NEW YORK, Could 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Psychological well being should not be miserable. Or at the very least that is what the founder & CEO of Chill Pill, Hayley Caddes, got down to show when she raised over $2m for her audio peer assist psychological well being app for Gen Z ladies in the summertime of 2021. Since then, Chill Tablet has managed to do one thing only a few different shopper social apps have been capable of do – create a secure, welcoming, on-line group for teenage and younger grownup ladies to speak about their psychological well being and assist one another by means of their powerful instances and unhealthy days.
“I really feel this sense of group and freedom to be myself and to be susceptible that I have not discovered wherever else,” says one in every of Chill Tablet’s teenage members, who has been attending and main Chill Tablet’s peer assist teams for the previous 9 months.
Chill Tablet describes its group as a secure, on-line area for female-identifying, non-binary, and gender-fluid Gen Z’ers to work on their psychological well being.
Members can work together with one another on the app, which launched on the App Store on Could tenth, in two methods: by attending community- led audio assist teams and by anonymously posting their every day ideas and reflections to Chill Tablet’s judgement-free journal feed.
By making a tradition the place members can solely share about their very own experiences and the way they will relate to others, the place they aren’t permitted to supply recommendation or give suggestions to different members, Chill Tablet has managed to create a group that one in every of their members describes as “secure, open, supportive, and so welcoming. It feels type of like a second household.”
Since opening as much as the general public, Chill Tablet’s group has grown exponentially. Up to now, Chill Tablet has round 500 lively members and has had over 7,000 minutes of assist teams previous to the app’s official launch.
“Our app was constructed by our group, for our group,” says founder & CEO Hayley Caddes, who raised capital pre-product based mostly off a small proof-of-concept and her personal private story, from Stellation Capital, Notation Capital, Expa, The Fund, and Supernode Ventures, in addition to notable angels similar to Rob Fishman and Darren Lachtman, the founders of Brat TV, and Alex Chung, the founder & CEO of Giphy.
Caddes is utilizing her 5 years of expertise in Alcoholics Nameless and attending AA conferences when she was 16-22, to design assist teams that teenage women can run by themselves with out the necessity for an expert to reasonable. “AA has been round for nearly 100 years, is probably the most profitable psychological well being group on this planet, and is run by alcoholics, for alcoholics. There’s loads to be taught from the AA mannequin,” she says. Each assist group is run the very same means and they’re much like AA conferences in that attendees can solely share about their very own experiences, can’t present recommendation or give suggestions to different members, and are led by 2 volunteer members of the group – who schedule the assembly, decide a psychological well being subject to speak about of their alternative, and kick off the sharing.
The founder is constructing the psychological well being group she want she had as a youngster. One in all their 16-year previous members says, “Being a part of this group means feeling welcomed and secure it doesn’t matter what stroll of life you might be from or what previous traumas you have had.” Chill Tablet’s mission is to develop the group to assist tens of millions of different younger ladies world wide really feel the identical.
SOURCE Chill Tablet
