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📞 Digital MindSKILLZ is Grassroot Soccer and Viamo's gamified mental health program that delivers mental health information, coping skills, and soccer-themed quizzes to young people through any mobile phone – no smartphone, internet, or literacy skills needed! 📚We're excited to share that a peer-reviewed paper on how young people engage with the program – which is delivered using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology – has just been published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 🙌 The paper describes how Digital MindSKILLZ has brought engaging mental health information to more than 420,000 people across six countries (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia), a majority of whom live in rural communities and are under the age of 25. 📲Visit https://grassrootsoccer.org/articles/digital-mindskillz-reaching-hundreds-of-thousands-of-young-people-with-mental-health-information/ to learn more, and swipe to listen to an audio sample from the game! One of the paper's peer reviewers summed up the importance – and potential – of Digital MindSKILLZ best: (fb)