Emotional + Mental Health Community Resource Guide

Transparency Statement: Hi there! Dandelion Hill (they/them) here and I am a central organizer of this list; the following resource list was curated by Disabled, Mad, Mentally Ill folks as a framework for finding resources. For me, it has been helpful to find resources through word of mouth - I personally lean on trusted peers, but there are times when this method isn’t accessible / safe and that’s why myself and a collective of folks with lived experience created this guide.

Generally speaking, humans are unique, multifaceted, and nuanced so it's reasonable to expect that your needs may be different than someone else's. Please use the following list (non-exhaustive) as merely a guide to finding what works for you. While we have done our best to vet these resources, we simply cannot guarantee safety - if you have any issues with any of the information on this list OR if you want to add a resource please feel encouraged to reach out so they can be revised or removed. Dandelion@PeerSupportSpace.org

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Abolitionist Care Provider Directory : TinyUrl.com/AbolitionCareProviders 

This is a collective resource of abolition-centered, non-carceral care providers (therapists, social workers, peer supporters, healers) that are dedicated to providing care outside of oppressive systems (i.e. law enforcement, forced hospitalization, the psychiatric industrial complex).

Individual Peer Support Offerings from Peer Support Space: TinyUrl.com/1to1Support

No cost, individual peer support offerings by various persons with lived experience offered through Peer Support Space

Via Instagram: @TenderFruitsCollective - has a thread of highlights for various identities - all resources shared have been approached by the Tender Fruits Collective to ensure that they don’t engage in mandated reporting, carceral responses when engaging.

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Additional Individual Peer Support

  • HeyPeers.com - a site to connect with peer support groups, coaches, and trained peer support specialists anytime and anywhere from any device.
  • LivedExperienceCounsellor.com - is “counselling meets peer support that centers around building non-pathologizing and healing partnerships that are grounded in community care, neurodiversity, disability justice and anti-oppressive frameworks.” Sliding Scale.  
  • PeerSupportPlanet.com - Digital Peer Support, No health insurance is needed, everything is self-pay with a time-based sliding scale.
  • RisingUnstuck.com - 1:1 peer support (ranges from free to $25) - Queer, Disabled, Nonbinary Femme.
  • Survivorandco.com - a peer support and lived experience counselling organization that seeks to help survivors heal from trauma and childhood trauma; resources for healing from trauma, especially on disability justice, dissociation, and childhood trauma.
  • Tinyurl.com/QueerPeerSupport - a variety of Lived Experience based peer to peer support, in the form of consulting, 1 on 1 sessions, group sessions, and mentoring.
  • JourneyWithMentoring.com - Anti-Oppressive, Sliding Scale ($40-$60), Peer Support offered online.
  • YourQueerPeer.as.me - $30 sessions - Neurodivergent and queer lived experience counslor in NOLA. More information on IG @yrqueerpeer

Peer Support Lines

What is a Peer Support Line? A peer support line (sometimes referred to as a ‘warmline’) is a private phone line that you can call to get support, ask about resources, just talk.

  • Fireside Project: Psychedelic Peer Support Line 623-473-7433 (Phone & Text)

    Free, Confidential emotional support during & after a psychedelic experience.
     
  • Trans LifeLine (877) 565-8860

Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for trans people.Trans Lifeline does not engage in non-consensual active rescue. Since our founding, we have been divested from the police. That means that if you call us and are in crisis, we will not call 911 or the police — unless you explicitly ask us to.

This line does not collect personal information, perform assessment, or call crisis or the police. 7pm to 9pm Monday through Thursday, 7pm-10pm Friday through Sunday.