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  • THRIVE Volunteer Application

    Together we THRIVE

  • Welcome to the first step in your journey to THRIVE! We are so grateful that you would consider volunteering with our team.

    You can expect to take 45-60 minutes to fill out this application. Before we begin, we understand that we will be asking you a lot of personal questions and we want to share a little with you about who we are.

    Who are we?
    THRIVE Lifeline is a non-carceral text-based crisis line run by and for people within multiply marginalized communities. We have watched too many in our communities fall prey to systemic marginalization only to face dismissive, unsupportive, and sometimes dangerous interactions through traditional mental health avenues, and we are dedicated to changing the landscape of mental health support.

    Our volunteers are primarily LGBTQ2S+, People of Color, and people living with disabilities; many of us are in the greater STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) fields. 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.

    Our volunteers are spread throughout the world, from various countries and across multiple time zones. We represent a number of fields ranging from psychology, social sciences, physical, chemical, and biological sciences, pre-med, and more.

    We are committed to representation and elevation of our volunteers. From the moment you being working with us, we want to support your personal and professional goals, giving back to you, just as we know that you are giving your time and passion to us and to the communities that we serve.

    Who are you?

    You are passionate about improving support of underrepresented people. You are dedicated to greater representation in your fields and in positions of leadership. You are empathetic, patient, generous, present, and affirming. When you aren't sure, you are willing to learn. You recognize the value of shared community spaces and are committed to uplifting people in vulnerable times. You are the heart of THRIVE. 

    If at any time you have questions, please reach out to us: info@thrivelifeline.org. We will respond to your inquiry shortly.

  • Your Information

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  • Demographics

    Representation is fundamental to our work with people who have marginalized identities. Not only do we want to elevate people with underrepresented identities within THRIVE, as well as within the greater STEMM community, we also wish to guarantee representation of shared identities and experiences with our texters. Your responses below will remain completely anonymous and continue to help us advocate for greater representation in STEMM.


  • Volunteer Roles and Experience

    This section will allow you to reflect on your motivations for volunteering with THRIVE as a crisis support resource and allow us to get to know you better as we review your position.

  • THRIVE offers a variety of volunteer positions, some of which receive extensive training and mentorship and require longer term commitments from volunteers while others receive basic training and complete shorter term projects. All THRIVE volunteers work remotely, from almost anywhere globally.

    • Our Crisis Response volunteers gain access to high quality, personalized mentorship and training that includes the 50 hour Crisis Response for Marginalized Communities certificate of completion, a certificate of completion for 150 hour Crisis Response Shifts on THRIVE Lifeline, and the Mental Health First Aid for Adults certification. To offset the costs of our training and mentorship (valued at $4000 per person), we require Crisis Response volunteers to commit to a minimum of 150 hours of crisis response shifts on THRIVE Lifeline after their training is completed.
    • Social Media team members, and Outreach Specialists have a one-year commitment to THRIVE.
    • Peer Support Group Facilitators have a 6-month commitment to THRIVE.
    • Project-based volunteers commit to completing the projects that they sign up for.

  • Volunteer Commitments

  • THRIVE requires two references. You can use anyone that you are comfortable with, such as friends, family, professors, coworkers, etc. We will only send them a short form to collect information. We have provided three spaces below, if you want to share a third for potentially faster response times. 

  • References

  • THRIVE requires two references. You can use anyone that you are comfortable with, such as friends, family, professors, coworkers, etc. We will only send them a short form to collect information. We have provided three spaces below, if you want to share a third for potentially faster response times.

  • This concludes our volunteer application. We will reach out to you within 48 hours of submission. If you have questions, please email info@thrivelifeline.org. 

    Thank you so much for your interest! 

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