The Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports — which issued $111 million in grants to address youth mental health in 2024 — issued seven grants in Calvert County worth a total of $2.9 million:
- Calvert County Behavioral Health received $900,000 to provide crisis stabilization services, therapy, social-emotional learning, vaping education and cessation programming and transportation support.
- Pathways Inc. received $650,000 to provide individual, group, and family mental health therapy; substance abuse screening; individual and parent support groups; psychopharmacology; telehealth services; school-wide mental health education; case management; and crisis response services.
- East-John Youth Center Inc. received $500,000 to provide transportation and access to the in-school and after-school Adolescent Clubhouse program, which offers substance use prevention, mental health awareness education, peer-supported programming and family peer supports.
- Uneo Health — in partnership with NAMI Maryland, Bowie State University and AMG — received $465,000 for a smartphone app that will provide self-care and support resources to at-risk and underserved high school teenagers.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maryland received $175,000 for social-emotional skill building and character development through after-school activities.
- Barstow Acres Children’s Center Inc. received $120,000 to provide therapeutic summer day camps that will teach social skills, diabetes
management and parent education through social skills groups and play therapy. - Community Mediation Center of Calvert County Inc. received $90,000 for preventative mental and behavioral health education and support, mediation, classroom circles, community conferencing, conflict resolution education and peer mediation training.