Mental Health Resources

Black mental health matters. We have compiled the list of resources below in collaboration with the Black & Latinx Student Caucus at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. This list draws inspiration from an article written by Zahra Barnes titled 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country.

Virtual Support Groups
- These virtual support spaces are open to students who have paid the Columbia Health and Related Services Fee.
Nightline Peer Listening: A peer listening service offered by trained and certified undergraduate Columbia students, meant to support callers with stress and mental wellbeing.
Check emails from the Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion for community processing spaces organized by Dean Karma Lowe and DEI Program Coordinator Christopher Won

Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation - This foundation was founded in 2018 with a vision to eradicate the stigma around mental health issues in the African American community. They are offering free virtual therapy on a first serve basis until all funds are committed or exhausted.
The Steve Fund - For young students of color. Text STEVE to 741741 for a live, trained Crisis Counselor

*Indicates that services are also offered virtually

Black Men Heal - Pennsylvania - provides access to group and individual therapy and mental health resources to men of color
Black Mental Health Alliance - Nationwide
Melanin and Mental Health - Nationwide
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network - Nationwide - also offering financial assistance to QTPoC through their Mental Health Fund
*Counseling Space - New York - counseling for business owners and professionals working in high stressful environments
*Henry Health - Virginia, Maryland, D.C., but currently expanding
*Inclusive Therapists - Nationwide
*Open Path Collective - Nationwide - offering a steeply reduced rates to individuals, couples, children, and families
*Sista Afya Community Mental Wellness - Illinois
*Therapy for Black Girls - Nationwide

Many of these healing spaces are currently offering online services such as live yoga and meditation videos.

Ethel's Club - Brooklyn based social and wellness clubhouse for POC
Heal Haus - Brooklyn based and inclusive wellness space with a cafe and meditation/yoga classes.

Ebony Tower - Action Lab's own podcast. Each episode explores the nexus between power and the production of knowledge in academic disciplines by taking up the following: What responsibility does academia have to social justice? What exactly are the historic practices of white supremacy, colonialism and anti-Blackness and how, if at all, do they manifest in higher education? How does higher education reproduce and uphold structures of racism through academic practice and knowledge production?
Balanced Black Girl
Melanin and Mental Health
Therapy for Black Girls

American Addiction Services - Nationwide - dedicated to helping people with their mental health and substance abuse problems.

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