RESOURCES
"IT’S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY"
General
AAKOMA Project
Aakoma Project works to build the consciousness of intersectional youth and young adults of color and their caregivers on the recognition and importance of mental health, empower youth and young adults of color and their families to seek help and manage mental health, and influence systems and services to receive and address the needs of youth and young adults of color and their families.
Calathea Wellness
Calathea Wellness helps first-generation Latine professionals embrace their bicultural identity to elevate their confidence, deepen their connections, and amplify their individual and professional fulfillment.
Future of SEL
Future of SEL helps people develop mindful work habits, make better business decisions, and build positive relationships to retain talent and create well spaces for all so that owners, leaders, and employees are living and leading well.
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Campaign works alongside lawmakers and groups at the state and local levels all over the country to fight for LGBTQ+ equality.
Inclusive Therapists
Inclusive Therapists works to make the process of finding a therapist simpler and safer, centering the needs of BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ intersections (QTBIPOC). Their mission prioritizes the voices and expressions of neurodivergent and disabled communities of color.
Informed Immigrant
Informed Immigrant has become both a digital hub and offline network offering the most up-to-date and accessible information and guidance for the undocumented immigrant community.
Nalgona Positivity Pride
Nalgona Positivity Pride is an unconventional eating disorder awareness organization that shines a light on the often-overlooked societal factors that perpetuate unrealistic and oppressive beauty and health standards. NPP offers a vital space for BIPOC individuals to celebrate and embrace their bodies and identities.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color advances healing justice by transforming mental health for queer and trans BIPOC individuals.
Office of Minority Health Resource Center
The Office of Minority Health Resource Center is a one-stop shop for minority health literature, research, and referrals.
Project LETS
Project LETS builds peer support collectives, leads political education, develops new knowledge and language around mental distress, organizes and advocates for the liberation of our community members globally, and creates innovative, peer-led, alternatives to our current mental health system.
Radical Mental Health First Aid
Radical Mental Health First Aid is mutual aid. RMHFA is harm reduction. RMHFA is non-carceral. RMHFA is imbued with the energy and spirit of Teranga (“we invite you in with open arms. what affects you, what ails you, what reinforces you also affects me and my community. you are not alone. we breathe as one”).
Recovery Dharma Online
Recovery Dharma Online (RDO) is an independent Recovery Dharma community that works together to host safe, inclusive, and reliable Buddhist-inspired recovery meetings
Rooted in Radiance
Rooted in Radiance offers solutions that emphasize well-being, fitness, and mental resilience. We curate creative and culturally tailored programming that empowers people to achieve their goals, enhance their mental health and form lifelong healthy habits.
Communities of African Descent/Black Communities
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM) is a national training, movement building, and grant making institution that is dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black and marginalized communities.
Black Girls Can Heal
Black Girls Can Heal is an online community and coaching program dedicated to helping women break the cycles of unavailable partnerships, unhealthy relationships and feeling not enoughis here to provide via evidence based and real, actionable tools.
Black Men Heal
Black Men Heal provides access to mental health treatment, psycho-education, and community resources to men of color.
Therapy for Black Girls
Therapy for Black Girls is an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls.
Therapy for Black Men
Therapy for Black Men wants to break the stigma that asking for help is a sign of weakness. With a rapidly growing directory of 608 therapists and 50 coaches throughout the 50 states thus far, Therapy for Black Men provides judgment-free, multiculturally-competent care to Black men.
Communities of Arab Descent
Khalil Center
Khalil Center is a psychological and spiritual community wellness center advancing the professional practice of psychology rooted in Islamic principles.
Institute for Muslim Mental Health
Institute for Muslim Mental Health promotes Muslim Americans’ mental health through research, resource development, training and advocacy.
Naseeha
Naseeha is a Mental Health Helpline that answers calls from around the world from Muslim and non- muslims.
Muslim Wellness Foundation
Muslim Wellness Foundation utilizes a holistic and spiritually-grounded psychological approach, we cultivate honest conversations and experiences wherein radical healing, belonging, and growth can flourish.
Communities of Asian or Pacific Islander Descent
Asian Counseling and Referral Services (ACRS)
Asian Counseling and Referral Services (ACRS) promotes social justice and the well-being and empowerment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other underserved communities – including immigrants, refugees, and American-born – by developing, providing and advocating for innovative, effective and efficient community-based multilingual and multicultural services.
Asian Mental Health Collective
Asian Mental Health Collective aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.
Mustard Seed Generation
Mustard Seed Generation exists to eradicate barriers to mental health that increase life dissatisfaction, family dysfunction, and suicide in the Korean American community. We provide culture-specific training to increase the mental health literacy of Korean American churches, families, and youth.
Yellow Chair Collective
Yellow Chair Collective provides culturally relevant therapy for Asian Americans. YCC doesn’t simply view therapy as addressing the problem you’re facing or the symptom you’re experiencing. YCC takes into account who you are as a person first and what is truly important to you.
Communities of Indigenous Descent
One Sky Center
One Sky Center is a National Resource Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Education and Research. It is dedicated to quality health care across Indian Country.
Native Hope
Native Hope exists to address the injustice done to Native Americans. We share Native stories, provide educational resources, and assist Native communities.
WeRNative
WeRNative is a comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them. We strive to promote holistic health and positive growth in our local communities and nation at large.
Communities of Latine or Hispanic Descent
Estoy Aqui
Estoy Aqui offers innovative training programs to providers in the helping professions who want to learn about the socio-cultural aspects of mental health in Latine and Black communities.
Latinx Parenting
Latinx Parenting is a bilingual organization rooted in children’s rights, social and racial justice and antiracism, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families.
Latinx Therapy
Latinx Therapy is a national directory for Latinx Therapists in private practice. Latinx Therapy works to destigmatize mental health in the Latinx community by providing a bilingual podcast, national directory, and culturally-grounded workshops and services.
Therapy for Latinx
Therapy for Latinx was created to make finding a mental health provider as easy as possible. Search our listings to find therapists that honor who you are, provide services with dignity, and can code switch like the best of them.
Communities of Multiracial Descent
Mixed in America
Mixed in America is a community organization looking to have more nuanced conversation about race in America, specifically through the multiracial lens. Our goal is to empower the mixed community
by facilitating supportive spaces for mixed individuals to explore and unpack their identities. Mixed in America offers services for adults, children, affinity groups, schools, and businesses. Our approach is trauma informed, holistic, inclusive and autonomous.