Prevention-Focused Mental Health Support for Youth and Young Adults
Kooth is a digital mental health organization with 25 years of experience delivering early intervention support to young people through public and community partnerships. The organization was established to address persistent gaps in access to care related to geography, workforce shortages, cost, and stigma, with a consistent focus on prevention and early intervention to address the underlying mental health challenges, upstream risk factors for substance use, isolation, and unmet support needs that can contribute to worsening mental health and other high-risk outcomes.
Soluna is Kooth’s U.S. platform for adolescents and young adults ages 13 to 25, designed to reach individuals who are often underserved by traditional systems. Accessible via smartphone and web browser, the platform provides a low-barrier, confidential entry point to youth-focused, prevention programming that may reduce the risk of substance use initiation, and downstream mental health concerns. Soluna offers support through self-guided activities, pre-moderated peer connection, and real-time support from state-licensed mental health professionals, substance use counselors, and certified peer support specialists.
By partnering with state and local government and higher education institutions, Kooth helps build sustainable systems of early intervention that reach young people before unaddressed stress, anxiety, trauma, and social isolation escalate into higher acuity behavioral health needs or high-risk outcomes such as substance use, self-harm, chronic absenteeism, and crisis care utilization. Soluna complements existing systems of care by extending support beyond traditional clinical settings and making services available during evenings, weekends, and school breaks - the times when young people are often most likely to need support and least likely to have access to it.
Soluna provides a multi-tiered approach to behavioral health, offering a variety of ways to engage depending on individual needs and preferences. The platform integrates self-directed resources with moderated peer-to-peer environments and direct access to a professional care team, ensuring a seamless continuum of support within a single digital ecosystem.
Young people can access journaling tools, mood tracking, guided goal setting, and a library of educational content focused on stress management, emotional wellbeing, relationships, and healthy coping strategies. De-identified peer-to-peer support spaces are professionally pre-moderated to foster belonging, reduce isolation, and maintain a clinically safe environment.
When additional support is needed, users can connect directly with licensed behavioral health professionals and substance use counselors through text or video sessions. Early access to supportive conversations and evidence-informed guidance can help young people increase access to care, address stressors, emotional challenges, and emerging concerns while reducing the high costs and strain on the behavioral health system of care. These accessible upstream interventions increase early help-seeking among youth who have never accessed care
Soluna also serves as a digital front door designed to integrate with and amplify existing community-based organizations. Providing access to low and no-cost community-based services by connecting users with culturally relevant local resources such as food assistance, housing support, education services, transportation, and crisis care. This integrated approach helps state agencies address both behavioral health needs and the social drivers that can increase vulnerability to substance use, crisis involvement, and long-term adverse health outcomes.
Kooth works closely with state partners to support successful implementation through outreach campaigns, training, stakeholder engagement, youth advisory programs, and educational resources for schools, families, and communities. The platform is backed by strong clinical governance and privacy protections, maintaining compliance with HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and CCPA standards to ensure secure, trusted support for users and public sector partners alike. Kooth has also achieved URAC accreditation, validating that its clinical governance, safeguarding practices, and digital mental health infrastructure meet nationally recognized standards for quality, safety, privacy, and ethical care delivery.
By combining technology, clinical expertise, and public sector collaboration, Kooth helps states expand access to prevention-focused mental health support, improve outcomes for underserved youth populations, and strengthen the wellbeing of communities at scale.