the onset of mental health challenges or better manage their condition between therapy sessions. YouROK's low cost, kid-friendly experience helps scale mental health services so kids improve their own emotional self-care and engage more effectively in life regardless of diagnosis. YouROK won the Impact Award from the American Psychiatric Association and is one of 19 companies included in One Mind's PsyberGuide (OMPG) Teen App Guide.