Chicago Therapy Collective: Chicago Therapy Collective (CTC) promotes citywide action to alleviate LGBTQIA2S health disparities and advance queer liberation through therapy, education, and the arts. [Website] [IG]
Collaborative for Community Wellness: The Collaborative for Community Wellness is a collaborative that brings together mental health professionals, community-based organizations, and community residents to address the lack of mental health access and to redefine mental health to match the needs of the community. CCW organizes the #TreatmentNotTrauma campaign to build a citywide non-police crisis response and reopening the public mental health centers in Chicago. [Website] [IG]
Da Crib: Da Crib is a community home base that works solo or in partnership to introduce more safe spaces in disenfranchised communities. By bridging the gap between young people and their access to safe environments, Da Crib aims to allow them a space to be at peace and to breathe. [Website] [IG]
Grassroots Collaborative: Grassroots Collaborative builds power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training. Their 9 member organizations and 125,000 members, along with an effective and diverse set of ally organizations across movements, create transformative change to win fully funded resources for our public schools, social services, and affordable housing that working families depend on. [Website] [IG]
Healthy Hood: Healthy Hood is a community based, non-profit health organization based in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, dedicated to decreasing the life expectancy gap between affluent & Black/Brown communities. In addition to arts, community healing and wellness programming and an athletic training seminar, Healthy Hood offers consciousness-raising political education. [Website] [IG]
Papalotzin Healing Collective: Community-rooted healing collective dedicated to collective care offering reiki, sound healing, song circles, meditation and community clinics. [IG]
Sana Healing Collective: Sana Healing Collective is a Chicago-based non-profit organization committed to individualized, client-led approaches promoting the well-being of the whole person and community. They are committed to the development of psychedelic-assisted therapy, including ketamine-assisted therapy, along with other integrative practices. [Website] [IG]
Sista Afya Community Care: Sista Afya Community Care was founded as a response to the mental health inequity impacting the lives of Black women in Chicago. Sista Afya Community Care disrupts mental health inequity by removing cost, centering culture and community in mental wellness care. SACC is the nonprofit arm of the social enterprise Sista Afya Community Mental Wellness, providing free, culturally-centered community mental wellness services for Black women from all walks of life. [Website]
Social Service Workers United: Social service workers and social work students in Chicagoland organizing for better pay, improved working conditions, and collective liberation. [IG]
Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP): STOP builds the power of low-income and working Black residents — in Woodlawn, Greater Grand Crossing, and surrounding neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago — to impact the forces and decisions that affect our lives. They organize communities around preservation and improvement of affordable housing, a Community Benefits Agreement for the Obama Presidential Center, the reopening of shuttered mental health centers and empower students in organizing around the issues they choose. [Website] [IG]
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