Welcome To A Movement of Positive Education!
Thrive is a nonprofit educational organisation working to provide preventive, positive and promotive mental health education in low-income schools in Chennai.
Our Beliefs
We are working towards a world where every child and adult can thrive in an ever-changing volatile environment. Our mission is to create learning spaces where children and adults can pursue their well-being through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). Vulnerable children attending low resourced schools are at high risk for staying locked in poverty owing to exposure to multiple psychosocial risks and lack of supportive educational services to face them and overcome them. We do what we do to provide access to mental health care because it is a right, not a privilege.
Our Approach
WHOLE SCHOOL WELL-BEING THROUGH SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Classes on SEL for middle school children
Individual and group counselling for targetted challenges
Teacher well-being programme
Parent engagement
Drafting, implementing and monitoring child-centric school policies
Our Impact
85% of all enrolled students showed observable and marked improvement in critical life skills such as communication, taking initiatives, solving problems, resolving conflicts and engaging with larger social issues and working on their biases
Testimonials
What Schools Say
“SEL came into my classroom last year, when my students were in the 7th grade and frankly, I didn’t know how it would pan out … I knew it was to do with emotions, building emotional vocabulary…. But as the days went by, I saw changes in the children, where they were able to articulate their feelings.. the class kind of transformed from a class of monkeys who used to tease each other and use violence to a class who could actually sit down and talk about their emotions and were willing to open up and empathise with the other person…they could reason out why they reacted the way they did or why others reacted the way they did and they learned to separate the emotion from the person and solve problems..”
– Ms. N.S, Grade VIII Teacher in a low-income school
If I go to another school, I want SEL to come there.
Pranav, Grade VII
We learnt to talk and solve problems and get the solutions from US!
Akshaya, Grade VII
I loved the classes and my favourite topic was that on emotions as I felt it was very useful and can be used to identify and relate to other people. the activity where we shared personal experiences made me realise how one can be free of worries if they share and thus feel happy.
Priya, Grade VI
How You Can Be Involved
Become an AlterNarrative Fellow
Finding a way to combine your passion for education and mental health has never been easier! If you are a psychologist or social worker looking to apply your expertise to making schools uncompromisingly child-centric, reach out to us!
Become a Volunteer
You can get involved today by becoming a Volunteer. Write to us and you will be joining a group of change-makers, a network strong enough to impact positive change in the lives of children and influential adults who surround them.
Support our work
You can make a contribution to keep mental health services available to communities where awareness of mental health is low and stigma attached to accessing the same is high. Your donation will help us take psychology into the school compound, making access to vulnerable children equitable and free. Write to us!
SUPPORTED BY
Thrive Foundation 