Manage your personal wellness journey and earn achievements as your sidekick guides you through a series of daily quests designed to establish and sustain positive habits.
Check-in with how you are feeling each day
Use coping skills
Keep track of appointments and medications
Get started on tasks
Follow self-care routines
Increase real-life socialization
BoosterBuddy 1.7 is now available!
Thanks to feedback from our app users and the generous support of Coast Capital Savings and the Victoria Hospitals Foundation, #BoosterBuddy is even better!
We have added new coping skills for Eating Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Persistent Pain and Urges to Self Harm. We have also created a journal section to record general thoughts, celebrate personal effort, save favourite quotes and practice gratitude and self-compassion. Other updates include the ability to save quests for later, encouraging notes from your buddy each time you check in and more daily medication reminder slots.
Interested in contributing to the maintenance and further development of the app? Use this link to make a monetary donation to support BoosterBuddy: https://www.victoriahf.ca/boosterbuddy/
Hear from our Clinical Lead and Youth Design Team that helped bring this app to life
Acknowledgements
Booster Buddy was created by Island Health in collaboration with teens and young adults with lived experience. This app was made possible thanks to the generous support of Coast Capital Savings and the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.
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