[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":323},["ShallowReactive",2],{"partner-en-uvic":3,"partner-events-uvic":322},{"doc":4,"fallback":321},{"id":5,"title":6,"audience":7,"author":20,"authorBio":21,"authorJobTitle":22,"authorSlug":23,"benefits":24,"benefitsTitle":24,"body":25,"category":224,"coverage":226,"description":67,"eventsTag":33,"excerpt":24,"extension":236,"featured":237,"heroBg":24,"heroBgSvg":238,"heroQuote":239,"heroQuoteAuthor":240,"image":241,"imageHeight":242,"imageWidth":243,"keyFigures":244,"latestUpdate":253,"location":255,"meta":260,"navigation":237,"partnerLinks":261,"partnerPortal":237,"partnerSince":265,"path":266,"publishedAt":267,"research":268,"seo":292,"slug":33,"stats":24,"status":293,"stem":294,"tags":295,"theme":33,"timeline":304,"type":318,"updatedAt":319,"whyHeading":24,"__hash__":320},"partners\u002Fpartners\u002Fuvic.md","HiBoop Announces Partnership with the University of Victoria",[8,12,16],{"label":9,"blurb":10,"href":11},"Run a training clinic?","We work with clinics like UVic, academic, supervisory, accredited.","\u002Fcbh\u002F",{"label":13,"blurb":14,"href":15},"Faculty at another psychology dept?","Get in touch about replicating this work at your institution.","\u002Fcontact\u002F",{"label":17,"blurb":18,"href":19},"Solo or group practice?","Same MBC platform, configured for outpatient workflow.","\u002Fhow\u002F","Ryan Lainchbury","Ryan Lainchbury is a founding team member at HiBoop. He writes about the clinical science behind measurement-based care and the practical challenges of building tools that actually work in a therapy room.","Founding Team, HiBoop","ryan-lainchbury",null,{"type":26,"value":27,"toc":216},"minimark",[28,130,133,136,144,147,150,155,163,166,169,172,174,178,182,185,191,197,204,206,209],[29,30,34,42,45,52,55,61,64],"press-release",{"date":31,"location":32,"theme":33},"2026-05-05","Victoria, BC","uvic",[35,36,37,41],"p",{},[38,39,40],"strong",{},"HiBoop and the University of Victoria partner to modernize mental-health services at the UVic Psychology Clinic."," The collaboration digitizes clinical assessments at the clinic, streamlines administrative work for graduate clinicians, and grounds HiBoop's recommendation engine in peer-reviewed comorbidity research conducted at UVic.",[35,43,44],{},"The UVic Psychology Clinic is a CPA-accredited training environment where graduate clinicians work with real patients from the broader Victoria community, including children, adults, couples, and families. The clinic carries active research depth in Indigenous mental health, an area where standard assessment tools consistently fall short.",[46,47],"quoted-figure",{"name":48,"photo":49,"quote":50,"role":51},"Dr. Jill Robinson","\u002Fimg\u002Fcontent\u002Finsights\u002Fjill-robinson.webp","Research shows that regularly screening and tracking mental health over time leads to better outcomes for patients. Using modern tools in a clinical setting will alleviate the administrative burden and surface clinical signals, allowing more time to focus on the therapeutic relationship.","Clinic Director, UVic Psychology Clinic",[35,53,54],{},"Dr. Jill Robinson, Clinic Director, and research assistant Cole Smith spent months reviewing HiBoop's recommendation logic against the peer-reviewed literature. They mapped comorbidity relationships, tested how demographic and contextual factors shift the clinical picture, and identified where the algorithm needed to be sharper. Those findings are now embedded in the product.",[46,56],{"name":57,"photo":58,"quote":59,"role":60},"Jason Morehouse","\u002Fimg\u002Fteam\u002Fjasonm.jpg","At HiBoop, we build solutions so people can get the right care when they need it. Too many patients face needless delays in diagnosis and treatment. Partnering with UVic was a natural fit, as a local company with alumni from UVic's psychology programs, we're proud to support the next generation.","CEO, HiBoop",[35,62,63],{},"The partnership also creates a new learning opportunity for graduate students. \"We're pleased this partnership has created a new learning opportunity for students that features rigorous privacy protections,\" said Robinson.",[65,66,68,73,84,88,96,100,116],"template",{"v-slot:boilerplate":67},"",[69,70,72],"h3",{"id":71},"about-hiboop","About HiBoop",[35,74,75,76,83],{},"HiBoop is a mental-health technology company using machine learning to improve access to diagnosis and treatment. The platform offers digitized validated assessment delivery and a measurement-based care system that turns validated scales (PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, and 50+ others) into a longitudinal record clinicians can act on. HiBoop is a Certified B Corporation, a Living Wage Employer, and is privacy-by-default, PHIPA \u002F PIPEDA compliant, and Canadian-hosted. Learn more at ",[77,78,82],"a",{"href":79,"rel":80},"https:\u002F\u002Fhiboop.com\u002F",[81],"nofollow","hiboop.com",".",[69,85,87],{"id":86},"about-the-university-of-victoria","About the University of Victoria",[35,89,90,91,83],{},"UVic is a research-intensive institution serving more than 22,000 students on British Columbia's coast, with a research focus on climate action, social determinants of health, and Indigenous reconciliation. The UVic Psychology Clinic, operated by the Department of Psychology, is CPA-accredited and provides affordable, evidence-based assessment and therapy services to the greater Victoria community while training the next generation of clinical psychologists. Learn more at ",[77,92,95],{"href":93,"rel":94},"https:\u002F\u002Fonlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\u002Fpsychologyclinic\u002F",[81],"the clinic's website",[69,97,99],{"id":98},"media-contact","Media Contact",[35,101,102,105,108,109,111,115],{},[38,103,104],{},"HiBoop",[106,107],"br",{},"\nKat Baiborodin, The PR Hat",[106,110],{},[77,112,114],{"href":113},"mailto:kat@theprhat.com","kat@theprhat.com"," · 416-464-7201",[35,117,118,121,123,124,126],{},[38,119,120],{},"University of Victoria",[106,122],{},"\nSimone Blais, UVic Communications and Marketing",[106,125],{},[77,127,129],{"href":128},"mailto:uvicnews@uvic.ca","uvicnews@uvic.ca",[131,132],"double-divider",{},[35,134,135],{},"There are tools built on intuition, and tools built on evidence. We have always wanted HiBoop to be the latter: a platform where every recommendation has a reason, and every reason can be traced back to research.",[35,137,138,139,143],{},"Earlier this year, we took a significant step toward that goal. We partnered with ",[77,140,142],{"href":93,"rel":141},[81],"Jill Robinson, Ph.D., R.Psych",", Clinical Director at the University of Victoria Psychology Clinic, and Cole Smith, Research Assistant, to put our recommendation logic under the microscope.",[35,145,146],{},"The result is a meaningful upgrade to how HiBoop thinks, and a partnership we are genuinely proud of.",[148,149],"hr",{},[151,152,154],"h2",{"id":153},"why-an-academic-partnership-matters","Why an academic partnership matters",[35,156,157,158,162],{},"HiBoop's recommendation engine is what sets us apart. When a clinician administers an assessment, the platform doesn't just score it; it interprets the result in clinical context and suggests what to assess next. That is the core of ",[77,159,161],{"href":160},"\u002Fmbc\u002F","measurement-based care"," done well, and that logic needs to be right.",[35,164,165],{},"Getting it right means going beyond what any one clinical team knows. It means leaning on peer-reviewed research, population-level data, and the kind of rigorous analysis that a dedicated research team can provide.",[35,167,168],{},"The UVic Psychology Clinic operates on what the field calls the scientist-practitioner model: a CPA-accredited training environment where research and clinical work are not separate tracks but the same activity. The clinic serves real patients from the greater Victoria community: children, adults, couples, and families. Indigenous mental health is an active area of faculty research, not an afterthought. That combination of academic rigour, live clinical exposure, and specific depth in the populations most often underserved by standard assessment tools is what made this the right partnership.",[35,170,171],{},"UVic brought exactly that. Their team mapped the relationships between assessments, identified how demographic and contextual factors shape clinical outcomes, and showed us where our existing logic needed to be sharper. Those findings are now embedded in HiBoop's core algorithm.",[148,173],{},[151,175,177],{"id":176},"what-changed-and-why-it-matters-clinically","What changed, and why it matters clinically",[69,179,181],{"id":180},"comorbidity-driven-recommendations","Comorbidity-driven recommendations",[35,183,184],{},"The most direct outcome of UVic's research is a much stronger model of how conditions co-occur, and how that should shape what gets assessed next.",[35,186,187,190],{},[38,188,189],{},"ACE scores and cascading risk."," An ACE score of 4 or more is associated with meaningfully elevated risk across a range of outcomes: depression, substance use, trauma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and more. The link is well-established in the literature, but the question for us was: does our algorithm respond to it? It does now. A score of 4 or higher on the ACE automatically surfaces recommendations for substance use screening (ASSIST-V3 or TAPS), depression (PHQ-9 or DASS), and trauma (PCL-5 or PC-PTSD-5).",[35,192,193,196],{},[38,194,195],{},"ADHD and its frequent companions."," The comorbidity picture is equally striking, co-occurrence rates for autism, anxiety, bipolar, and depression are summarized in the Research lane below. We use those rates to weight our recommendations by clinical priority. In practice: a high ASRS score now triggers RAADS-R, GAD-7, MDQ, and PHQ-9, in that order.",[35,198,199,200,83],{},"Five further changes landed in the algorithm, risk-tiered sequencing, demographic sensitivity, clinical-context awareness, recovery and function tracking, and mind–body intersections. The full clinical write-up lives in ",[77,201,203],{"href":202},"\u002Finsights\u002Fuvic-comorbidity-research\u002F","Inside the UVic research",[148,205],{},[35,207,208],{},"The algorithm is not replacing clinical judgment. It is informing it. Every recommendation is a prompt for the clinician, not a prescription. But the prompts are now grounded in evidence in a way they weren't before.",[35,210,211,212,83],{},"Learn more about the ",[77,213,215],{"href":93,"rel":214},[81],"University of Victoria Psychology Clinic",{"title":67,"searchDepth":217,"depth":217,"links":218},2,[219,220],{"id":153,"depth":217,"text":154},{"id":176,"depth":217,"text":177,"children":221},[222],{"id":180,"depth":223,"text":181},3,[225],"clinical-insights",[227,231],{"source":228,"url":229,"date":31,"caption":230},"Yahoo Finance","https:\u002F\u002Ffinance.yahoo.com\u002Fsectors\u002Fhealthcare\u002Farticles\u002Fhiboop-university-victoria-partner-modernize-140000901.html","HiBoop and the University of Victoria announce a partnership to digitize clinical assessments at the UVic Psychology Clinic, modernizing the assessment workflow for both clinical training and patient care.",{"source":232,"url":233,"date":234,"caption":235},"CHEK News","https:\u002F\u002Fcheknews.ca\u002Fuvic-psychology-offering-affordable-access-to-mental-health-care-1310216\u002F","2026-03-26","CHEK News covers the UVic Psychology Clinic and its work bringing affordable mental health care to the Victoria community.","md",true,"victoria","This work would not exist without them. We are grateful for the partnership and proud of what we've done.","Jason Morehouse, Founding Team, HiBoop","\u002Fimg\u002Fog\u002Fuvic-partnership.jpg",630,1200,[245,249],{"name":142,"role":246,"institution":215,"institutionLogo":247,"photo":49,"url":93,"bio":248},"Clinical Director","\u002Fimg\u002Fuvic-wordmark.svg","Jill Robinson leads the UVic Psychology Clinic and brought her team's expertise in population-level mental health research to this collaboration. Her leadership shaped the clinical rigour behind every recommendation change described here.",{"name":250,"role":251,"institution":215,"institutionLogo":247,"bio":252},"Cole Smith","Research Assistant","Cole's research into assessment relationships, comorbidity patterns, and clinical sequencing formed the foundation of everything described in this article. His contributions will shape how HiBoop works, and by extension how clinicians deliver care, for a long time to come.",{"date":31,"location":32,"headline":254,"kind":29},"HiBoop announces partnership with the University of Victoria",{"venue":256,"address":257,"mapsUrl":258,"localMapUrl":259},"UVic Psychology Clinic","Continuing Studies Building, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2","https:\u002F\u002Fmaps.google.com\u002F?q=UVic+Psychology+Clinic,+Continuing+Studies+Building,+University+of+Victoria","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.uvic.ca\u002Fsearch\u002Fmaps\u002Findex.php",{},[262],{"label":263,"url":93,"variant":264},"Connect with UVic Psychology Clinic","btn-primary","2026-03-17","\u002Fpartners\u002Fuvic","2026-03-17T09:00:00Z",{"headline":269,"bullets":270,"chart":274},"What changed in the algorithm",[271,272,273],"ACE score ≥ 4 now auto-triggers screens for substance use (ASSIST-V3 \u002F TAPS), depression (PHQ-9 \u002F DASS), and trauma (PCL-5 \u002F PC-PTSD-5).","ADHD presentations route to RAADS-R, GAD-7, MDQ, and PHQ-9, in that order, to catch the comorbidities the literature shows are most likely.","Recommendation logic now grounded in peer-reviewed comorbidity literature instead of internal heuristics.",{"title":275,"subtitle":276,"source":277,"maxValue":278,"items":279},"ADHD co-occurrence rates","Conditions that co-occur with ADHD, by frequency","Peer-reviewed literature; UVic Psychology Clinic comorbidity analysis",70,[280,283,286,289],{"label":281,"value":282},"Major Depressive Disorder",22,{"label":284,"value":285},"Bipolar Disorder",24.8,{"label":287,"value":288},"Generalized Anxiety Disorder",31.5,{"label":290,"value":291,"highlight":237},"Autism Spectrum Disorder",59,{"title":6,"description":67},"published","partners\u002Fuvic",[296,297,298,299,33,300,301,302,303],"research","algorithm","measurement-based-care","comorbidity","clinical-intelligence","adhd-autism-comorbidity","aces","recovery-capital",[305,308,311,315],{"date":265,"label":306,"body":307},"Partnership begins","Jill Robinson, Ph.D., R.Psych and Cole Smith join HiBoop to review the recommendation engine against peer-reviewed comorbidity literature.",{"date":234,"label":309,"body":310},"First media coverage","CHEK News profiles the UVic Psychology Clinic and its work bringing affordable mental health care to the Victoria community.",{"date":312,"label":313,"body":314},"2026-04-22","Algorithm changes land","Five comorbidity-driven changes deploy: ACE cascade, ADHD\u002FRAADS-R sequencing, demographic sensitivity, recovery and function tracking, mind–body intersections.",{"date":31,"label":316,"body":317},"Partnership announced","Joint press release: HiBoop and the University of Victoria formalize the research and clinical training collaboration.","post","2026-03-25T09:00:00Z","IrjQtOL-IWaRfVf5bUQBUXLEh3ILiOuN3arYEU_-zY4",false,[],1779298792358]