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 fully grassroots organization, providing a variety of non-carceral support, by and for 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.
As a team, we are committed to providing the highest quality non-carceral support we can possibly provide our communities, understanding the expansive harm and degradation our people have faced through carceral approaches and systemic oppression. We understand that non-carceral support is far from easy and we make a commitment to unlearning biased carceral frameworks we have learned through our lifetimes. We are dedicated to relearning, to ongoing education, mentorship, and team accountability, and regularly interrogating our practices so that we can do better.
Who are you?
You are passionate about eroding systems of oppression and doing better by reaching your highest potential as an invested community member. You are dedicated to the representation and elevation of multiply marginalized communities, and all whom you will uplift through your time with THRIVE. You are empathetic, generous, present, patient, affirming, and dedicated to excellence. You recognize the value of shared community spaces and are committed to doing better. 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.