About Willo

As a student, your well-being is shaped by more than just your habits—it’s influenced by life’s ups and downs. A bad grade, the stress of finding housing, or anxiety about an upcoming presentation can all take a toll on your wellness. It’s easy to get caught up in the daily grind and forget about self-care, Willo helps you recognize these aspects in their curated Collections.

Willo is an innovative mental health and wellness app developed by the Jacobs Center for Health Innovation (JCHI) in collaboration with UC San Diego. Designed with the student experience at its core, Willo provides personalized support with curated events and critical campus resources and tools recommended  by students.

College isn’t just about exams—it’s about living a balanced, fulfilling life. Willo makes it easy to fulfill your wellness needs with curated collections and actionable events. Download the app today and take charge of your wellness journey!

Key Features:

• Recommendation Engine: Willo uses a sophisticated recommendation engine to suggest Collections, Resources and Events align with each student's preferences and engagement with the app - making it easier to find relevant support.
• Collections: Willo curates content into eight wellness categories so users can quickly and easily explore its offerings.
• User Gamification: The new Willo Wellness Tree lets users easily track progress across all wellness categories by letting them check off completion of items within the app.

Health Wheel:

Willo includes the "Wellness Wheel" concept, providing a holistic view of a student's well-being across various dimensions, such as mental, physical, academic, and social health. The wellness categories are mapped to all of the resources and events on campus helping students identify areas of strength and those that may need a little more attention, promoting a balanced approach to overall wellness.

Collections:

The app offers curated "Collections" of resources tailored to specific themes or needs, such as stress management, academic support, or social connection. These collections make it easy for students to access curated and relevant resources and events for each user.

Personal Willo Wellness Tree

Willo user's profile page is more personalized and intuitive than ever. The new Willo Wellness Tree lets students easily track your progress across all wellness categories while connecting them to resources, collections, and events that matter most to them. The interactive feature visually displays areas of interest from where users have marked items as "Complete." Users can self report and check off these boxes after attending events, or worked their way through an entire collection. Once checked the progress shows as success buds on their Willo tree.

Upcoming Features:

Willo is continually evolving to better serve students. The team is actively working on developing new features like personal calendar integration, peer journey stories, content from on campus health providers.

By integrating these features, Willo aims to transform how students perceive and prioritize their physical and mental health, fostering a campus culture that empowers students to take charge of their well-being.

We want to hear from you!

The app is designed to grow with users, and we would love your input on what comes next. If you have ideas for new articles, videos, guides, or other resources, you can share them through our Content Recommendations Form. If you would like to suggest a new collection to organize content around an event, campaign, project, or theme, you can do so through our Collection Suggestions Form. Your ideas help shape Willo into a resource that’s more useful, collaborative, and tailored to what matters most to students.

Willo is available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play App Store, providing students with a centralized platform to manage their well-being and access the university's wellness resources efficiently.