PAPSA Sponsor Sonar Mental Health Receives Funding to Offer No-Cost Services to PA School Districts (June 6, 2025)

Sonar Mental Health (link), the home of A Wellbeing Companion for Every Student: Personalized text-based mental health support built for schools and students, has exciting news to share: They’ve received funding from a foundation that will allow them to offer Sonar for no cost to districts (other than a $2K implementation fee).

Sonar offers:

  1. 24/7 chat-based mental health support for students from real professionals (not a chat bot)
  2. 24/7 caregiver support in helping school staff and families support students
  3. Data & insights to districts based on our universal screener and conversations

Please reach out to Drew Barvir (drew@sonarmentalhealth.com) if you’d like to learn more and join the dozens of districts already benefits from the service.