Flourish Health Raises $26M For In-Home Youth Mental Healthcare

Flourish Health, a youth mental health provider that offers in-home visits, raised $26 million in a Series A funding round.

B Capital, F-Prime and Cherryrock Capital led the round, which brings the company’s total funding to $46 million.

The company serves young people with serious, complex needs, offering care including home visits from workers called guides. These visits provide more context that allows Flourish’s care teams to personalize a patient’s care, Flourish’s CEO, Dr. Natalia Birgisson, told Home Health Care News.

In home care model

“In-person connection feels so much more real and human,” Birgisson told HHCN in an email. “Sometimes families have felt turned away or lost to various systems, and it can really help to have an in-person visit and to really feel that human connection with their care team. It can go a long way to building trust with caregivers, so that they feel comfortable.”

Durham, North Carolina-based Flourish operates an in-home, psychiatrist-led care model, serving patients with conditions including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and trauma-related conditions. Flourish’s cash infusion will support national expansion in partnership with large health plans, according to the company.

Flourish delivers care through a “Care Pod” of four professionals: a child and adolescent psychiatrist, licensed therapist, patient guide and family guide. An AI-enabled platform resolves most of the administrative burden of delivering care, according to Flourish, enabling the company to serve families that may not otherwise receive effective care.

Care team support

The care team provides support in between appointments, including therapy skills reinforcement, life coaching, social skills support, medication troubleshooting, parent coaching, school advocacy and primary care coordination.

Some services provided by patient and family guides can be offered in patients’ homes. Family guides’ services include reinforcing parent management training.

“This can look like helping them build a behavior chart, practicing how to set boundaries calmly and confidently, and practicing giving positive feedback,” Birgisson said. “In addition, guides can sit down next to overwhelmed caregivers and help them fill out the paperwork to do Medicaid re-enrollment, practice how to advocate for their child at school (and go to the school with them if helpful), coordinate with pediatricians and other medical specialists.”

In-home visits are available to all of Flourish’s patients. The frequency of these in-person visits is determined by clinical needs and reviewed by the full care team weekly, Birgisson said.

The company touts 92% month-over-month retention during 12-month programs, which it says cost less than one month of inpatient treatment.

Morgan Gonzales is an award-winning reporter and associate editor of Home Health Care News. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina and her master's from the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in Behavioral Health Business, KFF Health News, Dallas Morning News and U.S. News and World Report. When not reporting, Morgan is usually on a trail, doing yoga, or cuddling with her cats, Ellen and Ocho.