What LGBTQIA2S+ BIPOC want Prevention Professionals to Know? Resources for the African American/Black population
These resources are part of the learning series titled ‘What LGBTQIA2S+ BIPOC want Prevention Professionals to Know?’ presented by the Central East PTTC, Central East ATTC, National American Indian & Alaska Natives PTTC, and the National Hispanic and Latino PTTC .
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The African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Website: https://africanamericanbehavioralhealth.org/index.aspx
Description: The African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence is a new national Center funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Our academic home is the National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine.
The Okra Project
Website: https://www.theokraproject.com/
Description: The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.
Harriet’s Apothecary
Website: http://www.harrietsapothecary.com/who-we-are
Description: An intergenerational, healing collective led by the brilliance and wisdom of Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, health professionals, magicians, activists and ancestors.
BLMP (Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project)
Website: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/programs/blmp
Description: We build and center the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants to ensure the liberation of all Black people through community-building, political education, creating access to direct services, and organizing across borders.
BEAM
Website: https://www.beam.community/
Description: BEAM is a national training, movement building and grant making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of Black and marginalized communities.
Center for Black Equity
Website: https://centerforblackequity.org/
Description: Multinational LGBTQ network dedicated to improving health and wellness opportunities, economic empowerment, and equal rights while promoting individual and collective work, responsibility, and self-determination
Loveland Foundation
Website: https://thelovelandfoundation.org/
Description: On-going therapy fund – in effort to bring opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially to Black women and girl
National Black Justice Coalition
Website: https://nbjc.org/
Description: Civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black LGBTQ people.
Black Hills Center for Equality
Website: http://www.bhcfe.org/
Description: This is a website for LGBTQ+ individuals in the Black Hills. It provides information on Pride and the Iris Clinic, which is a community health clinic specifically for the LGBTQ+ community. They offer checkups, mental health care, sexual health education, and re-affirm identities for their parents. Parents of patients can also receive education tools and support.