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Closegap
Closegap Core offers K-12 schools a free mental health check-in for students that provides school staff with real-time data to intervene on student needs. Closegap Premium extends capabilities to track and analyze trends from the classroom to the district level, and facilitates data-driven interventions for improved student and school outcomes.
Product Information
- Student mental health focus areas: Develop life and character-building skills, Promote Social and School Connectedness, Equip Staff and Students to Recognize and Respond to Distress, Ensure Student Access to Effective Mental Health Treatment
- Product category: Check-ins, Crisis intervention, Screening/assessment, Self-guided activities
- Grade levels: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade
- End user(s): Administrators, Clinical Team, Students, Teachers, Parents
- Tiers of intervention: Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3
- District experience: <1,000 students, 1,000-5,000 students, 5,001-20,000 students, 20,001-50,000 students
- Free version available?: Free version is available nationwide
- Use of AI: Yes. Closegap uses AI to detect students who may be in crisis based on written check-ins, generate plain-language educator insights, tag student needs from free-text responses, recommend targeted Single Session Interventions, and generate English and Spanish voiceovers for dynamic check-ins.
Impact
- Intended outcomes: The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University identified the most common factors of children who develop resilience in the face of significant adversity: responsive adult relationships and self-regulation skills. Closegap was built to facilitate both of these using scalable technology. Closegap tracks a number of impact metrics related to both, in addition to the number of suicides prevented and serious issues surfaced by the tool. Learn more here.
- Demonstrated outcomes: Closegap saves lives by revealing invisible struggles. 80% of staff discovered previously unnoticed students in need, with 20% uncovering severe issues, including suicidal ideation. Beyond crises, the platform identifies upstream issues, with 80% of staff uncovering mild issues and 73% moderate issues among students. After one month, 40% of students who couldn't name a trusted adult could name at least one. 80% of students showed an increase in emotional labeling and regulation.
Privacy & Safety
- Privacy & security: Closegap minimizes what is shared with AI providers, uses vendors that contractually agree not to train models on its data, aligns practices with FERPA and COPPA expectations, and does not sell or share student data.
- Crisis protocols: Closegap uses AI to surface crisis-related signals from student check-ins, but AI does not replace trained adults. Crisis-related signals are reviewed by humans, and educators remain in control of how students are supported. When a model is uncertain, Closegap errs on the side of involving a human.
Data provided to school/district
Closegap provides all check-in data to schools and districts so they can intervene on student mental health needs in real-time. They provide aggregated check-in data as well as a fidelity dashboard to improve engagement and implementation for districts that upgrade to our premium offering.
Accessibility
- Web accessibility: Closegap is compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines, supporting keyboard navigation and text-to-speech.
- Language accessibility: English and Spanish. Closegap will soon be available in French and Mandarin.
