Title:Thrive Center makes an immediate impact on the community

Since its opening last fall, the Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities, a multidisciplinary academic center launched by Georgetown University and MedStar Health, has focused on child and family mental health, disabilities, health equity, and digital health.

Its programs are designed to rapidly advance equitable systems of care and support that enable children, families, and communities.

“Our goal is to look at the entire spectrum of what helps people thrive across the lifespan, beginning in childhood,” explains Matthew Biel, the center’s director.

As the Marriott Chair of Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health, Biel serves as professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and chief of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, which developed the center in partnership with the Center for Child and Human Development.

Major donors include the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, Shelley and Allan Holt, the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, and the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation.

Read more about the Thrive Center and its focus on cura personalis, or care of the whole person >