PRIDE FRISCO
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Mission Statement
Established in 2021, Pride Frisco is the first and only nonprofit LGBTQ-resource center in Frisco, Texas. We provide year-round support through social and educational programming, professional resources, scholarships, and strategic collaborations. Guided by a committed to sustainability and an intersectional approach, our strategic vision is to establish a Pride Center: a brick-and-mortar hub addressing the unmet need for a safe space offering year-round, life-affirming resources for the LGBTQIA+ community of Frisco and North Texas.
About This Cause
As an all-volunteer and volunteer-led nonprofit resource center, we provide the following services to LGBTQIA+ individuals in the Frisco and North Texas area: 1) Emergent aid to the most vulnerable in our LGBTQIA+ community that suffer sudden homelessness due to coming out or transitioning, food insecurity, access to temporary housing, hygiene products, transportation, etc., especially trans, nonbinary, gender diverse youth. We partner with local agencies and nonprofits to ensure our vulnerable population's needs are met during the most critical moments of their lives. 2) Expert panels, webinars, workshops in the areas of law, healthcare, career, mentorship, etc. Our vetted experts are leaders in their professional domain and hold significant leadership position(s) in reputable organizations that provide competent, accurate, comprehensive, actionable, and timely information to our community. 3) Social events that create safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals and families to support each other. As we work diligently towards a physical home for Pride Frisco, we continue to partner with local businesses and organizations to host safe, inclusive, and affirming pop-up events for our community. 4) Age-targeted and focus groups programming including youth, young adults, and parents of LGBTQIA+ youth. 5) Scholarships to further post-secondary education of high school graduates in university, community college, or vocational settings. 6) Community-building activities with local organizations that have the ultimate aim of integrating the LGBTQIA+ community with the wider community in a safe and visible manner. For example, we adopted an LGBTQIA+ family during the winter holidays and collected needed/requested items to give to them through Frisco Family Services, a local nonprofit that helps address urgent needs of individuals to improve their quality of life and achieve self-sufficiency. 7) We host an annual pride festival to celebrate, affirm, and bring our LGBTQIA+ and allied communities and resource organizations together in a safe, supportive, and festive event. Average annual attendance of thousands, including LGBTQIA+ resource organizations across the state, local artisan merchants, a majority are LGBTQIA+-owned and identify as transgender and gender diverse and/or neurodiverse, and supportive corporate and nonprofit partners that share our mission and values. Notably, projects completed in 2024 include: 1) Ground-breaking participation in the Yale School of Public Health LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative, which boasts the first evidence-based training program in LGBTQ-affirming cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Pride Frisco recruited over 50 local and virtual mental health providers to participate in the program. 2) Launched mental health referral partnerships with Joon (which provides teletherapy for people ages 13-26, with financial subsidies for ages 13-21), and with Room for Change, a Dallas-based affirming mental health clinic. 3) Celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) with a screening of the documentary film, "Disclosure," community partner presentations, and a TDOV panel discussion. 4) Hosted the first free legal clinic for Name and Gender Marker Change in Frisco that helped over 30 people with their identity documents. 5) Designed and hosted the first LGBTQ Mental Health Forum in Frisco that was endorsed and sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of North Texas. The forum featured 7 presenters who are experts and emerging leaders in LGBTQ-affirming mental health care. It is the first of its kind uniting mental health providers with the general public with a focus upon LGBTQ-affirming care in an intersectional setting.