Summary report of Vibewire's #Hack4MentalHealth. Held 16-18 February 2018, this social impact hackathon was designed to tackle the social, technical, cultural and behavioural challenges of Mental Health.

1. NCOSS
#Hack4MentalHealth
Report, March 2018

3. Contents
1. Background
2. Mental Health themes
3. Problem statements
4. Teams and ideas
5. Winners
6. Next steps
We believe young people should create,
not inherit the future.
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changemakers.

4. Background
Vibewire in partnership with NCOSS, Jewish House, Minerva Collective and MnM
Institute hosted #Hack4MentalHealth on 16-18 February 2018.
Over 100 people participated in the hackathon including, coders, designers,
entrepreneurs and subject matter experts from Jewish House, NCOSS, Fresh
Gravity and Dan Hunt from the Mental Health Movement. As well as people with
lived experience of mental health (past and recent).
More than 50% of participants had never been to a hackathon before - and only a
small number of people had previously met. We were all swimming in uncharted
waters.
Over 36 hours, eleven teams formed and developed solutions that addressed the
key themes and problem statements.

5. Themes
The themes include:
● Depression and mental
health
● Anxiety
● Death by suicide
● Peer-to-peer support
● Positive choice,
storytelling and
wellbeing.

6. Despite billions of dollars of investment and long term commitment to addressing mental health issues, statistics indicate
that the situation is worsening.
Youth mental health:
● Around one in 35 young Australians aged 4-17 experience a depressive disorder
● One in seven young Australians experience a mental health condition
● Suicide is the biggest killer of young Australians and accounts for the deaths of more young people than car
accidents
Moreover:
● The number of deaths by suicide in young Australians is the highest it has been in 10 years – 391 young
Australians died by suicide in 2012 compared with 290 in 2005.
Problem we are solving

7. Problem Statements
JEWISH HOUSE Challenge: ISOLATION AND LONELINESS/24/7 CARE -
How people with mental health challenges can keep busy and have ways to feel
connected.
NCOSS Challenge: RURAL, REGIONAL, REMOTE ACCESS TO SERVICES -
Connectivity for people in rural and remote areas dealing with Mental Health
issues.

8. Teams and Ideas
OrangeLemonGrape
Christopher Michaelides and Helen
Mennes
Problem you are solving:
Mental Health Management
OrangeLemonGrape
NFP Web platform extension allowing
users to track their wins, losses and
gratitude.
Sharing:
Orange - Sweet
Lemon - Sour
Grape - ‘Grape-ful’ aka Gratitude
View Presentation

9. Teams and Ideas
Fresh Gravity
Natalie Byrgiotis and Team
Problem you are solving:
Self Management/ Motivation
Fresh Gravity
Livfresh app/platform connecting services
and analysing results. As well as Google
home voice analytics.

10. Teams and Ideas
AuXR
(Joint 2nd place)
Hardik Trivedi and Harshitha
Rajashekara
Problem you are solving:
Teaching Social Behaviour
AuXR
VR for Autistic kids.
Download Link

11. Teams and Ideas
Sushi Mind
Adam Nobilia and Anthony Nicholas
Problem you are solving:
Preventative tool
Sushi Mind
Healthy thinking game incorporating CBT
and Mindfulness techniques.
Download Presentation

12. Teams and Ideas
Team High 5
(1st place)
Cristina Aviles, Azucena Coronel and
Jose Velez
Problem you are solving:
Follow-up tool connecting clients and
carers
Journey Mate
Web based app/platform tackling relapse
and adherence
Download Link

13. Teams and Ideas
Deloitte-ful
(Highly commended)
Jack Leung, Marcus Schweizer, Richard
Schweizer, Vinod Ralh, Deepanjan
Chakrabarty and Ballina Gee.
Problem you are solving:
Increase mood/ positive thinking and
connect with loved ones in times of
crisis/low mood.
Kai
Interactive AI therapeutic assistant.
Download presentation
Kai video demonstration

14. Teams and Ideas
Mood Active
Anthony Nicholas, Rene Essomba, Lewis
Gould Fensom and Cameron Wilson
Problem you are solving:
Extending the real life community
experience to an online sense of
connectedness.
Mood Active
Application to connect real life sports
community network.
View Presentation

15. Teams and Ideas
Team Perpetua
Problem you are solving:
Encourage positive habits in leisure time
Me Time
Mobile and Tablet application.
View Presentation

16. Teams and Ideas
Sonify
(Joint 2nd place)
Eric Gao and Danielle Shala
Problem you are solving:
Using the universal language of music to
break barriers and create easily
interpreted data
Sonify
Mental Health based data mapped to
sound and music.
View Presentation

17. Teams and Ideas
Coo.Ee
Amira Hashemi, Adam Young, Angela
Guirguis and Shakira Wood
Problem you are solving:
B2B communication updates between
therapist and other related Mental Health
professionals
Coo.Ee
Chatbot - personalised, integrated and
augmented.
View Presentation

18. Teams and Ideas
Natural Connections
(3rd place)
Problem you are solving:
Helpful tool for users seeking the benefits
of “green moments”.
Natural Connections
Application connecting users to natural
outdoor experiences - walking groups,
trails, monuments etc. Mental Health
benefits of nature well documented.
View Presentation

19. NEXT STEPS
FOR WINNERS
INCUBATION
WHAT DID THEY WIN
Journey Mate 1st
+ $1,500 in cash
+ 3 months co-working space at Vibewire for up to
5 members (valued at $2000)
+ Activator Coaching Sessions with Entrepreneur
Coach: Carli Leimbach. 3 x 60 mins Live Team
Coaching (valued at $2,250 for up to 6 people)
Sonify and AuXR Joint-2nd
+ $100 JB Hi-Fi Voucher x 5
+ Google Home Mini
Natural Connections 3rd
+ $50 JBHIFI voucher X 5
+ Google Chromecast
Deloitte-ful - Highly Commended

20. VIBEWIRE
Presenting this report
to government
Working on a
Social Impact Incubator
Planning the next event
#Hack4FinancialInclusion
MAY 2018

21. Vibewire is Australia's first skills gym designed to prep young people (aged 20-35) on how to hustle in 2030. We run intensive
skills workouts for you to exercise, challenge and push your enterprise, creative and technology skills working on real briefs
and problems.
We have incubated and supported over 100 creative, social and tech startups, and helped to launch the careers of over a
thousand young change makers since 2000.
Check us out on vibewire.org
About Vibewire

22. We couldn’t #Hack4MentalHealth without the support of our sponsors and partners who have all
gone above and beyond to help us reach deep into our communities to create connection and
change:
We’d also like to acknowledge the support of our Gofundraise Contributors:
Anne-Marie Elias and Gavin Heaton.

24. CONNECT WITH US
facebook.com/vibewire
instagram.com/vibewire
FOR MORE INFO
vibewire.org
meetup.com/Young-Entrepreneurs-Sydney