New York, NY – March 2, 2026 – Mantra Health, the preeminent mental health and wellness provider built exclusively for higher education, today announced the public launch of ADHD Collaborative Care, a newly refined offering which provides institutions with a rigorous, standardized pathway for ADHD assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. 

Despite ADHD being one of the most common conditions affecting college students, with 12.3% of students showing clinical-level symptoms of ADHD, those with the disorder are nearly 50% less likely to graduate from a four-year program than their peers. Many institutions and their surrounding communities lack the specialized resources required for the intensive multi-step evaluations needed to diagnose students, let alone support their long-term treatment plans. Mantra Health’s ADHD Collaborative Care was designed to solve this, providing institutions with a more rigorous, clinically-integrated extension of internal clinical and medical teams to ensure that students with ADHD are given the support needed to persist and thrive on campus.

“Lack of access to ADHD evaluations is a critical barrier to student success and retention. Our new, comprehensive, evidence-based program offers colleges and universities a rigorous, streamlined telehealth solution for diagnosis and care. This integrated approach, enabled by our proprietary Collaboration technology, ensures high diagnostic accuracy and rapid clinical access, providing students with the assessment and treatment they need to be successful and documentation they need to receive reasonable accommodations on campus,” said Carla Chugani, PhD, LPC, VP of Clinical Programs at Mantra Health. 

Institutional benefits of ADHD Collaborative Care:

• Comprehensive, evidence-based ADHD evaluation and diagnosis. Mantra Health uses a multi-modal evaluation framework that combines self-report symptom scales, diagnostic clinical interviews, medical history reviews, and third-party documentation. By integrating FDA-cleared, CE-marked objective testing, including advanced continuous performance metrics, Mantra Health builds a multi-faceted clinical picture of the student to diagnose ADHD, develop a treatment plan, and support on-campus accommodations. 

• Reduced time to evaluation, enabling better outcomes. By bypassing long waitlists and limited local referral options, Mantra Health provides a streamlined path to evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. This removes traditional barriers to care and supports high-quality documentation for accommodations, leading to improved clinical outcomes and academic persistence.

• Clinical collaboration. Mantra Health has developed clear guidelines for establishing eligibility, referral, or need for a full neuropsychiatric assessment. The company’s proprietary Collaboration Portal enables on-campus staff to directly refer students to Mantra Health’s specialized psychiatric providers, collaborate on medication management with DEA-licensed primary care prescribers, and share evaluation results, notes, and treatment recommendations. This ensures proper prescribing of medications, including stimulants, increases confidence in quality medication management, and provides seamless care as students transition from diagnosis to ongoing treatment management. 

Untreated ADHD is associated with a 79% decline in achievement test outcomes and students with ADHD are nearly 20% less likely to persist through eight semesters of college compared to their peers. Even with a diagnosis, students can face multiple challenges, especially considering 58.4% have a comorbid disorder, such as major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, or bipolar disorder. 

With a proper diagnosis and the right treatment plan and accommodations in place, students with ADHD are significantly more likely to persist, remain enrolled, and reach their academic goals. Mantra Health’s evaluation process is designed to provide this essential foundation and can be supported by wraparound support services, including self-guided wellness courses, peer support, one-on-one coaching, virtual therapy, psychiatry, 24/7 crisis support, and intensive outpatient programming (IOP). 

The introduction of Mantra Health’s newly refined ADHD Collaborative Care offering follows the recent expansion of the executive leadership team and the launch of Beacon, collectively supporting the company’s ongoing commitment to provide a seamless, data-driven continuum of care that promotes student well-being and aids in student persistence and retention. ADHD Collaborative Care helps empower college counseling centers and health centers to help these students without overextending their internal staff and expand access to specialized clinical expertise to ensure proper assessment, diagnosis, and a treatment plan for ADHD.

About Mantra Health

Mantra Health is the digital mental health provider built exclusively for higher education. Supporting mental health, wellness, and student persistence, Mantra Health offers a comprehensive suite of services, including self-guided wellness courses, peer support, coaching, therapy, psychiatry, 24/7 crisis intervention, intensive outpatient programming (IOP), as well as persistence intelligence technologies. Spanning the entire care continuum, Mantra Health provides comprehensive digital support to every member of the student body while using predictive modeling to identify those at high risk of dropout and extensive population analytics. From acceptance to graduation, Mantra Health ensures that both proactive wellness and targeted intervention are always within reach. Currently deployed across 150+ colleges and universities, Mantra Health serves over 1.3 million students and is actively reimagining how institutions manage mental well-being and student success.