About Us

Helping South Florida Thrive

Thriving Mind South Florida promotes access to effective, accountable and compassionate care for individuals and families in our community with mental illnesses and substance use disorders. We do this to help South Florida live with health, hope and dignity.

Together we can enhance mental health in our community

Our Mission

We work to ensure that families and individuals affected by mental illness and substance use disorders in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties can readily access innovative, effective and compassionate services that lead to health and recovery. We do this because everyone is equally entitled to live with hope and lead meaningful lives.

Our Vision

Everyone in South Florida should have a compassionate understanding of mental illness and direct access to exceptional mental health care.

Quality you can trust

Our commitment to exceptional services

Health Service Integration
We’re working on bridging the gap between behavioral health and primary care services.
Provider Report Cards
We monitor and evaluate our network providers’ compliance and status in several key areas.
Secret Shopper Exercises
We go the extra mile to ensure our network providers are delivering the very best care and service.

What?

We enhance mental health care in South Florida by ensuring direct access to exceptional treatment providers and services.

Why?

Because every person in South Florida affected by mental illness or substance use disorders is entitled to live with hope and lead a meaningful life.

How?

We evaluate and secure expert service providers that help people affected by mental illness or substance abuse in our community. We aim to facilitate efficient access to an envelope of personalized services and programs that bridge gaps in the system, provide a continuum of care and help people thrive at their optimal potential.

What’s Different?

We are passionate about the people we serve. We go beyond the required to ensure that everyone can have access to exceptional mental health services that empower people to thrive.

Local, Nimble, Cost-Effective
With administrative costs below 5%, we offer healthcare solutions to a costly and complex population.

Million

Last fiscal year, Thriving Mind funded over $137 million for mental health, substance use disorders treatment and prevention in our community.

More than 121,000 individuals benefitted from direct services in the same time period.

Results you can count on
Our commitment to exceptional services

Of the adults with severe and persistent mental health or substance use disorders, greater than 88% achieve stable housing, consistent with improvements in symptoms and overall function.

Of the children receiving treatment for severe emotional disturbance in our system of care, greater than 99% improved their level of functioning.

Million

Our network of healthcare providers deliver more than $10 million in uncompensated services to make up for shortfalls.

Together we can improve mental health in South Florida

Please make a contribution to partner with us in ensuring that people affected my mental illness and substance use our community can access services and support they need to thrive at their optimal potential.

Meet the team that makes it all possible.

A network of exceptional providers first starts with a team of exceptional advisory and management personnel.

Meet the Team

Supporters

Thriving Mind South Florida is a managing entity contracted with the Department of Children and Families.

Thriving Mind also receives support from other Federal, State, County and private sources.

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