The Thrive Story
A Model for Success
Strong Families
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Successful Children
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Our Thriving Community
Thrive is a community-based organization established in 1986. Each year Thrive serves over 7,000 parents, children and community members through our five signature programs.
Thrive provides mentoring, education and support for children and families, so that everyone in our community has the tools they need to be successful. Our proven programs have been developed using evidence-based practices, adapted to meet local community needs, and rigorously evaluated to ensure program efficacy.
Thrive has developed critical community partnerships built on sharing design, implementation, management, evaluation, financial resources, and responsibilities for programs. This approach, which has the success of the child at its center, results in the highest quality services, maximizes scarce resources, and has a powerful impact on outcomes for children.
Our History
- 1986
Thrive is founded
Thrive (formally called Prevent Child Abuse, Inc.) is formally established for the purpose of developing and coordinating services and programs that prevent child abuse and neglect in our community.
- 1989
Jan. 1st, 1989
Child Advancement Project
Thrive designs and implements the award-winning Child Advancement Project — an in-school mentoring program available in all elementary, middle and high schools in Bozeman and Big Sky.
- 1994
Jan. 1st, 1994
Parent Liaison launched
In partnership with our local school district, we began to provide Parent Liaison services in all elementary and middle schools in the district. Parent Liaisons act as a link between the home and school to ensure strong communication and relationship building that promotes the common goal: successful students.
- 1995
Jan. 1st, 1995
Partnership Project launches
Thrive partners with other local agencies to provide intensive in-home prevention services to very high-risk families through the “Partnership to Strengthen Families” project.
- 1997
Jan. 1st, 1997
Parent Place opens it's doors in Bozeman
Thrive opened the Bozeman Parent Place Family Resource Center, a comfortable and non-threatening environment with parenting literature and videos, computer and internet access, parenting classes, support groups and play groups available to all parents in our community.
- 2006
October 2006
Belgrade, MT Parent Place opens
Thrive opens the Belgrade Parent Place Family Resource Center providing the same environment, support groups and classes as the Bozeman center.
