Designing for Dignity: New Resources on Digital Wellbeing and Gratitude

In a world that often feels rushed and disconnected, how do we help students find their footing?

Closegap has partnered with MindWise Consultancy founder Caitlin Krause to launch two new Single-Session Interventions (SSIs) on Gratitude and Digital Wellbeing. Moving beyond standard screen-time lectures and toxic positivity, these brief, present-focused resources are designed to spark curiosity, build resilience, and meet students exactly where they are.

In this post, you'll discover:

• How to establish dignity as the true foundation for digital wellbeing.

• The "3 A's" of mindfulness to help students interrupt doom-scrolling momentum.

• Practical ways to seamlessly integrate these quick tools into advisory periods, daily transitions, and digital citizenship units.

"We’re creating a place where students feel they matter, and that place might end up inside themselves."

Koko and Closegap make it possible to give students more care in less time. This partnership brings short, evidence-backed Single Session Interventions into Closegap so students can spend eight to ten minutes learning real coping skills on tough topics like body image, self-harm, and suicidality while counselors get tools that actually fit into the school day.

Closegap and Koko are teaming up to meet students where they are—at school and online—with brief, research-backed Single Session Interventions (SSIs). Using millions of real student check-ins and rigorously tested tools, this partnership gives schools fast, evidence-based supports for issues like body image, self-harm, and safety, right when students need it most.

California’s CYBHI now reimburses school-linked behavioral-health services for students 25 and under—with no copays. Learn what’s covered, how LEAs submit claims, and how districts can reinvest reimbursement into Closegap Premium to spot needs early, document billable services, and scale MTSS.

The evidence of the impact of just a single session on student wellbeing in secondary schools is clear from the research. Schools and districts are asking their teachers and counselors to leverage these interventions as part of MTSS.

Schools and Districts are adding Single-Session Interventions (SSIs) into their MTSS plans to scale evidence-based care to every learner. Many teachers use advisory time for students to complete an SSI as an activity following their Closegap Check-In; counselors are adding SSIs to complement their care plans as recommendations for students receiving targeted Tier 2 interventions or as supplemental practice for intensive, Tier 3 supports.

Give students more care in less time with Single-Session Interventions (SSIs), now live on Closegap.

Closegap’s updated check-in now starts with ‘What do you need right now?’—giving students agency, surfacing urgent needs faster, and helping educators triage with clearer, more honest signals.