Fulton County School District receives $1.4M Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Project thrive - fulton county schools (fcs) proposes project thrive, a districtwide three-tiered public health framework embedded within Georgia’s multi-tiered system of supports to strengthen student mental health, prevent substance use and suicide, improve early intervention, and increase timely access to behavioral health services for approximately 85,000 students across 101 schools. Strategies include mental health literacy, signs of suicide, lifeskills training, bounce back, cbits, the thrive ambassador program, multidisciplinary care coordination, improved treatment referral and re-entry practices, community behavioral health partnerships, and family education and resource navigation. The project will strengthen districtwide behavioral health infrastructure, prevention and workforce capacity, student leadership, identification and intervention, treatment access and continuity of care, family partnerships, community collaboration, and data-driven accountability. Each year, project thrive will provide universal prevention and mental health promotion to approximately 85,000 students, train more than 2,000 educators and school-based professionals, engage approximately 5,000 caregivers, and provide targeted tier 2 and tier 3 school-based mental and behavioral health services to approximately 1,700 students, or approximately 8,500 students over the five-year project period.