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.” | More information
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.” | More information
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. | More information
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.” | More information
The world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ elders. | More information
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. | More information
Local, national and international resources. Services are free and confidential | More information
LGBT National Hotline: (888) 843-4564
- Hotline with peer-counseling and local resources
- Online Peer Support Chat for LGBTQ+ peer counseling | More information
LGBT National Youth Talkline: (800) 246-7743
- Hotline for youth (up to age 25) with peer-counseling and local resources
- Trans Teens Online Talk Group, More information
- LGBTQ Teen Chatroom, More information
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 www.restforresistance.com | Facebook Page
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. | More information
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! | More information
Therapist Directories
An online platform and network of Latinx mental health practitioners honoring and affirming the dignity and healing of migrant communities marginalized by criminalization, detention, and deportation. | More information
Directory to connect Queer & Trans People of Color to affirming anti-oppressive mental health professionals. | More information
Directory of LGBTQ therapists in the San Francisco Bay Area | More information
Network of therapists recommended/vetted by Black women across the country | More information
Directory of mental health & cultural wellness professionals who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and QTPoC & LGBTQIA+ & Affirming Providers serving our communities. | More information
Directory of Asian therapists in the United State and Canada | More information
Directory of culturally responsive, social justice-oriented therapists centering the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community | More information
Directory of therapists dedicated to eradicating the negative stigma around therapy and opening doors for people of color to get the support they need to cope with life’s challenges | More information
Directory for Muslim Health Practitioners | More information
National directory to find a Latinx therapist | More information
Directory for affordable in-office and online psychotherapy sessions at a steeply reduced rate | More information
National directory to find a Latinx therapist | More information
National directory of Muslim therapists | More information
National Directory of South Asian Therapists | More information
A collective resource of abolition-centered, non-carceral care providers (therapists, social workers, peer supporters, healers) | More information