MedCity News September 8, 2022
Marissa Plescia

Acquiring Shine will help Headspace Health improve its diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging efforts. Shine was first created in 2016 to provide mental health support to those in marginalized communities.

Amid a greater acknowledgment that minority and marginalized populations have specific mental health challenges that require cultural understanding, digital mental health provider Headspace Health announced Thursday that it has acquired an app that aims to be inclusive in providing mental health support to all.

The Shine app that was created by a Black woman and a half-Japanese woman has over 45,000 paid subscribers and over 90 enterprise clients. New York City-based Shine has reached more than 6 million people by offering self-guided content – that includes daily meditations, self-care courses...

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