Universal Behavioral Health Screening

What If Just Listening
Was Where Authentic
Student Support Began?

Voice-based behavioral health screening for K–12, built so the conversation that identifies the need is the same one that begins the support. Your students, in their own words, at scale.

Selected by California for Statewide Infrastructure · April 2026
97%
participationrates
1.4
days fromscreen to support
$0
net cost(CYBHI)
6
competenciesscreened per student
San Diego COE · Vista USD · CA BHSOAC · Santa Clara COE · San Diego USD · El Dorado COE
Voice Intelligence Analysis

Language Carries The Signals That Surveys Miss.

Live Analysis
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Time-Synced Transcript
Live BH Domain Signal
Emotional Resilience
Self-Insight
Reflective Growth
Emotional Resilience
Reframing Failure

"My biggest failure would be not taking enough risk to experience true failure." The model flags this as a resilience marker: failure recast as an unmet aspiration; not a catastrophe. There is no self-blame. Her attention is on what's next, not what went wrong.

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Self-Insight
Avoidance Pattern Named

"I tend to stay in my comfort zone and stand behind the yellow caution tape." A spontaneous, original metaphor for her own avoidance behavior — the model isn't looking for key words; it's looking for the naming precision that signals genuine self-awareness.

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Reflective Growth
Present-Tense Growth Commitment

"Every day I'm trying to expand the barriers of my comfort zone… I'd like to experience a lot more failures." This present-tense growth orientation is fused with a desire to increase risk exposure. She is narrating an active, ongoing process.

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MTSS Integrations Tier Assignment In Real Time.
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Validated
Skills Signals

Every output maps automatically to one of three MTSS tiers — Universal, Targeted, or Intensive. No triage meeting, no manual override, no spreadsheet. The student who needs Tier 2 support is on the counselor's list before the student leaves the room. And the counselor already has next steps.

SDCOE MTSS Tier Assignment Matrix
Counselors School Psychologists
Wellness Coaches County Office Staff
SELPA Directors Special Education Teachers
Social Workers Site Administrators
District Leadership Mental Health Specialists
Student Support Teams Behavior Specialists

Built by expert educators at the San Diego County Office of Education. Validated against more than 5 billion words of student voice data over the course of 2 years.

SDCOE Behavioral Health Rubric
→ From Screen To Support
Student Speaks
8:14 AM
6 prompts · 1 minute each Total response time: 5:38
Tier Assigned
Tier 2 · Auto
Auto-assigned in 0.3 seconds. No counselor review required.
Counselor List
Updated · 8:18 AM
One click → Percy's profile One click → Recommended Action
Support Scheduled
By 9:48 AM
Traditional cycle: 3 weeks IMPACTER cycle: 90 minutes
Sample Questions

Experience The Prompts To Hear
The Conversations They Open.

Each question explores one of six behavioral health domains. From emotional resilience to reflective growth, in the student's own words.

Self-Insight

Knowing Yourself

Recognizing who you are, the choices you've made, and what you've learned.

Self-Insight
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Emotional Resilience

When Things Get Hard

The strategies students use when things get difficult, in their own words.

Emotional Resilience
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Relational Awareness

Something Changed

How students describe relationships, friendships, and the people they care about.

Relational Awareness
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Conflict Resolution

Making It Right

The conversations students have with others when something needs fixing.

Conflict Resolution
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Effective Help-Seeking

Stronger Together

How students describe knowing when to ask for help, and who they trust.

Effective Help-Seeking
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Reflective Growth

What I've Learned

Describing personal growth, identifying change, setting goals for what's next.

Reflective Growth
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The Difference

What Surveys Miss. What Voice Reveals.

A Likert scale compresses a student's entire motivational architecture into a single number. Authentic voice preserves the behavioral health competencies that make that motivation real and duplicable.

✕  Traditional survey

Rate your feelings 1 to 5.

Student Wellness Check-In 3 of 3
Q1. I am motivated to succeed in school.
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Q2. I feel connected to people at my school.
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Q3. I have access to support when I need it.
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Student answered in ~8 seconds. No qualitative signal captured.

A score of "3" doesn't tell you why a student is motivated — or whether they're one tough week away from disengaging entirely.

✓  Authentic voice

Tell us what drives you. ↗

Student responding to behavioral health screener
Click to see what was detected →
"So I moved here to Lead Elementary. And I'm glad that I moved here because the school has given me the possibility to learnBelonging Moment, not get bullied, and just feel myself and express myself from everything I've learned. And I am happy here. And I love the support that I get from hereLearning Joy instead of that old school I used to go to. I wish that all students can just get a chance to meet new teachersCommunity Empathy, have a nicer community, and just have friends, cause I used to never have friends."
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BELONGING MOMENT · L4 · EXCEPTIONAL
"the school has given me the possibility to learn"
Student names the school as the direct enabler of growth — a clear before/after arc. Self-expression as the core benefit of belonging.
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LEARNING JOY · L3 · CLEAR
"And I am happy here. And I love the support that I get from here"
Sustained positive affect tied directly to school environment. Two belonging signals in one statement.
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COMMUNITY EMPATHY · L3 · CLEAR
"I wish that all students can just get a chance to meet new teachers"
Student generalizes her own experience outward — wishing belonging for all peers. Strong indicator of social belonging and perspective-taking.

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BHSSA State Validation Announcement
State Validation · BHSSA-002

The State Standard for Student Behavioral Health.

BHSSA-002 — Statewide evaluation of student behavioral health screening and outcomes. Impacter Pathway was chosen as the data infrastructure layer to build California's youth behavioral health performance management system in schools for the next decade.

CYBHI Reimbursement Model

Zero Net Cost For School Districts.

California's multi-payer fee schedule turns behavioral health screening from a budget line into a sustainable funding mechanism. Universal screening for all students now generates revenue rather than consuming it across the board.

$4.81
Per administration

Under CPT Code 96127, CYBHI's multi-payer fee schedule allows full reimbursement for all screening through third-party administrators.

$0
Net cost to districts

The screening pays for itself. For districts running universal screening at scale, this enables more dollars to spend on support.

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Eligible practitioner types

School Psychologists, Counselors, and Social Workers, can administer and generate reimbursement. No new hires required.

Eligible practitioners administer the screener; districts receive full reimbursement through third-party administrators. View the official CYBHI fee schedule →

Implementation Playbook

Seven Implementation Models.
Built From Real Schools.

Every model below has been run in a real school — by a real counselor, teacher, or administrator — with the schedules, device counts, and staffing they actually had on the day they launched.

BHS Implementation Playbook
Class Period Block
Universal coverage · 20–30 min.
Homeroom or advisory — all students, devices ready, minimal disruption.
Mobile Assessment Cart
Pop-up flexibility · K–12.
A rolling cart turns any corner, alcove, or outdoor space into a screening center.
Small-Group Testing
Quiet, controlled environment.
Wellness centers, libraries, and labs — for students who open up in calmer spaces.
Push-In Mini-Stations
Support / IEP-friendly.
4–6 stations run alongside regular instruction — accommodations without pulling students out.
Pull-Out Targeted
IEP/504 · multilingual · tech anxiety.
15–20 min. one-on-one in a resource room — built for every accommodation scenario.
Family-Assisted Remote
Homebound · absences · home setting.
Flexible window for students at home — step-by-step family flyer included.
Student-Guided Window
Self-paced completion.
Secondary students pick when and where — library, office, or home — with full tracking.
All 7 models →
Full logistics, scripts, and 30-minute launch sequences. Download the complete playbook (PDF).

Ready To Start Listening?

Your students have something important to say. IMPACTER creates the conditions where they can say it — and the infrastructure to act on what you hear.

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