Tellmi

Tellmi

Competition 19 - Mental Health Inequalities in Children and Young People

In England one in six of 10 million young people aged 11-25 has a serious mental health disorder (MHCYP, 2020). With 1.8 million young people needing support, scalable mental health solutions are urgently needed.

Tellmi is a multi-award winning, anonymous, pre-moderated, peer support app for children and young people aged 11-25. The 100% pre-moderated peer support model is safe, scalable and effective and anonymity makes it easier to seek support.

• 77,700 registered users
• £1.2m from investors raised
• Winner of ‘Digital Mental Health Solution of the Year’ at the 2022, Health Tech News Awards

• Data shows that young people in Greenwich have already interacted with the app over 1000 times
• Completed a successful pilot with Somerset CCG which enabled 542 young people in the county to access mental health support
• Independent evaluation by the Evidence Based Practice Unit at UCL on 876 young people found statistically significant evidence of improved mental health; young people using the Tellmi app felt better and less alone, and had increased confidence and connectedness which led to better mental health self management
• Tellmi is reaching young people who are underrepresented in mental health support; Boys (35%), Asian (11%), Black (3%), Mixed race (7%), In-care (2%), Fostercare (1%), ADHD (19%), autism (16%),
  learning difficulties (11%), LGBT (59%) (Tellmi survey, 2021).

Working with Tellmi has been a real eye opener in terms of the services available to children and young people across London. Tellmi has shown great initiative in its work towards supporting our young people who face so many challenges and the drive to continue to help, support and guide is very inspiring.

Rachel Burrell, CYP Commissioning Manager for South East London

March 2023