100% Employs and Empowers
The Worthy Co. is a non-profit social enterprise, which means 100% of every purchase is invested back into our mission to employ and empower survivors of trafficking.
Seeing The Need For Employment
The Worthy Co. is a social enterprise of The Net, a non-profit based in Fort Worth, TX that has served over 2,000 survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation since 2012.
For years, we walked alongside survivors at The Net as they rebuilt their lives. From making restitution with the courts to going back to school to getting their own apartments and buying cars, they worked so hard but continued to run into the same barrier...
Finding jobs that would allow them to fully support themselves and their families.
The combination of a criminal record and recovering from the trauma they've experienced made this barrier seem insurmountable.
That's why in 2018, our co-founders Melissa Ice and Sarah Bowden founded The Worthy Co. to meet this need and provide dignified employment to survivors so they could continue rebuilding and flourishing in their new lives.
Everyone Is Worthy Of The ChanceTo Rebuild Their Lives
In the state of Texas, four prostitution misdemeanors results in a felony permanently on your record. Because trafficking and prostitution are so interwoven, the women we employ have long criminal records in addition to recovering from trauma, struggling with addiction, and more.
At The Worthy Co., we look past all of this and ask "What are your dreams?" "What do you want to accomplish?"
We believe that no past is too challenging to overcome and that everyone is worthy of the chance to rebuild their lives!
How It Works
Our goal is to offer holistic job training and enrichment program where women can simultaneously earn an income, build work history, experience healing, and be empowered.
Dignified Employment
Sobriety, stable living conditions, and healthy relationships are all jeopardized without economic stability.
Through our job training program, women survivors are working towards this stability for themselves and their children. Here, women have the opportunity to earn a living wage, participate in diverse job training, and gain work history, all while earning a dignified wage.
Our survivors handcraft all of our candles and jewelry and 100% of your purchase goes back into our mission to employ and empower them as they rebuild their lives!
Enrichment Program
Our Enrichment Program provides opportunities for women to participate in life skills classes, case management, and goal setting!
Each work day is dedicated to different areas of development including typing class, reading and discussing survivor-led material, trauma-informed yoga, nutrition class, and more. All of this helping to create a healthy and holistic work environment.
