In an Oct. 24, 2025, segment of CBS News Los Angeles, the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s STAND system of care was highlighted as an innovative example of digital mental health programs tailored to college students.
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A review by UCLA Depression Grand Challenge researchers, published in Neuropsychopharmacology on Aug. 29, 2025, summarizes the increasing need for effective mental health resources for young adults and positions the STAND system of care as a model of a scalable, tailored intervention that can close gaps in care for college student populations.
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DGC Co-Director Michelle Craske, PhD, was awarded funding from the Foundation for Women’s Health, which will contribute to a new DGC study pairing digital sensing technology with STAND for perinatal depression, a version of STAND specifically adapted for birth parents in the pregnancy and postpartum periods.
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A study protocol article on the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s New Moms Mood Tracking & Wellbeing study was published in the journal Trials on Aug. 8, 2024. Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, PhD, is lead author; several additional DGC-affiliated researchers received authorship credit, including senior author Michelle Craske, PhD.
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The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge is piloting a new platform for delivering STAND content with its rollout of the STAND Wellness Resource on July 15, 2024. The new public resource features Tier 1/Wellness content from the STAND content library and is hosted on the MyDataHelps app.
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The Depression Grand Challenge is part of a project investigating the effects of CBT using STAND content to improve the effectiveness of depression treatment. The project, a large-scale factorial trial, seeks to measure how changes in STAND content may affect the intervention’s effectiveness for repetitive negative thinking.
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The NIMH-funded UCLA STAND ALACRITY Center convened academics and stakeholders from UCLA, East Los Angeles College and Imperial Valley College for its second-annual ALACRITY Stakeholder Retreat on March 12, 2024 at UCLA.
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The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge releases STAND Tips, a web-based toolkit available to everyone that provides effective strategies to help manage common stress, anxiety and grief, especially during periods of hardship or following traumatic events.
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When UCLA introduced an important new health resource this year for its students, Be Well Bruin, which included the STAR program as a key resource, the STAND program reached an important milestone — integration of the program into campus operations.
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The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge STAND for All program has been featured by the Mental Health Coalition as a top resource for college students in its inaugural College Student Mental Health Toolkit. The MHC designed and launched the toolkit for the start of the 2023 school year to equip college students with reliable resources, services and support needed to thrive as they transition into adult life.
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