Our student partners
The students that we support and who work with us
Linkmate Resilience Blueprint
Your students’ #1 social network for support
Linkmate is a peer-to-peer social network for emotional support, helping tertiary students feel less lonely and more comfortable opening up, whilst helping counselling and psychological teams free up time and resources to make a bigger difference to student wellbeing.
How does Linkmate work?
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Download the app
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Request a chat, choose a topic you want to talk about and filter by age & gender.
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Select a Mate that’s right for you.
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Chat with someone who gets what you’re going through.
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Track your progress to see how far you’ve come!
Students will:
Sign up to the app.
Request a chat, choose a topic they want to talk about, and filter by age & gender.
Select a Mate that’s right for them (can be a fellow student from your community).
Chat with someone who gets what they’re going through, helping them feel less lonely and understood.
Track their progress to see how far they’ve come.
Linkmate gives you a robust, 360-degree view of what well-being looks like in your community!
Our non-clinical student wellbeing management system uniquely blends evidence-based, quantitative and qualitative data measurement scales so you can:
Complement and enrich data captured from existing counselling and psychological services.
Easily understand how students are feeling and why
Feel more confident in how to strategic tailor various events and programs to support your students
Make it your own!
The Linkmate app can be easily white-labelled with your organisation’s logo, branding and even local university services for streamlined triage, because of the customisable nature of our tech.
What this means is that:
You can feel confident that this can easily slot in and integrate with your existing counselling and psychological services.
There’s a clear path of care for students to access your local support services through Linkmate.
You get peace of mind that there are no students who may fall through the cracks.
Research with RMIT showed that students feel better connected to others, deal with their problems better and feel more optimistic about the future after using the Linkmate app:
Help your students feel the same way these do:
Here are a few other FAQs we get a lot:
Mates are volunteers with a passion for helping others and a desire to use their own story to inspire hope. All Mates must successfully pass a training course, meet with the Linkmate team and provide evidence of a national police clearance check before providing support.
Linkmate creates a safe environment where students can chat about anything and everything. Mates are available to chat about relationships, family, eating, work, loneliness and anything else they may be concerned about. Students can use the app to get whatever it is off their chest right away.
Not at all. Students can use an alias or a nickname to preserve anonymity. If they sign up with their full name, only their first name will ever be visible to the Mate they connect with.
Students must be 18 years of age or over to use Linkmate.
Yes! Security is our top priority, and we built Linkmate from the ground up to ensure your students, Mates and chatrooms are secure. We maintain the privacy and confidentiality of all users through API-level database security measures.
Linkmate is not for extreme or severe mental health issues. If you or someone you know is in a crisis, contact 13 11 14 (Lifeline Australia), free of charge. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 000.