Community Resources
- AAKOMA Project: AAKOMA builds the consciousness of youth of color and their caregivers on the recognition and importance of mental health, empowers youth and their families to seek help and manage mental health, and influences systems and services to receive and address the needs of youth of color and their families.
- Association of Black Psychologists: The Association of Black Psychologists sees its mission and destiny as the liberation of the African Mind, empowerment of the African Character, and enlivenment and illumination of the African Spirit.
- 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 Female Therapists: BFT gives mental health therapists a chance to show their #blackgirlmagic and makes it easier to connect with individuals nationwide.
- Black Mental Health Alliance: Develops, promotes and sponsors trusted culturally-relevant educational forums, trainings and referral services that support the health and well-being of Black people and their communities.
- Black Men Heal: Black Men Heal's mission is to provide access to mental health treatment, psycho-education, and community resources to men of color.
- Black Mental Wellness: Provides access to evidence-based information and resources about mental health and behavioral health topics from a Black perspective, to highlight and increase the diversity of mental health professionals, and to decrease the mental health stigma in the Black community.
- Boris Henson Foundation: BLHF provides access to localized and black-culturally competent therapy resources sourced through a network of clinicians, service providers, counselors, and thought leaders.
- The Loveland Foundation: Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Through fellowships, residency programs, listening tours, and more, ultimately they hope to contribute to both the empowerment and the liberation of the communities they serve.
- Melanin and Mental Health: Melanin & Mental Health wants to change the face of therapy on BOTH sides of the couch! That means getting more Black/Latinx clinicians in the therapist chair while also encouraging our communities to seek mental health support.
- Ourselves Black: A biannual, mental health resource magazine for the Black Community, beautifully written and designed to focus on our exploration of our mental selves through a select number of engaging resources, interviews, stories and photography,
- Sista Afya: Sista Afya Community Mental Wellness' vision is for Black women across the African Diaspora to be free from psychological and physical illness through supporting one another and engaging in accessible mental wellness care that centers the well-being of the whole person.
- Therapy for Black Girls: An online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls.
Need Immediate Help In A Crisis?
The following crisis hotlines are available 24x7.
- Disaster Distress Hotline: Call or text 1-800-985-5990. For an ASL Interpreter, connect with ASL Now or call 1-800-985-5990 from your videophone.
- National Alliance on Mental Illness Crisis Line: Text HOME to 741741
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Call 988 or 1-800-273-8255 or use the Lifeline Chat.