Resources for the Alkeme Community

If you or a loved one is in immediate danger of harming themselves or others, it may be necessary to call 911 or head to your nearest emergency room.

Emergency services are not always safe options for the Black community so here are a few tips to minimize unnecessary harm:

• Inform the 911 operator that this is a psychiatric emergency.
• Ask for police officers and first responders trained in crisis intervention or trained to support people and families experiencing a psychiatric emergency.

It’s not only just about wanting to end your life. Crises are moments of intense emotional and mental pain that you may need support with.

Below you’ll find crisis lines and warm lines that you can text, call and message online to seek support from a trained crisis responder who’s focused on helping you get through this tough time.

Warm lines are created to support people on a temporary or short term 
basis (not therapy) who just need someone to talk to and listen to what they’re going through. Warm lines are not emergency services or crisis lines, and can 
be useful when you need someone to talk to but don’t have an available community to lean on.

The Trevor Project

24/7 Crisis intervention, resources and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth (ages 13-24)

Hotline: 1-866-488-7386

Resources for Black LGBTQ youth:

How To Support Black LGBTQ youth

Black and LGBTQ: Approaching Intersectional Conversations

BlackLine

A space for peer support, counseling, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences to folxs who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens.

Hotline: 1-(800)-604-5841 24/7 Text or Call.

Hurdle

Hurdle provides Culturally Intentional Teletherapy and respects the unique needs of everyone. With cultural humility, Hurdle creates a safe space where all people can show up as they are and feel understood. Hurdle is committed to providing culturally responsive, and evidence-based care to all people, while focusing on serving People of Color and other minority groups.

Quartet

Quartet is a leading tech-enabled mental health company that works with health plans, systems, and provider groups to deliver speed to quality mental health care for all. Through sophisticated data and analytics, along with personalized services, Quartet exists to advance quality care as defined by four measures: speed to care, seamless patient experiences, improved health outcomes, and affordability.

Psychology Today

Psychology Today is the world’s largest mental health and behavioral science destination online. It is the original and largest publishing enterprise that is exclusively dedicated to human behavior. Psychology Today’s motto is “Here to Help,” and the resources you’re accessing right now are the worldwide destination of choice for expert-authored information about psychology and mental health.

BetterHelp

BetterHelp is the world’s largest therapy service. BetterHelp connects people who face life's challenges with a provider from our broad network of licensed, accredited, and board-certified therapists. Every month, members and therapists use our website and mobile app to facilitate millions of secured messages, chats, voice calls, and video sessions.

TalkSpace

Talkspace is a digital behavioral technology healthcare company. Its signature psychotherapy product connects individual clients with a network of thousands of licensed therapists through an easy-to-use and HIPAA-compliant web and mobile platform. With Talkspace, clients can send their dedicated therapists text, video, and voice messages anytime, from anywhere, and engage in live video sessions.

Therapy for Black Girls

Committed to the mental wellness of Black women and girls. Our goal is to make mental health more accessible and relevant. We specialize in providing resources to decrease the barriers that make it difficult for Black women and girls to get quality mental health services.

Therapy for Black Girls is an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls.

Black Men Heal

Black Men Heal provides safe, nonjudgmental, and supportive spaces for men of color to share their similar struggles, frustrations, fears, questions, and uncertainties around any area of life with their peers. They want men to be able to experience the power of surrounding yourself with other men who are committed to healing. Groups are led by a specially trained therapist facilitator to help you feel more supported and less alone. Black Men Heal offers eight free therapy sessions (state depending).

Check out their Kings Corner programming. Kings Corner is a virtual weekly meetup group for men held through Zoom. Each week there is a different topic applicable to men’s mental health issues or struggles, as well as a different qualified host specialized in the topic.

InnoPsych

InnoPsych’s mission is to bring healing to communities of color by changing the face and feel of therapy. They strive to make therapists of color more visible in the community by creating a path to wellness-themed business ownership, and by making it faster (and easier) for people of color to match with a therapist of color. They also aim to create a major shift in how communities of color view therapy by educating about the necessity of taking care of mental health and to empower communities to heal.