School for Poetic Computation | Student Resource Guide | Last Updated: Summer 2024 |
SFPC Student Resource Guide
The SFPC student resource guide is a living, collaborative document made with the intention of expanding the avenues of accessibility for our students to get the support they need. We see this document as a starting point, which we hope to continually build off of with the support and care of our community. Many of these resources are organizations of referrals we have personal knowledge or experience with and therein are based in the so-called continental United States, and New York where our school is based. If you have any questions about this document, or know of a resource that you think would be useful to this guide, please contact community@sfpc.study. We would particularly love to add international resources that might be valuable to our international student community. This document was last updated September 2024.
Free 🤑 | LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 | Virtual 💻 | In-person 📍 | Low-cost 💸 | Survivor Services ❤️🩹 | Mental Health Support 💛 | Legal ⚖️ | Basic Needs 🍎 |
Positive referral history 🏆 | Art + Education 🖼️ | Peer support 🫂 | Financial support 💰 | Medical 🩺 | Sliding scale 📶 | Resource📃 | POC lead/centered ✊🏾 | Repro Care ⚕️ |
Fireweed crisis toolkit📃💛🏆 | Trauma-informed anti-carceral strategies for navigating or supporting folks in mental health crisis |
NAMI📍💻🤑💛🫂 | offers a litany of zoom & phone peer support groups ranging from LGBTQ issues, hearing voices, spirituality lead by folks with self-identified experiences of mental health conditions or any lived experience interacting with mental health systems. |
Asian Mental Health Collective💻🤑💛✊🏾🫂 | Offers free support groups led by Asian mental health professionals to provide a space for Asian-identifying individuals to connect with and seek support from other members. Each support group runs for 8 weeks and there is no cost to attend these sessions. Free, virtual, support groups |
South Asian Mental Health Initiative & Network💻🤑💛✊🏾🫂 | mental wellness support group (young adult 18-30) free & virtual sign up form here! |
Hidden Waters📍💻🤑💛❤️🩹🫂🏆 | Free, online peer recovery groups for childhood survivors of sexual violence. Healing circles are intimate, confidential spaces for us, made up of 8-10 individuals who share a similar personal experience with child sexual abuse. |
Narika's domestic violence peer-support group📍💻🤑❤️🩹✊🏾🫂 | free/virtual registration form. Narkira is a Bay-area based non-profit providing domestic violence services to south asian and immigrant survivors. |
NYC Anti-Violence Project (AVP) 24-hour hotline 212-714-1141💻🤑❤️🩹💛🏳️🌈⚖️🏆 | Free, bilingual (English/Spanish), 24-hour, 365-day-a-year crisis intervention hotline (212-714-1141) that is staffed by trained volunteers and our professional counselor/advocates to offer support to LGBTQ & HIV-affected victims and survivors of any type of violence. Callers receive free immediate crisis counseling and on-going short or long-term counseling and other supportive services, including police, court and social services advocacy and accompaniment. |
Immi⚖️📃🤑 | Free online screening tool that provides legal information and referrals to nonprofit legal services organizations (by Justicia Network and Probono.net) by using this self-service tool to help applicants understand which documentations/status pathways may be best for them to pursue. |
T4t caregiving doula📍🏳️🌈🩺📶 | Sliding scale, post-operative Gender Affirming surgery support |
Trans Lifeline USA (877) 565-8860🏳️🌈💛🤑💻 | Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. |
TLDEF Name Change project🏳️🌈⚖️🤑🏆 | Qualifying Residence Localities Atlanta, GA (Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett Counties) Chicago, IL (Cook County) New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union, and Middlesex Counties) New York City (All Five Boroughs) Long Island, NY (Nassau and Suffolk Counties) Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia County) Pittsburgh, PA (Allegheny County) Pro bono legal name change services to low-income transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people through partnerships with some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms and corporate law departments. |
Identification Change Resource Library - Trans Lifeline🏳️🌈⚖️🤑📃 | Community-supported effort to create and maintain the widest readily accessible database of all the local and national information surrounding ID changes in one place – including Tribal IDs, immigration documents, military documents, and name changes for people with previous criminal records. |
Transgender Law Center🏳️🌈⚖️🤑📃 | The Legal Information Helpdesk provides basic information about laws and policies in the United States that affect transgender people across many areas, including employment, health care, housing, civil rights, immigration, prisoners’ rights, and identity document changes. |
Loveland Therapy Fund💛✊🏾💰 | from their website: “With the barriers affecting access to treatment by members of diverse ethnic and racial groups, the Loveland Therapy Fund provides financial assistance to Black women and girls.” |
NQTTCN Mental Health Fund💛✊🏾🏳️🌈💰 | from their website “The MHF provides financial assistance to Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color to increase access to mental health support for QTBIPOC by QTBIPOC.” |
Inclusive Therapist Network💛✊🏾🏳️🌈📃 | Inclusive Therapists is a social justice and liberation-oriented mental health directory, community, and resource hub. They offer a safer, simpler way to find a therapist, counselor or coach committed to collective liberation and healing: Racial, 2SLGBTQIA+, Neurodivergence, and Disability Justice. |
A full-spectrum doula is a community care worker who offers support to people during the full spectrum of pregnancy – from preconception, to birth, to abortion, to miscarriage, to adoption, to postpartum
Doula Project's Medication Abortion Support Hotline Text 1 (844) 518-1672🩺🤑💻⚕️ | National 24/7 compassionate non-medical emotional & informational support from trained doulas during a medication abortion. All conversations are confidential and anonymous text-based chats. Available to anyone having a medication abortion in the USA. |
National Network of Abortion Funds🩺🤑💰⚕️ | Abortion funds provide the financial and logistical abortion support. Resource page to connect with abortion funds, find trustworthy clinics, educational materials to navigate, understand health insurance coverage for abortions, and more. Including a national map of safe and accessible abortion clinics, with hyper customizable search options. |
JustBirth Space💻🩺🤑✊🏾⚕️ | informed services and offers free virtual doula services. They offer a lot of virtual support groups and a wealth of specialized virtual services as well. Pretty queer and POC centered. Helpful brochure here |
Queer Doula Network🩺🏳️🌈📶📍💻📃⚕️ | National directory of queer, sliding scale, full spectrum doulas for queer individuals seeking support during reproductive journeys. |
National Harm Reduction Coalition🩺🤑📃 | NHRC builds evidence-based strategies with and for people who use drugs. Find Naloxone near you. Find sterile syringes near you. |
12-Step Peer-based Services📍💻🫂💛🤑 | Free support groups for those who want to obtain or maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol utilizing a 12-step recovery model. Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. |
Just Practice💻📃🖼️📶 | Collaborative for activists, movement builders, community members, and abolitionists non-profit workers who want to deepen their Liberatory Harm Reduction skills and transformative justice practices. Trainings are offered on an ongoing basis with sliding scale payment options. Their Transformative Justice Help Desk offers a 1-1 consultation service for organizers, facilitators, social workers, and organizations providing transformative justice support. |
A Sacred Passing📍💻🩺📃🤑📶 | A Sacred Passing offers death and dying education to individuals, community associations, and medical organizations. Offers virtual and in-person (WA), peer-support/ community care events, in-person resources (WA), and other ways to be supportive nonmedical companions. |
Reimagine📍💻🫂💛🤑📶 | low-cost & free expansive/holistic, rad online & irl grief-related support groups, workshops, & events |
Room for Grief💻🫂💛🤑📶 | Monthly, free, peer-led, virtual grief support group |
The Artists' Grief Deck🖼️💛 | Amazing interactive grief gallery |
The Grief Gallery🖼️💛 | cool mourning/art/archiving project that is v accessible and hopefully healing to contribute to along with their free monthly support group, ( nex meeting is Wed April 26th, 2-3pm) ET facilitated by the project creator who is also a licensed grief counselor |
NYC tenant helpline⚖️📃🍎 | a one-stop shop to inform New York City tenants about their rights and connect them to housing-related resources, including free legal services: Information and education on tenant rights; Referrals for enforcement; Landlord/tenant mediation; Referrals to cash assistance, SNAP, Homebase; etc. |
Guide to NYC Food Pantries🍎 | Use this application to find locations that offer free food (food pantries and soup kitchens). Hours and locations. DownloadPlentiful App and set up an account to find food local pantries and soup kitchens Text FOOD to 726879 to reserve food at a nearby pantry. |
Food Resource Guide-Midtown🍎📃 | The Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center’s compiled list of the most current and accurate data on food resource guides in NYC, which are continually updated. |
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center📍🏳️🌈🩺💛🤑📶⚕️ | Free and low cost medical and mental health care for low-income LGBTQ New Yorkers. new patient instructions here. Locations: Chelsea: 356 West 18th St. New York, NY 10011 P: (212) 271-7200 Bronx: 3144 3rd Ave, Bronx, NY 10451 P:(718) 215-1800 Brooklyn: 40 Flatbush Ave Ext, Brooklyn, NY 11201 P: (718) 215-1818 |
APICHA📍🏳️🌈🩺💛✊🏾🤑📶⚕️🏆 | Low-cost and free medical and mental health services. Accepts both medicaid and Fideles. New patient faqs. New patient scheduler link here. Specializes in working with low-income, LGBTQ folks, and communities of color. Locations: Manhattan: 400 Broadway New York, NY 10013 P:(212) 334-6029 Queens: 82-11 37th Avenue Jackson Heights, NY 11372 Get Directions Phone: (718) 567-5200 |
The Brooklyn Free Clinic📍🩺🤑⚕️ | Must be 18+ and uninsured to receive services Appointments strongly suggested. Limited number of walk-ins available every Wednesday beginning at 4:30 pm; request online or call. Services are free of charge. New patient appointments are always scheduled with primary care clinic. Once evaluated, they will refer for specialty services as needed. Location: 470 Clarkson Avenue Suite A Brooklyn, NY 11203 (347) 688-6655, info@brooklynfreeclinic.org |
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York📍🩺🤑📶⚕️ | Free and sexual health care including but not limited to access to STI testing, birth control, abortion care, HRT, and more! Make virtual appointments here or find a location nearest to you here |
Online Resources for Healing & Resilience📃❤️🩹 | Web guide for healing after sexual violence from Columbia University |
CVTC📍💻❤️🩹🫂💛⚖️🤑🏆 | The Crime Victims Treatment Center has several offices throughout the city that offer rad (virtual + in-person l short + long-term) survivor-affirming counseling as well as several therapeutically-led peer support groups and critical legal services, All services free of cost. CVTC offers a unique range of substantive and quality of services. Provide useful resources to survivors in all stages of sexual harm/assault recovery, directly after harm/crisis or a significant time after. Overview of their services. They schedule appointments for intakes via phone (@ 212-523-4728). |
The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault 2024 Resource Guide📃❤️🩹 | Comprehensive and traditional resource guide from NYCAASA |
NYC Crisis Respite Centers📍💛🫂🤑🏆 | CRC’s are an incredibly meaningful alternative option to traditional inpatient psychiatric hospitalization care for folk navigating mental health crises, who do not believe themselves to be an imminent harm to themselves or others. Programs provide 24/7 residential support centers staffed by trained peers (folks with lived experience navigating mental health) Stays available for up to one week. Referral by a licensed mental health care (therapist, or any LMSW) provider required (programs may be able to connect you to one). One or more exist in every borough. Below is information on the most popular locations. Community Access (Manhattan) 315 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003 646-257-5665 x8401 Mosaic Mental Health (Bronx) 640-642 West 232nd Street Bronx, NY 10463 718-884-2992
Services for the Underserved (Brooklyn) 2118 Union Street Brooklyn, NY 11212 347-505-0870
Transitional Services for New York (Queens) 80-45 Winchester Blvd. Queens Village, NY 11427 718-464-0375 |
New York City Anti-Violence Project📍💻❤️🩹🫂💛⚖️🤑🏆 | Outside of the 24-hour-hotline AVP offers ongoing supportive counseling & support groups for LGBTQ survivors of domestic, sexual, or hate-based violence. They provide free, trauma-informed therapeutic (group and individual counseling) services for a 1-2 year span. If you're interested in enrolling in counseling services you can call their hotline at 212-714-1141 or use this form, and someone will get back to you within 24-48 hours. |
Fireweed Collective💻🫂💛📃🤑🏆 | Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice and Disability Justice lens. We support the emotional wellness of all people and center QTBIPOC folks in our internal leadership, programs, and resources. Free support + community groups and events. |
OnTrack📍💛🫂🤑🏆 | Holistic program for those who have been labeled with experiences of "psychosis" grounded in self-determination, peer recovery, resource building etc. OT is a program for people ages 18-30. Good for folks who want affirming counseling and resources through the program without being forced to accept labels, or interventions (like medication). Find the center nearest to you |
Global Trauma Research📍💻💛✊🏾 | Org that works specifically with Caribbean, Haitian, and Latinx communities, their mission is to increase access to culturally responsive trauma counseling and education services to underserved communities. They take a range of insurances as well as sliding scale clients. More on their services and how to book a consultation. Counseling, medication management, accepts many insurances, alternative medicine care, multilingual services |
NY State of Health Marketplace📃🍎🩺 | one-stop-shop for new yorkers to shop for, compare and enroll in health coverage. Please see the individual marketplace page to create an account and begin application. It is all relatively user friendly and straightforward. Marketplace Prerequisites:
Application Assistance: You can get additional assistance by calling the Customer Service Center at 1-855-355-5777; visiting nystateofhealth.ny.gov; or speaking with a certified enrollment assistant. Find one here. |
UnLocal📍💻⚖️📃🍎🏳️🌈✊🏾🤑 | Legal services and consultation. Tons of programming from clothing swaps to open mics, legal services, theater groups, etc! Areas of legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, NACARA, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) UnLocal’s Queer Immigrant Justice Project (QIJP): provides LGBTQ+ affirming legal representation for LGBTQ+ immigrants. |
CUNY Citizenship Now!📍💻⚖️📃🏳️🌈✊🏾🤑🏆 | Provides free consultations and application assistance for: Naturalization; Family-based petitions; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); Temporary Protected Status (TPS); Certificates of citizenship; Renewal and replacement of immigration documents; Full and partial fee waiver requests Call 646-664-9400 or 212-652-2071 (No texts) Text 929-334-3784 (No calls)l Email: citizenshipnowinfo@cuny.edu l Request a call by completing this form. |
The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center📍💻⚖️📃🍎🏳️🌈✊🏾🤑🏆 | SWP offers full and limited representation for deportation defense, immigration screenings, consultations, and representation on immigration cases before the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. Offer assistance with asylum, withholding of removal, convention against torture, T-Nonimmigrant status, adjustment of status, naturalization, and work authorizations. We also provide referrals for various issues including vacatur, social services, benefits enrollment, and name changes. Telephone: 646-602-5617 Email: swp@urbanjustice.org SWP does not receive walk-in clients or inquiries. Please call our helpline at 646-602-5617 |
New York Peace Institute📍💻🫂⚖️📃🏳️🌈✊🏾🤑🏆 | Extremely reputable, radical, and accessible mediation organization. Additional information on their mediation (individual or small group) and restorative justice (larger community) services. You fill out a general services intake via this online form! NYPI’s note on cost: New York Peace Institute is a not-for-profit agency. Our professionally trained mediators are volunteers and our services are provided cost-free to New York City residents in Brooklyn and Manhattan. |
Institute for Mediation and Conflict 📍🫂⚖️📃✊🏾📶🤑 | (Bronx-based) Alternative to court for what would otherwise be legal matters. Issues related to: Landlord/tenant; Customer/Merchant; Tenant/Tenant;Child Custody and Visitation;Divorce Mediation and minor criminal matters. Interest form on mediation page |
Manhattan Alternative📃💛🏳️🌈 | Network of unaffiliated, independently practicing therapeutic service providers who are sex-positive, affirmative, and have expertise related to issues faced by kink, poly, consensually non-monogamous, trans, gender non-conforming, and/or LGBQ individuals, as well as current or former adult industry workers. |
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy📍💻💛📶🏆 | Reliable organization for obtaining quality and affordable therapy options. They accept many major insurances as well as offer affordable sliding-scale rates based on income. Definitely LGBTQ compentent w specific services other varying adult treatment options focus areas - request an intake here, or it can be done by phone. They have open availability often. |
NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy💻💛🏳️🌈✊🏾📶🏆 | Sliding scale mental health practice serving individual adults ages 18-65; especially committed to serving queer communities of color, fully virtual practice
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Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center💻💛🏳️🌈📶🏆 |
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NYC Provider Directory📍🩺🍎🤑 | Find (ROBUST) list of local organizations and providers for: HIV Care, Hepatitis C (HCV) care and rapid testing, PrEP, PEP, Buprenorphine(1), STI testing and care services, Opioid Overdose Prevention Programs(2):The programs listed in this directory are locations where naloxone can be obtained), ESAP - Expanded Syringe Access Program, Syringe Exchange Program (SEP) Services. |
OnPoint NYC📍🩺🍎🫂💛🏆🤑 | largest harm reduction service provider on the east coast providing medical care, needle exchanges, case management, drop-in and safe-use center (overdose prevention center) services, hot meals, acupuncture, and so much more. Please see their incredibly robust list of amazing services on the about us portion of their main page. OnPoint NYC (Washington Heights) Address: 500 West 180th Street, Second Floor, Manhattan Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. OnPoint NYC (East Harlem) Address: 104-106 East 126th Street, Manhattan Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Phone: (212) 828-8464 (both locations) Email: info@onpointnyc.org |
12-Step Peer-based Services📍💻🫂💛🤑 | Free support groups for those who want to obtain or maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. New York AA meeting finder and New York Narcotics Anonymous. New York LGBTQ meetings. |
A full-spectrum doula is a community care worker who offers support to people during the full spectrum of pregnancy – from preconception, to birth, to abortion, to miscarriage, to adoption, to postpartum
Ancient Song Doula Services📍🫂⚕️🩺🤑📶 | (BK based) community doula program intake/matching form can be found here one of the only orgs in NY using explicit abortion-centered language. Black-run org, longtime leaders in the nyc rad doula networks. Allegedly "Services range from free to low cost depending on the needs of the clients we are serving and NO ONE is ever turned away!" |
Grand Street Healing Project📍📶 | extensive of low-cost sliding-scale community care offerings such as acupuncture, breathwork, and reiki, and other forms of body work |
The Audre Lorde Project📍🖼️🏳️🌈✊🏾🤑 | Community events and programs for queer POC folks ranging from community care clinics, political actions & community discussions to beach days, cookouts etc! Great place for meeting other politized qtpoc folks in NYC. |
NYC LGBTQ Center📍🏳️🌈🤑 | peer + social support groups sign up form here |
Cumbe Dance📍🖼️✊🏾🤑 | donation-based (free!) virtual and in-person (BK) an array of dance classes of the african diasporic traditions class schedule |
(W)Ratchet Studies 101📍🖼️🏳️🌈✊🏾🤑 | Free, in-person black feminist theory class running cyclically in NYC |
[1] Anti-racist Education Working Group
[2] Student agency is referenced from demands (https://pad.riseup.net/p/sfpcstudy-keep) authored on September 26, 2020 by (listed alphabetically by last name) Zainab Aliyu, American Artist, Max Bittker, Neta Bomani, Emma Rae Bruml, Nabil Hassein, Melanie Hoff, Celine Wong Katzman, Ashley Jane Lewis, and Galen macdonald.
[5]In it Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups, 10
[6]In It Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups, 11
[7]Consent Academy
[8]According to SFPC: Sex Ed 2022 teacher Daemonum X
[9] In It Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups, 12
[10] In It Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups, 12
[11]In It Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups, 13
[12]In it Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups, 16
[13]These guidelines were developed in the Reading into the Past / Writing into the Future class taught by Ashley Jane Lewis and Carey J. Flack in the Winter and Spring seasons in 2021-2022
[15]Inspired by SFPC’s collaboration with the Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP) during “Poetic Computation: Detroit” (2019). Read DCTP’s definition of steward at: https://detroitcommunitytech.org/eii
[16]In It Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups, 13
[17] adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy, 229
[20] https://nyctjhub.com/public_principles.html
[21] https://sfpc.io/codesocieties2020