Research
The research component of the project is to better understand how the summer youth camp community is experiencing and responding to issues associated with the MESH (+) needs of youth.
Tickit Health and ACH, believe the tool creates trust and invokes a willingness within a person to share their unique voice, transforming transactional relationships into trusting relationships.
Tickit Health ACH MyView Project
Enhancing Youth Voice and Improving Care
Entering year 2 implmenting the “MyView” Screening Tool within the camp community. Launched in 2023 the Alliance for Camp Health (ACH) and Tickit Health (Tickit) collaborated to provide the My View MESH (+) Screening Project. Our goal is to improve the provision of care in the summer enrichment setting by using Digital Empathy as a screening framework to promote wellbeing. The work directly supports ACH’s commitment to research and the desire to capture youth voice as we expand the body of knowledge that directs camp health services.
Tickit Health, Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Sandy Whitehouse, an adolescent physician shared, “We are thrilled to partner with ACH and Clemson University to support the summer camp community with this MESH (+) initiative. ACH realizes the challenges our children are facing and how this impacts their summer learning experience.”
The My View tool, designed by Tickit, is evidence-based, child and youth focused, strength-based and trauma informed. Created by subject matter experts, the aim is to provide campers a sense of belonging and reassurance before their camp experience while infusing hope by allowing them to imagine themselves in certain settings before camp. Whitehouse added, “It was evident ACH has a desire to bring youth voices forward to give camp organizations the information they need to provide an enriching, nurturing experience for every camper.”
The engaging and digitally empathetic design of My View, results in better and more complete Mental, Emotional, and Social Health; MESH (+) data for both frontline staff and support staff (onsite health care providers and behavioral health specialists) to support participants.
Tracey Gaslin, CEO of ACH said, “The Tickit Health Digital EmpathyTM platform is proving to be an essential tool to gain youth voice in an effort to empower, support, and validate youth lived experience. We are excited about the potentials this tool provides and how it can promote healing-centered engagement through camp.“
Tickit Health and ACH, believe the tool creates trust and invokes a willingness within a person to share their unique voice, transforming transactional relationships into trusting relationships.
The purpose of the research component of the project is to better understand how the summer youth camp community is experiencing and responding to issues associated with the MESH (+) needs of youth.
Dr. Barry Garst, a Professor at Clemson University, who serves as the Research Chair for the Alliance for Camp Health, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Youth Development stated “High quality camp experiences are founded on accurate and up-to-date information about the needs and concerns of youth attending camp. We’re excited to partner with select summer camps and TickIt Health to implement the My View camper screening tool this summer.”
To this end, the study on the My View MESH (+) Screening will examine noted concerns in the experiences by youth participants in out-of-school time settings such as camp and examine tools, measures, and resources useful for MESH (+) screening, assessment, and response.
The project is made possible by the innovative approach and participation from the following 2023 Pilot Sites:
