UPRISERS Resources

Mental Health

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National Alliance on Mental Illness

NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. Today, they are an alliance of more than 600 local affiliates who work in your community to raise awareness and provide support and education that was not previously available to those in need.

Inclusive Therapists 

All people with all abilities in all bodies deserve equal access to identity affirming, culturally responsive care. Inclusive Therapists aim to make this process simpler and safer by centering the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Honoring the full neurodiversity spectrum and advocate for mental health care accessibility for people with disabilities/ disabled people. 

Made Of Millions 

Made of Millions Foundation is a global advocacy nonprofit on a mission to change how the world perceives mental health. The foundation’s resources and experiences reach over three million people each year.

Join The Cosmos

Join The Cosmos create spaces for Asian women to care for themselves, their community and their world

Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective 

BEAM is a collective of advocates, yoga teachers, artists, therapists, lawyers, religious leaders, teachers, psychologists and activists committed to the emotional/mental health and healing of Black communities.

The Changing Tides

Changing Tides is a program of Little Tokyo Service Center located in Los Angeles, California. They seek to inspire greater mental health discussion within the Japanese American and broader Asian American community while tackling the associated stigma. 

SAMHIN

South Asian Mental Health Initiative and Network, SAMHIN, was formed in 2014 to address a broad range of mental health needs of the growing South Asian community in the United States, beginning with New Jersey. SAMHIN is a team of dedicated, multifaceted, determined, and passionate individuals from all walks of life with a strong desire to help uncover and fight mental illness in the South Asian community.

Therapy For Latinx

Therapy for Laxtinx provides resources for the Latinx community to heal, thrive, and become advocates for their own mental health.

Asian Mental Health Collective 

It is the mission of AMHC to normalize and de-stigmatize mental health within the Asian community. AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.

WE R NATIVE

A comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them. WE R NATIVE strives to promote holistic health and positive growth in our local communities and nation at large.

Ayana Therapy

Ayana Therapy strives to address the strong lack of engagement between minorities and the mental care industry which arises as a result of cost, stigma, and lack of cultural competency. They achieve this by matching users with licensed professionals that share their unique traits, values and sensibilities. 

National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network 

The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization that actively works to transform mental health for queer and trans people of color in North America. Together we build the capacity of QTPoC (queer and trans people of color) mental health practitioners, increase access to healing justice resources, provide technical assistance to social justice movement organizations to integrate healing justice into their work. Our overall goal is to increase access to healing justice resources for QTPoC.

The Steve Fund 

The Steve Fund is the nation’s leading organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color. The Steve Fund works with colleges and universities, non-profits, researchers, mental health experts, families, and young people to promote programs and strategies that build understanding and assistance for the mental and emotional health of the nation’s young people of color. The Fund holds an annual conference series, Young, Gifted & @Risk, and offers a Knowledge Center with curated expert information. With multicultural mental health experts it delivers on-campus and on-site programs and services for colleges and non-profits, and through tech partnerships it provides direct services to young people of color.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

fashionrevolution.org

Find presentations, talks, and workshops with emerging designers, established trailblazers and major players, all to celebrate the people and processes behind the process of making our clothes.

theor.org

A 501(C)(3) public charity in the USA and a registered charity in Ghana that has been operating in both countries since 2009. They work at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development.

ellenmacarthurfoundation.org

To solve big problems like climate change, waste, and pollution, we need a big idea.

deadwhitemansclothes.org

A multimedia research project exploring the secondhand clothing trade in context of Accra, Ghana.

grist.org

A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Their goal is to use the power of storytelling to illuminate the way toward a better world, inspire millions of people to walk that path with us, and show that the time for action is now.

nrdc.org

NRDC combine the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild.

EPA.GOV

EPA.GOV is the United States Environmental Protection Agency

Sierra Club

Sierra Club is a grassroots environmental organization in the United States. They amplify the power of our 3.8 million members and supporters to defend everyone’s right to a healthy world. 

 

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