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The following directory includes mental health and educational resources to inform, guide, and inspire individuals seeking information for their whole health and wellness. Resources also include organizations that are meeting the needs of education, social justice, advocacy, activism, and healing for communities during times of strife.
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- Support Groups
Office of the Healthcare Advocate
If you need healthcare or healthcare coverage or have problems with your coverage and don’t know where to turn, please call us. The Office of the Healthcare Advocate (OHA) is an independent agency here to help you understand what options you have, how to get and fight for your healthcare...
- Educational Resources
One Village Healing
Established in April 2019, at the intersection of arts, liberation, and placemaking, One Village Healing [OVH] set out to be a haven for wellness and resilience rooted in the values of the healing justice movement. OVH has emerged to assist in creating healing community for everyone. We believe it is...
- Mental Health
Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
Open Path provides people in need with access to transformative and affordable mental and holistic health care. We envision a just, compassionate world where all people can easily access the care they need to thrive. In partnership with mental health clinicians in private practice throughout the fifty states and Canada,...
- Mental Health
- Support Groups
- Youth & Young Adult
Out CT
OutCT is committed to creating a network of people, programs and experiences that celebrate our growing understanding of sexual and gender identities in Southeastern Connecticut.
- Mental Health
Outpatient Urban Trauma Center
The Outpatient Urban Trauma Center, funded by the Department of Children and Families, seeks to reach individuals who have experienced these types of traumas. The OUTC provides outpatient mental health services within the target population of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and/or multi- racial and other minority children ages 4-18 and...
- Educational Resources
- Social Justice
People Against Police Brutality
People Against Police Brutality has been organizing around police accountability in New Haven since 2010. Right now we are focused on a statewide campaign to empower every city in Connecticut to build a real tool for police accountability--a Civilian Review Board with subpoena power. We have been working on a...
- Educational Resources
- Social Justice
People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a national, multiracial, anti-racist collective of organizers and educators, is dedicated to building a movement for social transformation. Our aim is to undo racism and other forms of oppression.
- Community Education
- Educational Resources
- Mental Health
- Support Groups
PFLAG
PFLAG is the nation's first and largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. Connecticut has chapters in Hartford, Norwalk, Tolland-Mansfield, Waterbury, and Enfield.
- Educational Resources
- Social Justice
Police Brutality Center
Police Brutality Center exists to bring awareness to the growing epidemic of police brutality, racial profiling, and excessive force. If we can help save one more life or avoid the severe injury of one more innocent person, our mission will be successful. We believe that the tools and content provided...
- Educational Resources
- Social Justice
PolicyLink
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by Lifting Up What Works®.
- Community Education
- Educational Resources
- Social Justice
Portland CT Social Justice Coalition
The Portland Social Justice Coalition was created in July 2020 in Portland, CT. The Coalition was formed in response to protests against police violence and systemic racism across our country and conversations here in town about social justice issues which affect our own community. We are a non-partisan, growing network...
- Educational Resources
Portland Youth & Family Services
We're working on bringing a series of talks to youth, parents, and anyone interested. We're focusing on issues relevant to our youth and their parents: prevention, mental health, justice, diversity.
- Educational Resources
- Mental Health
Preventing Self-Harm: What You Should Know if You Want to Offer Help
For those who want to intervene, simply wrapping their minds around the concept of self-harm can be a challenge. But understanding the intention for self-harm can increase a person’s empathy and ability to help those in need.
- Educational Resources
Pride in the Hills Fund
The Mission of the Pride in the Hills Fund is to support, inspire, and celebrate LGBTQ+ people in the Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills. Our Vision is that we help create communities where all LGBTQ+ people thrive. The Purpose of this event is to raise funds that we distribute...
Processing Attacks in Israel and the Outbreak of War in the Region
Help students process violence, terror, and the loss of life in the wake of attacks in Israel and Israel's declaration of war against Hamas.
- Educational Resources
PsychologyDegrees.org
PsychologyDegrees.org is the most comprehensive psychology degree guide on the web. With over 3,100 different psychology degrees and 1,700 different universities in our database that have a psychology degree program offering, we are the top resource for finding an accredited psychology degree.
- Community Education
- Educational Resources
- Mental Health
Psycom.net
A Mental Health Resource Since 1996
- Educational Resources
Public Art for Racial Justice Education (PARJE)
We commission and engage artists to create Public Art + Educational Programming for each of our communities in Eastern Connecticut. Town by town, working in partnership with art schools, museums, faith communities, civic organizations and concerned citizens we provide opportunities and models for community engagement through public art appropriate for...
- Community Education
- Educational Resources
- Mental Health
- Support Groups
- Youth & Young Adult
Q+
We work to create more youth accessible spaces, uplift youth voices, and empower queer youth. Our overall goal is to create space for queer youth to be authentically and entirely themselves. Every event and program we support is born of a need identified by queer young people, rather than suggested...
- Mental Health
Quality Counseling
We are a private Group Practice providing Affordable and Accessible Mental Health Therapy to Black Communities in Connecticut. Our mission is Reduce Mental Health Disparities in Black Communities and to help Black People move Past traumatic experiences such as; Racism, Sexual Abuse, Incarceration, and Child Abuse. We provide a Safe...
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