SafeUT vs VSWT

The SafeUT Crisis Text and Tip Line app provides 24/7 access to crisis counseling and school tip reporting for students and their parents and guardians that live in the state of Utah. After installing the app you can connect directly to the UNI CrisisLine or report a confidential tip on bullying, school threats of violence or concern about someone in crisis. CrisisLine staff can assist with a wide variety of problems, including emotional crisis, grief and loss, drug and alcohol problems, mental health issues, self-harm and suicidal behavior.

VMI is a motivational interviewing application designed to provide practice for social workers engaging with caregivers and families in child welfare. Social workers can practice and learn motivational interviewing techniques to help them engage and interact in a way that promotes behavior change. In the app, you can progress through learning modules to practice these techniques during a multitude of professionally constructed scenarios. As your skills develop, you can receive experience, expert feedback, and the opportunity to tackle new and more complex interactions. Through the use of this motivational interviewing approach, social workers will have opportunities to participate in the skills practice necessary to effectively engage with the families they serve.