Porter-Starke Services is all about helping people and living out their belief in Health, Balance, and Hope. As a licensed community health center with accredidations from the Council on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, Porter-Starke is able to offer a full range of care for adults, families, adolescents, and children with mental health or substance abuse issues.
With locations in Valparaiso, Portage, and Knox, Porter-Starke is able to reach many people. But they didn't want to stop there, which is why they connected with myStrength to reach even more people.
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"It makes people pay attention to their mental health," Aaron Kochar, Director, Prevention & Education at Porter-Starke Services, Inc., said. "Anyone can use it. And for our patients it provides a time in between where they can check in. It helps with their therapy. It's not a replacement, just an added tool that can be accessed 24/7."
When you create your profile on myStrength.com, you get a step-by-step tutorial on how to best utilize the site. After you watch the tutorials, you can look all over the site to find daily check-in tests, mood trackers, download apps for your smartphone so you can access it anywhere, set goals and new healthy habits, check out daily motivational quotes, look at assessment results, and much more!
"Everyone should use myStrength," Kochar said. "It's good for introspection. I use it myself and make it part of my daily routine."