The Grant Period
Once selected by the community, recipients enter a 4-month program. The foundation funds access to independent licensed professionals. What that experience looks like is between you and your provider.
What the Grant Is — and Isn't
What the grant covers
- The cost of your independently chosen provider's services for 4 months
- The ability to work with a professional whose approach fits your needs
- Access — removing the financial barrier between you and professional support
What the grant does not do
- Dictate what services your provider offers or how they practice
- Assign or recommend specific providers, modalities, or protocols
- Employ, supervise, or direct any provider's clinical decisions
- Make any clinical, therapeutic, or medical decisions on your behalf
Independent Licensed Professionals
Every provider who works with a Thrive Grant recipient is an independent licensed professional operating within their own scope of practice. Thrive Grant holds no clinical authority over their work.
Their License. Their Judgment. Their Practice.
Providers are licensed by their respective professional licensing boards. They carry their own liability. They make their own clinical decisions. Thrive Grant does not supervise, direct, or second-guess those decisions.
If you are selected as a recipient, your provider relationship is a professional relationship — between you and them. The foundation's role begins and ends with funding access.
A note on language: Thrive Grant Foundation does not describe its own activities as "treatment," "therapy," or "intervention." These are clinical terms that belong to your provider's practice — not to the foundation. Thrive Grant offers a grant period, a program, a journey. What happens within that journey is yours and your provider's to define.
How the Grant Period Unfolds
A general arc of the 4-month program experience.
Getting Started
You connect with your independently chosen provider and begin the process of establishing the relationship. Your baseline TRA-70 data is already on record. No Thrive Grant staff are involved in this process.
The Grant Period
Your provider works with you according to their professional judgment and your individual needs. The grant covers the cost of your provider's services for this period. What those sessions look like is between you and your provider.
Outcome Measurement
Independent third-party evaluators — not Thrive Grant staff, and separate from your provider — administer validated measurement instruments at regular intervals. This happens in parallel to your experience, not instead of it.
Post-Program Measurement
At the conclusion of the grant period, a final measurement is conducted. This closes the active phase. Your outcomes data is collected, anonymized, and entered into the published record.
Common Questions About Providers
Who chooses my provider?
You do. Thrive Grant does not assign, recommend, or endorse specific providers. Recipients are responsible for selecting an independent licensed professional whose approach and expertise match their needs and preferences.
What can my provider offer?
That is entirely within the professional judgment of your provider. Thrive Grant does not specify, restrict, or endorse any particular modality, protocol, or approach. Your provider is an independent licensed professional whose practice is their own.
Is my provider a Thrive Grant employee?
No. Providers are never Thrive Grant staff. They are independent licensed professionals who contract directly with recipients. Thrive Grant's role is funding access — not directing care.
What does the grant actually cover?
The grant covers the cost of your provider's services during the 4-month program period. It does not include other expenses. The amount is set per cycle and disclosed to recipients prior to selection.
Your Journey Is Measured — Separately
Alongside your grant period, independent third-party evaluators — completely separate from your provider — collect validated outcomes data at monthly intervals. This measurement happens in the background and does not interrupt your work with your provider.
Learn about the measurement processStart with the Assessment
The first step toward a Thrive Grant is the TRA-70 assessment — a tool to understand whether this program is the right fit for where you are right now.