Students meeting in a Thrive 2.0 online group

Partner case study · Live Like Sam Foundation

Thrive 2.0 left Utah teens with less anxiety and depression.

Depression fell by 19.5%. Anxiety fell by 21.9%.

Partner
Live Like Sam
Participants
121 students, grades 6–12
177 signed up · 160 attended
Period
2025–2026
Format
Small online groups
The challenge

Reach teens before crisis.

In Utah's 2025 SHARP survey of 79,794 students in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12, 63.7% reported moderate to high depressive symptoms and 53.9% had moderate to high treatment needs.

The approach

Build on Thrive. Go deeper.

Building on Thrive, which has served thousands of students, facilitator-led groups teach coping with stress, managing emotions, strengths and values, and healthy relationships.

  1. 01 Learn

    A topic in the app at the start of the week.

  2. 02 Practice

    Skills through the week, with in-app reminders.

  3. 03 Reflect

    On what worked, individually.

  4. 04 Connect

    A weekly live group to apply skills.

WeBeWell well-being lessons in the mobile app

App-delivered curriculum

On iOS, Android and the web, and easy to deploy through learning management systems like Canvas.

A WeBeWell peer support group meeting on Zoom

Psychoeducation support groups

Small online groups led by trained facilitators, once a week. It isn't therapy.

The results

Less distress. More resilience.

Percent change in mean scores from baseline to endline across 121 Thrive 2.0 students in grades 6–12. Every change was statistically significant.

19.5%

Depression

CESD-10
21.9%

Anxiety

GAD-7
7.2%

Resilience

CD-RISC2
4.1%

Quality of life

YQOL
82.5%completed the program
1 in 3looked forward to sessions
1 in 4said relationships mattered most
Thrive 2.0 · 121 students with matched baseline and endline surveys, June 2025–April 2026 · paired-samples t-tests, all p ≤ .006. Completion among the 160 students who attended at least one session; themes from 106 open-ended responses. Source: Thrive 2.0 Program Impact Report, WeBeWell for Live Like Sam, August 2026. SHARP: Utah DHHS, 2025.
In their own words
“Thrive was able to let me take a hour to catch my breath every week, with all the crazy things in life that’s rare.”
Thrive 2.0 Student ParticipantGrades 6–12

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