Mental Health and Grief Support for Students
With 60% of college students experiencing mental health challenges and 30-55% of undergraduates recently bereaved, the campus mental health crisis demands innovative solutions. These challenges directly impact retention, academic performance, and student success, making comprehensive support essential for the long-term health of educational institutions.
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Show Students You Care
Help Texts delivers personalized, year-long mental health and grief support to students via text message—individualized based on specific challenges and losses. Texts are curated from the wisdom of over 100 world-leading experts, including therapists, social workers, psychologists, thanatologists, neuroscientists, and counselors.
Every message is carefully crafted to provide hope, comfort, and practical support, reviewed by mental health and grief experts and tailored to each student's specific situation.
Investing in student well-being through mental health and grief support is not only a moral imperative—it's a strategic advantage in today's higher education landscape. By extending care beyond academic concerns, you demonstrate your institution's commitment to whole-student development, enhance academic outcomes, and foster a resilient campus culture that supports students through their most vulnerable moments.
Scalable Support For Your Campus
By partnering with Help Texts, your university, college or high school can provide expert care to every student in a way that’s clinically sound and cost effective. Help Texts ensures no student falls through the cracks.
Boost Student Success
- Improve student retention by addressing leading causes of withdrawal
- Provide immediate support during critical periods when students are most vulnerable
- Reduce academic disruptions through proactive intervention
- Maintain connection with students taking leaves of absence
Enhance Campus Mental Health Ecosystem
- Complement your counseling center's services by eliminating waitlists
- Provide 24/7 support between therapy sessions or appointments
- Deliver consistent care during breaks and transitions
- Reach students in 26 languages with culturally sensitive support
Enhance Your Reputation with Robust Mental Health Support
- Provide specialized content for the 30-55% of students experiencing bereavement
- Demonstrate innovative leadership in student wellness to differentiate from peer institutions
- Build confidence among parents and families in your commitment to comprehensive student care
Gain Actionable Insights and Expand Your Reach
- Survey students and gather valuable program data through low-friction feedback tools
- Access real-time feedback and analytics to improve student support initiatives
- Increase reach by sending texts directly to students as well as to friends and family who want to support them
Don’t just take our word for it
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Help Texts has helped me realize that I am not alone and that my feelings are normal. The text messages give me advice and help that I can’t normally get at my age, from friends or adults. I feel like the texts are a special thing for me to look at when I really need them. They help me discover myself and my feelings after the loss of my mom. Help being a text message away is one of the best things that has been given to me, to work through my grief.
Renee, 17-year old Help Texts subscriber
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Losing my Dad turned my life upside down. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know how to handle my emotions. When other people forgot that I was grieving, Help Texts helped me understand this journey I'm on, and that it's okay to feel all the emotions I was feeling. With texts specifically for me and the loss of my Dad, I felt a sense of comfort. I was also able to add my husband to the service so that he could better understand what I was going through and how to help me. We were able to have open conversations about grief. I wasn't in this alone, and all of my feelings were valid.
Sarah Khatau, Help Texts subscriber
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There is nothing that helps you prepare your 23-year-old daughter to be a pallbearer for her best friend, and then grieve that loss. Enter Help Texts, an incredible service that had a powerful and positive impact on how I could understand and help my daughter. I hope to never need this again but continue to recommend Help Texts to friends and colleagues looking for grief support.
Fiona Pomajba, subscriber
Comprehensive Support
Help Texts provides comprehensive support across many life challenges and makes it possible to support the 60% of students facing mental health challenges.
- Mental health support for depression, anxiety, loneliness, bullying, thoughts of suicide, and more
- Grief support for loss of loved ones
- Pregnancy loss support tailored to miscarriage, stillbirth, and medical termination
- Pet loss support for the often-overlooked grief of losing animal companions
- Caregiver support for students caring for a loved one with a serious illness
Help Texts delivers this comprehensive support exactly when students need it most—during life’s most challenging moments. Our exceptional engagement rates making Help Texts one of the most cost-effective and effective ways to improve mental health on campus.
Navigating life’s challenges can be hard. Getting support doesn’t have to be.
Breaking through every barrier to grief support
Sometimes, people question whether text messages can really make a difference in something as profound as grief. But the research is clear: text-based support cuts through traditional barriers to care—from geographic distance to language, stigma, or comfort level with technology or traditional therapy—making expert grief support accessible to everyone. With no waitlist.
of subscribers say Help Texts helped them feel more supported in their grief
of grievers enroll within the first six months of their loss
6 month retention rate
Especially high engagement rates among men
Support available in
27 languages
Subscribers in
44 countries
