Youth co-design:
Yes — Navi has a paid Youth Advisory Board involved in feature development, user experience, copywriting, marketing language, and social media. Teens are compensated for their time, and co-design is iterative.

Navi

Navi helps teens create action plans to navigate everyday challenges through self-guided mini activities backed by 10 years of clinical research.
Product Information
  • Student mental health focus areas: Develop life and character-building skills, Promote Social and School Connectedness, Ensure Student Access to Effective Mental Health Treatment
  • Product category: Crisis intervention, Self-guided activities
  • Tiers of intervention: Tier 1
  • Grade levels: 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade
  • End user(s): Students
  • District experience: 1,000-5,000 students
  • Free version available?: Free for students in some states.
  • Detail about availability: New Mexico
  • Use of AI: Navi does not use AI to create content, resources, or activities on the Navi platform. Everything is written by their clinical team. Navi users never interact with an AI chat-bot in the app. Navi does use Natural Language Processing (a form of AI) to read any open-field text responses submitted by users to scan for risk of suicide, which enables them to identify at-risk users faster than if a human were reading every response manually.
Impact
  • Intended outcomes: Improved agency, motivation, and help-seeking behavior. Teens create personalized action plans to navigate challenges using evidence-based Single Session Interventions grounded in self-determination theory.
  • Demonstrated outcomes: Dr. Schleider's research reaching 100,000+ youth. In one school district in New York, 74% of teens who started a mini-activity completed it; this is more than double the completion rate observed in prior evaluations of naturalistic digital SSI deployment. Among those who completed a Navi mini-activity, roughly 2/3 felt less hopeless afterward than they had beforehand, a statistically meaningful shift (p = .014) on one of the most clinically important outcomes in youth mental health.
Privacy & Safety
  • Privacy & security: COPPA and in process for HIPAA with Drata
  • Crisis protocols: Standard: If the system detects potential harm, Navi suggests crisis resources (988 & other specific hotlines) and encourages safety planning. Navi is not a crisis service.
Data provided to school/district

Overall engagement, trending topics

Accessibility
  • Web accessibility: WCAG 2.1
  • Language accessibility: Spanish
Youth co-design:
Yes — Navi has a paid Youth Advisory Board involved in feature development, user experience, copywriting, marketing language, and social media. Teens are compensated for their time, and co-design is iterative.

Note

All information was provided by the company in May 2026. We encourage you to ask for up-to-date information, as well as any additional information needed, when considering products. 

Disclosure: This company was a member of the Headstream Accelerator Program.

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