Pause A Moment (PAM)
PAM is live! Try it here.
An adaptive, tailored educational platform to improve resilience and well-being.
Development: Summer 2020 | Release: Fall 2021
Supported by the Huang Family Foundation
Designed by and for healthcare workers.
About Pause A Moment (PAM)
Pause A Moment (PAM) is an educational platform that teaches skills designed to improve one’s emotional well-being. PAM focuses on the well-being of healthcare workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing opportunities to learn and practice tools aimed towards cultivating effective coping, self-care, and resilience-building, among others.
PAM’s built-in user tracking and customization enables the platform to progressively adapt the user experience to individuals’ usage patterns. Though initially developed using the perspectives of healthcare workers, PAM is designed for a general user population. We hope for the platform to support a variety of evidence-based tools beyond those already included.
PAM was developed by Stanford University School of Medicine faculty working with faculty and students from Stanford, the University of Michigan, Palo Alto University, and Columbia University, in collaboration with healthcare workers.
How is PAM funded?
PAM is funded through the generous support of philanthropic donors. The Huang Family Foundation provided the initial support for development and deployment. In the future, we will use a combination of philanthropic funding and licensing agreements with institutions to ensure that PAM remains accessible to all.
Can I donate to help sustain PAM?
We would be honored if you chose to support our efforts to continually improve, expand and share PAM as well as other new digital based-mental health tools.
To make a gift online: · Go to: medicalgiving.stanford.edu/ · Click on the blue “make a gift” tab in the upper right bar · Under “Direct your gift”, select the dropdown “Other Stanford Designation” · In the comments/gift instructions box, note: This gift is intended to support Pause a Moment (PAM), in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine. · Then follow the prompts.
To make a gift via check: · Please make your check payable to Stanford University · In the memo line, indicate Pause a Moment (PAM), Psychiatry · Also include a note that includes: This gift is intended to support Pause a Moment (PAM), in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral sciences. · Mail to: Medical Center Development 485 Broadway Street, 4th Floor Redwood City, CA 94063 MC 5470 (650) 725-2504