2022 Racial Justice Mental Behavioral Health Portfolio
2022
- Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM) – $250,000
- To support the removal of barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing through education, training, advocacy, and the creative arts.
- The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation – $300,000
- To support the eradication of the stigma around mental health issues in the African-American community.
- The Confess Project – $130,000
- To support building a culture of mental health for Black boys, men, and their families through capacity building, advocacy, organizing and movement building through activating barbers with mental health awareness and resources.
- Drug Policy Alliance – $400,000
- To support research, policy and other alternatives to the war on drugs which disproportionately criminalizes communities of color and compounds the harms of co-occurring mental and behavioral health disorders.
- Latinx Therapists Action Network – $150,000
- To support a platform and network of Latinx mental health practitioners honoring and affirming the dignity and healing of migrant communities marginalized by criminalization, detention, and deportation.
- Mental Health Liberation – $50,000
- To connect Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BI&POC) with quality therapy, support clinicians of color, and help dismantle systemic inequity and reclaim healing for melanated, marginalized and displaced Peoples.
- National Queer and Trans People of Color Network – $130,000
- To support the transformation of mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC).
- Native American Connections, Inc. – $300,000
- To support the improvement of the lives of individuals and families through culturally appropriate behavioral health.
- The Sky Center/New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project – $200,000
- To support meeting the challenge of youth suicide in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico through lasting solutions that encourage resiliency, courage, connection and hope.
- The Steve Fund (Stephen C. Rose Legacy Foundation) – $250,000
- To support programs and strategies that build understanding and assistance for the mental and emotional health of the nation’s young people of color.