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Last year, Santa Clara County tested an innovative way to connect troubled teens with mental health care, opening allcove clinics in Palo Alto and San Jose. Now, other counties are looking to follow suit.

Last year, Santa Clara County tested an innovative way to connect troubled teens with mental health care, opening allcove clinics in Palo Alto and San Jose. Now, other counties are looking to follow suit.

Last year, Santa Clara County tested the waters with an innovative way to connect troubled teens with mental health care, opening allcove clinics in Palo Alto and San Jose. Now other counties are looking to follow suit.

The sites will focus on the needs of those ages 12-25, as experts say those are the years when initial mental health concerns often arise.

A study published by Verily researchers showed that some smartphone metrics, such as sentiment in weekly voice diaries, matched up with the severity of users’ depression as determined by PHQ-9 scores. Even if these technologies could be used to track mental health, it’s not clear how they will fit into physician workflows or how comfortable people will be using their smartphones in this way. 

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