Utilizing technology, Rising Above the Pain, (RATP), fills a critical “pain services gap” and is dedicated to providing outreach and emotional support on a nationwide 24/7 basis to the people of this nation devastated, disadvantaged and disabled by chronic pain. RATP is part of the new business model that provides services to the emerging mobile health landscape that delivers these critical support resources in both the metropolitan and rural areas to those who have become isolated and depressed and who have limited social interactions and/or relationships with the goal of helping participants with self maintenance and reorientation to regain their dignity and improve the quality of their lives.