Health Equity Initiatives

We condemn the systemic racism and continued oppression of the Black community. We are an agency that must show up every day to help others and ethically we must work together to dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism embedded in this country.

We understand that this has been a time of tragedy, hurt, anger, frustration and great stress for our staff, our communities, and our clients. We understand that racism, police brutality, and violence deeply impacts the mental health and well-being of those we serve.

Thrive will not tolerate racism in any form within its agency, in our leadership or toward the clients we serve. We stand in solidarity with our Black colleagues, clients, and the entire Black community to fight for equal rights and justice.

Thrive understands that we must continuously commit to:

-Identifying and preventing implicit bias, discrimination, and racism

-Continuing to support skill and talent development within our agency to ensure a diverse leadership team, with representation from a wide range of cultural identities.

-Providing mandatory training to all staff around issues of cultural competency, racism, and microaggressions.

-Increasing transparency around what upper and middle management are doing to educate ourselves and increase cultural competency on an agency level.

-Empowering our clients to provide constructive feedback to our agency

Your voices are important and although we cannot ever fully understand how you feel, we will continue to listen and will stand with you.

Black Lives Matter.

For those that do not identify as a Black American: You may be asking yourself how this relates to you. We are not taking away from the fact that people of all races and creeds face hardship, stress, and challenges. We continue to be here for you. We encourage everyone to open themselves up to learning about racism in our world and how it impacts us all.

Health Equity and Anti-racism Initiatives

Thrive Behavioral Health is committed to consistent improvement and development of recognition of issues of health equity and the impact of social determinants of health. Since February 2024, some of the trainings/initiatives our staff have participated in have included:

February 2025: Daily Black History Month Discussion
February 2025: Considerations for Mental Health Treatment During Ramadan
February 2025: Family Game Night
February 2025: Measurement Based Care Training (Dr. Conners)
February 2025: B’More Healthy Event
April 2025: Social Determinants of Health
May 2025: Children’s Mental Health Fair
May 2025: Motherhood Panel
June 2025: Baltimore Pride Resource Table
June 2025: Men’s Panel
July 2025: School Supply Drive
July 2025: Stop the Bleed & Narcan Training
July 2025: Power and Privilege in Mental Health (Dr. Liz Ressler, LCSW-C)
August 2025: Back-to-School Resource Fairs
October 2025: Annapolis Pride
October 2025: Holiday Toy Drive
October 2025: Free Haircuts
November 2025: Thanksgiving Food Drive
December 2025: Holiday Toy Shop (Giveaway)