Saskatchewan-made app aimed at helping farmers’ mental health launched
Farmers across Saskatchewan have a lot to worry about on any given day and a new app is hoping to help support producers and their mental health.
Bridges Health, which is based in Saskatoon, was awarded a $10,000 grant and a 16-week residency by Innovations Saskatchewan to help with the creation of its app Avail.
The app, which is available on both Google and Apple, offers producers a confidential system that allows them to track and analyze their mental health as well as provide access to many different resources online.
“Farmers and ranchers endure high levels of stress which can negatively impact their health, their life and, in turn, the economy as well,” Everett Hindley, Saskatchewan’s minister of mental health and addictions and of rural and remote health, said Thursday.