Bring behavioral healthcare to students faster — without creating more work for school teams.
Backpack partners with schools and districts to reduce barriers to care and connect students to therapy, psychiatry, and family support services. We recently expanded services supporting 400,000+ students through school partnerships.
successfully
complete their first session
Counselors
carry too much. Waitlists carry the rest.
Your counselors and school psychologists are the front line, and they're stretched. When a student needs ongoing therapy, medication evaluation, or family-level support, the referrals you can make today often don't go anywhere.
For your students, and the families behind them.
Sessions before school, after school, on weekends. No missed class time required. We make care visible to schools and invisible to attendance reports.
Need a clinician onsite? Talk to us. We can blend virtual access with in-school presence for districts that need it.
When a 7th grader's anxiety is tied to what's happening at home, we can see the parent too. That's how lasting change happens.
ADHD evaluations, anxiety, depression, autism support, trauma, substance use, OCD, and psychiatric medication management when needed.
We give counselors, school psychologists, and student services staff a simple referral form and a named point of contact. No more wondering if the referral went through.
Care that meets families where they are — across 250+ languages with clinicians trained on the realities of the communities you serve.
Why districts partner with Backpack
A behavioral health partner your team can actually rely on.
We built the workflow around what counselors and student services teams told us they need most: fast access, no cost barriers, family-level care, and a closed feedback loop.
01
No cost to the district.
We bill insurance directly — Medicaid, Medicaid MCOs, and major commercial plans. No district budget line, no procurement gymnastics, no per-student fee.
02
Real access, fast.
Students start care in under a week, not next quarter. Most are seen within three days of referral.
03
We see the whole family.
The single biggest predictor of a kid's wellbeing is what's happening at home. We treat both — the student and the caregiver, in the same practice, often by the same care team.
04
Closed-loop with your team.
Your counselors get updates (with appropriate consent) so they can support the student in school while we support them clinically.
Partner with Backpack
Let's talk about bringing Backpack to your students.
Whether you're a single school, a district, or a state-level
student services team, we'll walk you through how partnership works — referral pathways, parent communication, counselor enablement, and reporting.
States
VA · MD · GA · MI · IL
Insurance
Medicaid, MCOs, and major commercial plans
States
4+ — students, siblings, and caregivers
