BIPOC Mental Health
"Student Success and Health is committed to supporting and helping PPS staff, families, and students to help create an inclusive space for students to meet and talk about their struggles."
Resmaa Menakem reminds us that “healing involves capacity and choices. Not everyone can heal according to the same timeline... for some people healing may not be safe at this particular moment, and they must wait for their circumstances to change”.
Culturally-Specific Mental Health Provider Agencies in Portland
Asian Health and Service Center
(Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean)
(Spanish, Arabic)
(Arabic, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Nepali, Russian, Spanish, Somali, & Zomi)
Tribal Mental Health and Substance Use Counseling
Dougy Center Esperanza group starts this Spring!
Dougy Center offers a free Spanish language grief support group called Esperanza. The group is designed for families who have had someone in their life die. The group is open to children, teens and their parents/cregivers. Esperanza meets on Saturday afternoons at Dougy Center. For more information, please contact us 503.775.5683 or help@dougy.org
"The Safe Place" Is a Minority Mental Health App geared towards the Black Community. -Apple App store
App features: mental health statistics, inspirational quotes, self care tips, mental health videos and podcasts, mental health articles, open forum discussions.
Liberate is a safe space for the Black community to develop a daily meditation habit.
App features: dharma talks and guided meditations on topics like microaggressions, ancestors, and toxic masculinity.
"Our vision is to be the number one supplier of African Centered books, accessories and gifts in the Portland Metro Area. We believe our products can be used as a tool to motivate, inspire, restore or enhance a persons cultural pride and to bring forth happiness and healing into the hearts of our customers." Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah