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We run caring contact programs for colleges, universities, and K-12 schools.

A quarter of enrolled college students (27%) leave school because they struggle with mental health issues.
We help those students, which keeps them in school.

Advisors, retention specialists, counselors, etc., use our tool to keep their students healthier.

Listen to Phil DeCico explain more.

How we help students stay healthy while boosting retention rates:

Sign-up
Advisors upload their students’
mobile numbers. We get all opt-in
permissions and run caring
contacts with those students.
We text students 1 relevant
wellness question bi-weekly.
Texting is universal. It
engages the most students.
Students text back a self-score
on any of 50 topics. Self-scores
trigger support protocols and
follow-up referrals.
Advisors get bi-weekly reports. In
just 10 minutes, all their covered
students can get quality support
for issues they struggle with.
Detailed student documentation

Try our zero-risk college pilot offer

$500
  • Select any retention-risk student group
    (e.g. first gen, LGBT, minority students, etc).
  • Add up to 400 of those students’ phone numbers.
  • We’ll run your program through June, 2025.
  • Cancel at will. If you do, get a full refund of your $500 fee.
  • Evaluate results, budget for renewal at regular price.

Let’s talk about how we can keep students healthy and improve retention rates!
Pick a 30-minute appointment time and we’ll meet online.

Why Everyone Loves Student CaringContacts:

Studies show ¼ of all students leave school due to mental health issues.

Students who struggle need support or they are likely to leave school. We deliver that support, without expensive counseling staff, and keep them in school.

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We help retain more students.

Identify a retention risk group and we start to identify which student is struggling with issues. We then give them appropriate support for their issue and refer any acute cases to a counseling resource.

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“Our administration is focused on supporting the mental health of all our students. This program is a great tool to help us regularly engage students to keep them healthy and ready to learn. It works really well for our counseling staff.”

Dr. J.J. McEachern
Vice President for Student Services
Mitchell Community College, NC

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We can cover retention-risk student groups, or 100% of your enrolled students.

By keeping students healthy and safe, we improve retention rates and academic performance.

Students get the help and care they need with an issue. That improves their lives!

We do caring contacts every 2-weeks across a wide variety of student issues.
We gather student responses, provide age-appropriate support, and refer acute cases.

We engage students on 50+ topics, including depression and anxiety. Counselors/Advisors have complete control over everything.

Book a free consultation
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Depression Screener:

Over the past two weeks, how often have you felt happy and interested in life?

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Anxiety Screener:

In the past two weeks, how often have you found it hard to control your worrying?

StudentCaringContacts FAQs

About Us:

Our Story

Our Story: Brian and Tabbatha Lawe lost their beloved nephew, 20 year-old Stevie, to suicide. They turned their grief into action by creating a foundation to research and fund what became the HopeCheck program. HopeCheck regularly asked K-12 and college students about their hope outlook to identify the earliest signs of hopelessness.

During hundreds of school and counselor discussions, we learned that K-12 and college counselors never have enough time to do caring contacts as they wished. So, we decided to help by building a new technology to do comprehensive student caring contacts for all K-12 and college advisors, counselors, retentional specialists, etc.

We couldn’t build it alone, so we got tremendous assistance from the Kopp Family Foundation, and the nonprofit Ave Maria Community Corporation. The result is StudentCaringContacts.org. Our primary focus is on helping students. Our goal is to keep students safe and healthy, which keeps them in school and succeeding!

StudentCaringContacts.org is a Public Benefits company registered in the state of Delaware. The service is operated by HopeCheck Org LLC, and is operated in Ave Maria, FL. We are a 12-person operation that provides (1) first-class school and counselor support (led by Michelle Atkins), (2) technical system development (led by Cris Blanco), and (3) business operations (led by Brian Lawe).

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