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Getting Started

Platform setup, account creation, and initial configuration for schools, health centers, and community organizations.

12 articles
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Platform Features

How the platform works — the Member App, Coach Portal, Client Org Portal, and VLAP clinical coordination infrastructure.

18 articles
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Billing & Pricing

Pricing plans, Medicaid billing setup and documentation, Title I funding, and organizational contract questions.

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Clinical Support

Clinical workflows, warm handoff protocols, VLAP signal context interpretation, coach-clinician communication, and outcome tracking.

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Technical Support

Troubleshooting, system requirements, browser compatibility, API integration, SSO/SCIM setup, and data export.

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Compliance & Privacy

HIPAA compliance, FERPA alignment, WCAG accessibility, SOC 2 Type II documentation, BAA execution, and privacy policy.

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Setting Up Your Organization Account
Complete guide to creating and configuring your Vasl Health account — for schools, community health centers, and organizational partners. Covers enrollment setup, clinical network integration, and the Client Org Portal.
Understanding VLAP — The Vasl Language Analysis Platform
How CulturalBERT-VLAP detects culturally specific distress signals across five behavioral dimensions and surfaces interpretive context to licensed clinicians. What it does, what it doesn't do, and who sees its output.
Clinical Workflows — Using VLAP Signal Context Before Sessions
How to read and apply dimensional signal context from VLAP as a licensed clinician. Covers the Coach Portal pre-session view, signal dimension interpretation, cultural context notes, and the distinction between interpretive context and clinical diagnosis.
Medicaid Billing — Documentation, CPT Codes, and Recovery
Step-by-step guide to school-based and community health center Medicaid billing for Vasl deployments. Includes CPT code mapping, documentation export formats, and estimated recovery rates for Title I districts.
System Requirements & Browser Compatibility
Recommended system specifications and supported browsers for the Member App, Coach Portal, and Client Org Portal. iOS and Android requirements, bandwidth recommendations, and accessibility tool compatibility.
HIPAA Compliance — Technical Safeguards and BAA Execution
How Vasl Health implements HIPAA technical safeguards across all platform components. Covers PHI handling, the in-memory VLAP processing architecture, BAA requirements, audit logging, and annual SOC 2 Type II audit.

Frequently asked
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Answers to the questions we receive most often from school administrators, organizational partners, clinicians, and members. For questions not covered here, contact support at support@vaslhealth.com.

How does VLAP differ from other mental health AI platforms?

VLAP — the Vasl Language Analysis Platform — is specifically trained on 198,000+ language samples from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth communities, including 2,400+ AAVE and youth vernacular tokens that standard NLP models have never encountered. It detects culturally specific distress signals across five behavioral dimensions and surfaces that context to licensed clinicians before sessions — not to members, not to school staff, not to administrators. Standard platforms apply general sentiment models to diverse populations. VLAP was built from inside the communities it reads.

VLAP — Vasl Language Analysis Platform
Does VLAP communicate with members or respond to their messages?

No. VLAP is not a chatbot and does not interact with members in any way. It processes language that members share through care channels — check-ins and coach messaging — and surfaces dimensional signal context to licensed clinicians before sessions. Members interact with certified coaches (human), peer groups (human-moderated), and licensed clinicians (human). VLAP operates behind the clinical layer, invisible to members, coaches, and school staff.

Clinician-facing only
What are the system requirements for using Vasl Health?

Vasl Health is a web-based platform that runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge — with no software installation required. The Member App is optimized for mobile (iOS 12+ and Android 8+) and desktop. We recommend a stable internet connection. For clinicians accessing the Coach Portal with VLAP signal data, we recommend a device with a screen wide enough to use the two-column session context view comfortably — a tablet in landscape or a laptop minimum.

How does Medicaid billing work with Vasl?

Vasl provides the billing documentation — CPT codes, service records, provider credentials — formatted for your district's or organization's Medicaid billing system. We do not bill Medicaid directly on your behalf; we equip your finance team to do so. For qualifying Title I school deployments, approximately 50% of contract cost is recoverable through school-based Medicaid billing for qualifying services. The estimated net district cost after billing recovery is under $18 per student per year at typical enrollment levels. Your exact recovery depends on your state Medicaid plan and student eligibility rates — we model this during your implementation scoping process.

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What clinical assessments are used in the platform?

Clinical assessment instruments — including the PHQ-8, GAD-7, and others — are clinician-facing tools used to establish baseline measures and track member outcomes over time. They are not administered to members as self-service app features. Clinicians access assessment data, trend analysis, and outcome tracking through the Coach Portal. Members experience the coaching relationship and peer community — not clinical instrument administration. This distinction is intentional: clinical assessment is a clinician function, not a member-facing feature.

How is member data protected and secured?

Vasl Health implements full HIPAA technical safeguards across all platform components. VLAP processes member language in-memory and does not store verbatim content after signal profile generation. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. VLAP signal context is accessible only to the licensed clinician assigned to that member — not to coaches, school staff, org administrators, or Vasl team members outside the clinical supervisory function. Annual SOC 2 Type II audit. BAA required for all organizational deployments. Individual member records are never shared with school administrators or org staff under any circumstances.

HIPAA · SOC 2 Type II · FERPA
What implementation support is included?

All Vasl partner deployments include a dedicated implementation lead through the end of year one — covering IT integration, compliance documentation, counselor and clinical staff orientation, student community alignment sessions (for school deployments), peer group setup, and the first Medicaid billing cycle. Pro plan deployments include a named Customer Success Manager for ongoing support. Enterprise deployments include a dedicated implementation and success team. No partner goes live without having completed orientation, compliance review, and clinical staff briefing.

How does the crisis response protocol work?

When VLAP detects signals that meet crisis-level thresholds (CRS-category signals in the taxonomy), those signals are surfaced to Vasl's licensed clinical supervisor team for human review — with a 90-minute response SLA. A licensed clinician reviews the signal context and determines the appropriate response. No automated action is taken by the platform. For members in acute crisis, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is integrated and accessible directly through the Member App. Human clinical staff initiate all crisis responses — the platform identifies and surfaces, humans decide and act.

Human-in-the-loop · 988 Integration

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