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Thrive New England

Prevent sexual exploitation and support survivors through education and personalized services.

Sanford, ME   |  thrivenewengland.org

Mission

"Prevent sexual exploitation and support survivors through education and personalized services." Thrive New Englands mission is to educate and empower New England teens and to support and strengthen New England survivors of human trafficking. Thrive New England does this through its core programs of prevention education, restorative wraparound care, and survivor leadership. Guiding teens and survivors through their healing journey, from surviving to thriving.

Ruling year info

2020

Executive Director

Nichole DaRosa

Main address

96 Harry Howes Rd

Sanford, ME 04073 USA

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EIN

84-2777253

NTEE code info

Protection Against and Prevention of Neglect, Abuse, Exploitation (I70)

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Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Restorative Care Program

The primary goal of the Restorative Care Program is to offer long-term, victim-led, strengths-based, holistic care for child victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Thrive Restorative Care Program is relevant and effective because it is entirely designed and led by survivors of sexual exploitation. Thrive programming is informed by clinical specialists and professionals who helped design a comprehensive and safe system for facilitating healing but only survivors can truly understand and speak into the realities and unique challenges of their victimization. For this reason, survivor leaders have directed every aspect of the program design. Trained, trauma-informed survivor leaders also provide mentor services and lead support groups for all RCP participants. Survivor leaders work in conjunction with other trained, trauma-informed Thrive staff to offer support to the caregivers/families of the child victims in the Restorative Care Program.

Population(s) Served

Thrive's Prevention Program is awareness training designed by teens, advocates, educators, and survivors of exploitation and human trafficking to educate teens about dangerous relationships and empower them to make healthy choices. The prevention program aims not only to educate youth about human trafficking, but to provide them with tools and skills to build healthy relationships as a barrier to unhealthy and possibly exploitive relationships developing in their lives. The prevention program includes making safety plans, learning about online safety, identifying and acknowledging vulnerabilities, identifying predators and red flags, and empowering the youth to look out for themselves, family and friends.

Population(s) Served

The primary goal of the Survivor Leadership Program (SLP) is to offer long-term, victim-led, strengths-based, holistic care for victims of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE).
This program is a collaborative network of trauma-informed caregivers working together to meet the survivors unique needs. Upon referral, Thrive will match a victim with a trained survivor mentor, identify the survivors strengths and goals, develop a network of supporters specifically designed to support the survivors goals, and provide trauma-informed training to all network partners/supporters.
Thrive SLP is relevant and effective because it is entirely designed and led by survivors of sexual exploitation. Thrive programming is informed by clinical specialists and professionals who helped design a comprehensive and safe system for facilitating healing but only survivors can truly understand and speak into the realities and unique challenges of their victimization.

Population(s) Served

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Hours of mentoring

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Totals By Year
Related Program

Survivor Leadership Program

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of clients who report general satisfaction with their services

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Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Over 90% of clients served at pleased and satisfied with our services.

Goals & Strategy

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How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

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  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback

Financials

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The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Thrive New England

Board of directors
as of 02/01/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Nichole DaRosa

Patty Morrow

Jen Dix

Lynnda Parker

Jennifer Holt

Stacy Gebauer

Moriah Larocque

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 1/12/2024
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

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Gender identity

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Disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 01/12/2024

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Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.