Eleven NQTTCN partners, one Advisory Board member, and Founding Director pose together at a strategy session. They are outside, with trees in the background and a building to the right. Everyone wears a face mask. Two people wear keffiyehs. One person wears a t-shirt that says, "Protect Black Trans Women."

Community Resources

Here you will find important mental health and community resources! We prioritize resources led by and for QTBIPOC and BIPOC folks, as well as resources aligned with healing justice. However, we understand that given the limited number of mental health supports for our people, we also share some more mainstream mental health resources to ensure as much access as possible.

We encourage you to get to know the organizations listed in order to best understand their history, mission, and approach to this work. We specifically want to name that several of the crisis hotlines on this list are not abolitionist and collaborate with law enforcement which may put QTBIPOC at risk when accessing care. We understand that many in our community may still need to rely upon these resources during a crisis while we collectively build more alternatives rooted in healing justice and abolition. 

National Crisis Response

  • Community-based alternatives to police in your city. “We believe in care, not cops, and will continue to work to support to Black and POC-led organizations working to reimagine public safety.”

  • Abolitionist organization that provides trans peer support by and for trans people. “We envision a world where trans people have the connection, economic security, and care everyone needs and deserves – free of prisons and police.”

  • 24/7 Text or Call Hotline that provides peer support, counseling, and a space to report abuse, violence and mistreatment by police and vigilantes with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens.

  • DeQH is the first and only national Desi lgbtQ+ Helpline in the United States. “We offer free, confidential, culturally sensitive peer support, information and resources for LGBTQ+ South Asian individuals, families and friends around the globe.”

  • The world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ elders.

  • Information, resources & referrals for trans+ survivors of domestic, sexual, or hate violence or stalking. Not an immediate assistance hotline – press 9 to leave a confidential message.

  • Local, national and international resources. Services are free and confidential.

    LGBT National Hotline: (888) 843-4564

    LGBT National Youth Talkline: (800) 246-7743

    GBT National Senior Hotline: (888) 234-7243

    • Hotline for senior callers, ages 50+, confidential peer-support and resources

Peer Support Spaces

  • A support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. Fireweed advances social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. Link to Support Groups.

  • Provides access to community healing through offerings including meditations for queer & trans people of color and publish original art and writing on restforresistance.com.

  • 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. Virtual Peer support spaces that center Black mental health & healing.

  • A national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence. Offering: Peer Support Services, Community education & speaking, LETS Provider Collective, and High School & College Chapters, and more!

Therapist Directories