{"id":18857,"date":"2020-04-10T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18857"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:01","slug":"app-to-provide-anonymous-support-network-for-u-m-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/10\/app-to-provide-anonymous-support-network-for-u-m-students\/","title":{"rendered":"App to provide anonymous support network for U-M students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A new app called kare is an anonymous wellness support platform recently launched by U-M students for college students<\/a>. According to business junior Bennett Hilkert<\/strong>, chief executive officer and a co-founder of kare, the apps tagline (\u201cbecause sometimes we don\u2019t feel our best\u201d) outlines the purpose of the company: to help connect students via an anonymous peer-to-peer support network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app can help with things like problem solving and stress relief from exams or relationships. \u201cA lot of times it might be you didn\u2019t do as well as you wanted to on an exam, or you had a breakup but maybe you\u2019re not in a dire mental need,\u201d Hilkert said. \u201cWe felt like maybe professional therapists weren\u2019t needed there as much as peers, so we did a lot of research into peer-to-peer support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new app called kare is an anonymous wellness support platform recently launched by U-M students for college students. According to business junior Bennett Hilkert, chief executive officer and a co-founder of kare, the apps tagline (\u201cbecause sometimes we don\u2019t feel our best\u201d) outlines the purpose of the company: to help connect students via an anonymous peer-to-peer support\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,178,673,96],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-apps","tag-business","tag-mental-health","tag-students"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare.png",720,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare-140x140.png",140,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare.png",665,665,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare-700x700.png",600,600,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare.png",720,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare.png",720,720,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare-658x300.png",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare-665x665.png",665,665,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tmd-kare.png",250,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A new app called kare is an anonymous wellness support platform recently launched by U-M students for college students. According to business junior Bennett Hilkert, chief executive officer and a co-founder of kare, the apps tagline (\u201cbecause sometimes we don\u2019t feel our best\u201d) outlines the purpose of the company: to help connect students via an…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18904,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions\/18904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}