(Get Results in Transition)

Helping Service members, National Guard members, Reservists, Veterans, their families, and Caregivers gain resiliency to be their best self by getting results through life and work resources all provided in the palm of their hand.

 

What is GRIT?

GRIT is a mobile app experience backed by leading edge technology that is designed to help Service members, National Guard members, Reservists, Veterans, Caregivers and their families gain personal insights into their emotional well-being, provide resources to improve their individual situations, connect with friends and family, and serve as a tool to build resiliency and overall well-being
GRIT, which stands for Getting Results in Transition, was developed in response to the growing concern about the rate of suicide among Veterans especially during the transition from activity duty to civilian life. Social determinants of health, including employment, housing, social connectedness, and finance all play a large role in the mental and physical health of Veterans and provide opportunities to prevent suicide. Employment and the task of finding a job once leaving the service is often cited as the number one concern of active duty service members and of Veterans during the transition period back to civilian life.
The GRIT mobile solution was designed to help our Service Members, National Guard members, Reservists, Veterans, Caregivers and their families gain personal insight into their emotional well-being, provide resources to improve their individual situations, and serve as a tool to build resiliency and overall well-being using technologies which address the social determinants of health. The first use case incorporated into the GRIT app today is Employment, with a feature that provides personalized job matching.

GRIT Features

The GRIT app is available for both iOS and Android smartphones and offers a number of cutting- edge features.
Personalized Job Matching

GRIT uses AI-backed technology to align a user’s background, skills, military experience, preferred location and job field with thousands of open jobs.

Through the integration of a job’s aggregator, GRIT is able to search through jobs posted to over 51,000 jobs sites including sites like Indeed.com, with new jobs posted on a daily basis. Users can easily upload a resume or take a picture of their resume to save their information, making it easy to apply to jobs found through the app.

Mind Gym

Everyone understands the need to stay physically active and mental health is just as important as physical health. The Mind Gym intends to help our users get and stay mentally fit.

This feature offers scientifically-backed assessments that measure areas of self-control, emotion, feeling, and cognition resulting in personalized brain training programs made up of mobile games and exercises that strengthen the user’s mental health and well-being.

Digital Self & Journal

GRIT uses technology to aggregate personalized data to create a digital representation of the individual, a “digital self”. GRIT gets to know each person individually, based on information provided safely and securely through the app, and offers insights and support to encourage an individual to be the best version of himself or herself.

For example, the GRIT app may suggest you re-take an assessment to see how your mental fitness has changed over the past month. Information on all of the activities completed within the app is available for you to review within your digital journal. Your privacy and confidentiality is our top priority. We collect the minimum amount of information needed, keep that information confidential and protected, and never share it with anyone.

Squad

Social connectedness is a critical component of emotional well-being. GRIT allows each user to assemble a squad, a network of close friends, family members and allies that can provide support, motivation, and social connectedness.

Users can add members to their squad directly from their contacts or can manually enter in the squad member’s name and phone number. A user can directly call or text a squad member from within the app, but more importantly your squad will receive a text suggesting they connect with you when your digital self-changes based on your Mind Gym assessment results, daily mood-scores, or interactions with the Digital Assistant. For example, if your Mind Gym results suggest that you may be veering towards depression, the app will text members of your squad and suggest they reach out to you. No information about your activity within the GRIT app and no personal information will be shared with your squad. They will simply be pro-actively prompted to reach out with the intent of caring contact meant to increase your social contact and sense of community.

Digital Assistant

GRIT uses artificial intelligence to provide a digital assistant that can respond directly to your questions and requests by providing support resources.

Are you looking for employment resources? Need help managing your work-life balance? The digital assistant has been trained in a number of areas, including employment and mental fitness, and can help you with everything from preparing for an interview to finding new ways to increase your work-life balance. Just ask the digital assistant…anytime.

Dynamic Navigation

GRIT was designed to continually suggest activities for you to complete within the app and to make it easy to navigate through all of GRIT’s functional areas. Event driven card navigation augments standard device navigation to provide real time access to current events and activities.

For example, the first time you log-in, GRIT’s dashboard will prompt you to complete your one time profile creation, take your first Mind Gym assessment and to set up your employment profile so the app can begin looking for jobs that match your skill set and service history.

Field Test

Thank you for your interest in the GRIT Field Test. Due to limited timing, we have shut down field test participant registration at this time. Please continue to monitor this webpage for additional information on when the GRIT app will become availale to the public.

The goal of the field test is to evaluate the participants use of the app by analyzing data collected using the following mechanisms:

  1. Normal Operation: Users are able to install and operate the app without individual instruction
  2. Feedback Collection: We are able to gather feedback around the user experience and suggestions for improvement
  3. Usage Analysis: Data collected helps us evaluate adoption and usage of the app and provides insight on areas of improvement

The field test is set to begin August 28, 2019 and will last until November 22, 2019.

In support of a successful field test, we ask that you do the following:

  • Register to participate by selecting the “Register for the Field Test” button below and entering in your information on the registration page
  • Download the GRIT app once it becomes available on the morning of August 28, 2019 *
  • Attend a kick-off meeting** (if you are able) that walks you through downloading the app and answering any initial questions
  • Respond to short surveys within the app
  • Attend bi-weekly meetings** (if you are able) to provide feedback
  • iOS users will need a special app to download the GRIT app. The link provided in your personalized email will automatically install both apps.
  • Android users will need to provide their Google Account information so we can provide them access to the App from the Google Play Store. The link provided in your personalized email will direct you to the Google PlayStore to download the GRIT app and accept the Beta testing agreement.

*You will be provided an email with a link to automate the process but because the GRIT app is still in testing or “Beta” mode, the app download experience will be as follows:

**All kick-off meetings and bi-weekly meetings will be held via free conference call. Meetings will be held multiple times to provide a number of options for participants to attend.

We will be holding a series of calls every other week to preview what improvements will be contained within the next release and to answer any questions that you may have.

We hope you have been able to download the GRIT app and start to explore all of its features and functionality. As we are still in the field test, we would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for improvement.

To do so, we have engineered a number of ways to provide us with your thoughts and firsthand experiences. All of these feedback channels have been designed to gather as much feedback from our users as possible to help us to continue to improve and better serve the Veteran population.

  1. In-App Surveys – In addition, the bi-weekly calls, we will push a new survey to you every other week via a card on your dashboard. The survey should take under 10 minutes to complete and all survey responses are confidential.
  2. Dashboard Feedback – A dashboard card will soon be released to all users of the app in order to allow you to submit instant feedback to us directly via the app.
  3. GRIT Service Desk – As always, please feel free to call or email our help desk with any questions, comments, or suggestions.

iOS Release Notes

We are using your survey responses, calls to the help desk, and feedback to update the GRIT app by enhancing the user experience and making the app more reliable.

Outlined below are a couple of the enhancements and bug fixes that you can expect to find in the latest update and some enhancements that are planned for future releases.

What is New:
  • You will now be able to use the digital self to track your progress within the Mind Gym by comparing the results of your most recent Mind Gym assessments.
  • We have made updates to the app that will improve your experience if you are using an iPhone SE. You should now be able to fully see all graphics and clearly read all text within the app.
  • We have made an update to the employment section, including the ability to attach multiple occupational specialty codes to user employment profiles, to search for jobs across multiple industries, and to search across a wider variety of job types.
Bug Fixes:
  • We have made changes to our environment to decrease network outages that make the GRIT app inaccessible for a time period and result in an error message that say “Oh No! A Network Error has Occurred”
  • Crashes that occurred while you attempted to access the digital journal have been addressed

Android Release Notes

We are using your survey responses, calls to the help desk, and feedback to update the GRIT app by enhancing the user experience and making the app more reliable.

Outlined below are a couple of the enhancements and bug fixes that you can expect to find in the latest update and some enhancements that are planned for future releases.

What is New:
  • You will now be able to use the digital self to track your progress within the Mind Gym by comparing the results of your most recent Mind Gym assessments.
  • We have made an update to the employment section, including the ability to attach multiple occupational specialty codes to user employment profiles, to search for jobs across multiple industries, and to search across a wider variety of job types.
Bug Fixes:
  • We have made changes to our environment to decrease network outages that make the GRIT app inaccessible for a time period and result in an error message that say “Oh No! A Network Error has Occurred”
  • Crashes that occurred during sign up and the use of biometric login even if your device did not support that capability have been addressed.
  • Crashes that occurred when you were trying to configure your Mind Gym profile have been addressed.
  • Crashes that occurred when you attempted to quickly navigate out of a Mind Gym exercise have been addressed
  • You are now able to return to the same place you left from if you had previously only partially completed a Mind Gym assessment.