200 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, On, Canada N2L 3G1
About Us
Meet the team that built WatResource
We are WatResource
Students go to our web app to complete a pre-assessment quiz. The questions help the app determine the best mental health resource for your based on your customized answers. It assesses how urgent your need is and takes factors such as urgent care, communication type, and sociodemographics into consideration. For example, if you need urgent help now and are in critical condition, we will recommend the resources of police or hospital to you immediately.
Inspiration
Mental health is an issue that affects hundreds of students at Waterloo. Many times, people don’t know where to go for help. With the long wait times for counseling services, we decided to create WatResource, a way to get students the mental health resources they need.
How it works
There are so many resources on and off campus for students. We’re proud of creating a customized quiz that uses factors. We grouped the factors into: Level of urgency, communication type desired (online vs in person), type of setting (peer vs. professional), and sociodemographic (residency, religious, gender, religious belief) to match students with resources they did not know they could access. We are proud to link students to over 20 different resources.