Our Mission
Third Street Alliance for Women & Children inspires and equips women, children, and families to live, learn, and thrive.
Our Vision
Women, children and families are connected to community and social networks, achieving positive outcomes including health, social and emotional development, and educational and economic advancement.
Our Values
Accountability: We are responsible for our actions to influence the lives of customers, clients, and fellow workers
Community: We contribute to shaping a supportive community within the agency and into the surrounding society
Respect: We behave with dignity toward clients, customers, and co-worker. At the same time, we aim to earn their esteem in return.
Professionalism: We educate ourselves about the best professional practices and aim to enact them in order to serve the nonprofit community, our programs, our clients and co-workers.
Boldness: As a team, we are willing to take risks to further the mission of Third Street Alliance and assure its future.
Stewardship: We protect the assets entrusted to our care, including our historically preserved home, the legacy gifts endowed to us, and our operating funds.
Our History
Serving the greater Lehigh Valley for more than a century, Third Street Alliance for Women & Children is a multi-program human services agency. Housed in the historic Simon Mansion and the adjoining Bixler-Ward House, we provide the community with 21st century STEAM programming in our Learning Center and expanded supportive services in our shelter for women & children. We believe in the power of communities, when people come together we can change lives.
The mansion, built between 1900-1902, sits along the corridor to historic Downtown Easton in an area known as Millionaire’s Row. The central location adds convenience for our program customers and also makes us a frequent stop for walking tours, architecture and history enthusiasts, as well as the general public. Within these walls, we house historically preserved community spaces, a commercial kitchen, shelter accommodations, a gymnasium, a 21st Century STEAM lab, childcare classrooms, and program administrative offices.
Our “Mansion with A Mission” represents a unique re-purposing of a historically preserved home into a contemporary program serving some of our most vulnerable community members.