About Us

MATAspire (Mental health Awareness Tailored App for Substance Prevention and Integrated Resilience Education) is a 5-year grant, led by Dr. Bethany Rainisch (Health Sciences). MATAspire has developed a substance use prevention and coping skills webapp, with a focus on promoting coping skills, resilience, and health and wellness activities. You can also find prevention resources on our website, and during events on campus.

Through the development of our webapp and through promoting mental health and wellbeing resources, our mission is to increase awareness about substance use and mental health, reduce risky behavior, and reduce the stigma behind substance misuse and mental health among students on campus.

This grant is funded by the federal agency, SAMHSA.

If you are looking for information regarding our previous SAMHSA-funded grant, iSTART, you can contact bethany.rainisch@csun.edu.