Our Mission
Our Purpose
Together We Thrive is a 501c3 non-profit serving vulnerable youth across North Texas. We commit to walking alongside our youth to help them achieve their goals, and reach a place of sustainability.
1 in 3 youth will navigate life on their own.
Our Mission
Together We Thrive aims to connect vulnerable, homeless, foster, and sex trafficked youth across North Texas with their community. We commit to walk beside these youth while helping them rewrite their future. We seek to replace labels of loneliness and hopelessness that once defined them with opportunities and the ability to get to a place of sustainability. Transforming lives that transform communities!
We transform lives that transform communities.
Our Vision
Our vision is to positively influence youth across North Texas through one-on-one relationships with consistent, positive, adults. It is through these relationships that we will transform lives that transform communities.
Our Core Values
We are committed to being a positive influence for vulnerable youth and our community, and here is how we do it:
- Relentlessness: We never give up on any youth in need.
- Consistency: We establish consistent relationships with vulnerable youth through full-time, paid employees and are not dependent on volunteers.
- Easy Access: There are minimal barriers for youth to engage with us. We serve youth every week, in schools and youth programs, with paid staff members.
- Commitment: If we fail a student, we fail as an organization.
- Community: We invest in our community and our future by investing in our youth today.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At Together We Thrive, diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to our values and mission. Since our inception, we’ve maintained a driving focus on fostering an environment that reflects a broad range of backgrounds and experiences to provide better outcomes for the youth and communities we serve.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace
Together We Thrive is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment that promotes fairness, teaches acceptance, and values the unique contribution every employee, volunteer, and director brings to the workplace. We celebrate their differences with respect to characteristics that include, but are not limited to, race, color, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual preference or identity, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship status, military or veteran status, economic background, family status, and political beliefs.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Community
Together We Thrive is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community where every individual, including every at-risk, homeless, foster, and sex-trafficked youth across North Texas, is valued, respected, and can achieve their full potential. We affirm that every person deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their race, color, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual preference or identity, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship status, military or veteran status, economic background, family status, or political beliefs.
Our staff, leadership team, and volunteers put our mission into action everyday to help transform lives that transform communities.
Our Story
Together We Thrive was founded by Tracey
Hardwick following a mission trip to Nigeria
that would not only change her family
through the adoption of her fourth child, but
also change her life’s mission. With a heart
for the marginalized, Tracey sought a way to
have an impact on at risk youth in her home
of North Texas.
Challenges, Successes, and Growth
Since 2018, Together We Thrive has
adapted to the various needs of at risk
youth. We have garnered support from the
community, which has allowed us to hire
more Life Coaches to serve schools,
transitional homes, and youth centers
across North Texas. In 2020, the pandemic
changed how and when we were able to
meet with youth, but we continued to work
with the community to meet the needs of
our youth however possible. We are back
in schools and see firsthand that now, more
than ever, our youth need a consistent
influence in their lives.
We committed to and began
walking beside youth in need
of a consistent adult in their
life.
In 2018, Tracey and our
advisory board worked to form
Together We Thrive as an
independent 501c3.
We began our work by placing
Life Coaches in schools across
North Texas. In 2020, Covid
caused us to retool our efforts,
while still reaching at risk youth and our community.
Each year, we see academic and personal improvements in our youth, and there are more
opportunities for additional Life Coaches in new locations.
