About THRIVE
Thriving Harnesses Respect, Inclusion, and Vested Empathy: a 501(c)(3) grassroots organization dedicated to changing the landscape of mental health support for people with intersecting marginalized identities. We provide crisis support through THRIVE Lifeline. We also partner with Stronger U to provide peer support through community discord servers and topic-based groups, scholarships to community education experiences, and professional non-carceral development opportunities for selected Community Care Practitioner and Undergraduate Internship applicants.
We are led by volunteer crisis managers who are fed up with watching our communities fall prey to systemic marginalization only to face dismissive, unsupportive, and sometimes dangerous interactions through carceral mental health avenues. Since opening in June 2020, we have served community members in 50 countries worldwide.
We take a different approach. When you connect with THRIVE, you can trust that you will be dimensionalized. YOU, not your crisis, are at the center of our conversation. As a 988 alternative, we do not engage in non-consensual active rescue and want to respect your own decisions and autonomy. For our full policies, click here.
Who Are We?
THRIVE is Trans-led and operated. We are a globally distributed and fully grassroots group of volunteers and Community Care Practitioners who devote our skills and our lived experience to providing non-carceral support to our communities.
Our backgrounds include surviving suicide and trauma, familial rejection due to our identities, food and housing insecurity, poverty, lack of access to education, immigration, and more. We navigate disabilities, dissociation, PTSD, and other mental health needs and neurodivergencies. We personally live and understand chronic marginalizing experiences.
What makes us different?
We are dedicated to community care, team support, education, and intentional practice. None of us are employed by THRIVE; we all donate time. Our administrators volunteer their time to operational leadership, professional development, and caring for our team. Our practitioners, also people with lived experience, commit to ongoing education, sharing their skills and knowledge, and supporting their team and community members.
Our team are rigorously trained using Stronger U’s donated certificate programs, taught by and for people with intersecting marginalized identities. We hope that when you connect with THRIVE, you will talk to someone who gets it.
Vision
Accessibility: THRIVE Lifeline remains 100% free to users. We believe that access to life-affirming and life-saving resources is crucial.
Mission
THRIVE Lifeline’s mission is to end stigma for people with marginalized identities and close gaps in access to crisis intervention, validation, and resources through whole-human support.
We fulfill our mission by:
- Providing multiply marginalized community members with qualified and compassionate non-carceral support
- Normalizing suicidality and depathologizing stigmatized mental health experiences through whole-human practices that anchor people into communities of care
- Combining lived experience with anonymized data to advocate for systemic changes and provide exhaustive training through a non-carceral lens.
Core Values
- Accessibility: THRIVE Lifeline support services are 100% free. We believe that access to life-affirming and life-saving resources is crucial.
- Connection: Often, our community members are ‘the only one’ they know who faces what they face. We provide community anchoring with others of shared identity and experience.
- Inclusion: Representation matters. Being recognized at the core of who you are is the center of inclusion. Whoever you are, wherever you are from, THRIVE welcomes you.
- Integrity: We uphold the highest standards of communications, support, and confidentiality, knowing that the heart of our work involves people at their most vulnerable times.
Please be advised that our text line supports individuals 18+
If at any time you would like to stop a text-based conversation, please text STOP. Conversations are 100% confidential