Mental and emotional disorders present challenges on two fronts: dealing with the disorder itself, and dealing with stigma attached to the disorder. Public understanding has come a long way in recent decades, but it’s still easy to find people who…
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Get Familiar With Our New Search Tool
When looking for a useful app for yourself, your child, or even your students, it is tough to find one that you can fully trust. Whether it is a learning-based app or an app helpful for thriving in everyday life,…
Getting Veterans Connected: Easter Seals Greater Houston and Recenter Houston
Not long ago, the military Veteran was seen through one of two stereotyped lenses: forever tough, gruff, and set apart from “ordinary” civilians; or indistinguishable from other civilians, hardly remembering his service years except as stories to entertain his grandchildren.…
Getting the Word Out: How You Can Help Others Find Affordable Digital Access
Read Time 2 Minutes As discussed in our recent post, “Library Hotspots and Lift Zones,” lack of reliable high-speed internet is an educational, economic, and vocational disadvantage. Fortunately, there are many options for getting advanced digital access on a limited…
A Brief History of Service Dogs | National Dog Month
Read Time 3 Minutes In honor of National Dog Month, BridgingApps dedicates this post to all hardworking service dogs past and present. Working dogs have been part of human civilization for thousands of years. Once upon a time, a wolf…
Library Hotspots and Lift Zones: Making the Internet Universally Accessible
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes After the initial COVID outbreak of 2020 shut down public gatherings, the disadvantages of living without reliable broadband internet became obvious. School kids in low-income families, cut off from in-person education and unable…
Navigating the World of Telehealth
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 5 Minutes Some people can’t get enough of digital technology. Some people learn it out of necessity. And some people use it only when there is absolutely no alternative. There’s a world of media surrounding…
988: The New Mental-Health Emergency Number
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes In the United States, over 45,000 people die each year from suicide—the country’s twelfth leading cause of death. Many of these tragedies could be prevented if prompt diagnosis and treatment were available (and…
BridgingApps Reviewed App | Bank of America Mobile Banking
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Bank of America Mobile Banking is a convenient and secure fintech app that allows you to monitor and manage your accounts with Bank of America. The app is divided…
Special Mental Health Concerns For Veterans
By Katherine Swarts3 minute read To round off Mental Health Awareness Month and acknowledge Memorial Day, BridgingApps looks at veteran mental health. Bring up mental health and military veterans, and most people automatically think, “Oh, PTSD.” While post-traumatic stress disorder…