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# July is BIPOC Mental Health Month, and you’re invited
- URL: https://www.chudgar.com/support-bipoc-mental-health/
- Published: 2023-07-13T17:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-05T19:31:35.000Z
- Description: This month, I’m inviting you to join me in supporting Mental Health Liberation. Our donations will help connect people of color with high-quality mental healthcare from BIPOC providers, at no cost — and support BIPOC clinicians during their training and early careers.
- Author: Ash Chudgar
- Tags: News, Healing, Healthcare, Justice

****Individual trauma and social oppression tend to harm people in similar ways, and they need similar kinds of healing.** People of color in the United States, particularly Black and Indigenous folks, bear the heaviest burdens of both kinds of harm — and they’re also the least likely to have get the support they need to heal.

That’s not just because white supremacy makes *all* forms of support harder to access for people of color, although it certainly does. It’s because the very idea of “mental health” [excluded people of color from the start](https://ct.counseling.org/2020/05/the-historical-roots-of-racial-disparities-in-the-mental-health-system/?ref=chudgar.com). That’s been changing since the middle of the 20th century, but *far* too slowly — which is why it matters that July is nationally recognized as BIPOC Mental Health Month.

#### This month, I’m inviting you to join me in supporting [Mental Health Liberation](https://mentalhealthliberation.org/?ref=chudgar.com). Our donations will help connect people of color with high-quality mental healthcare from BIPOC providers, at no cost — and support BIPOC clinicians during their training and early careers.

[Donate to Mental Health Liberation](https://mentalhealthliberation.org/bipoc-therapy-fund/?ref=chudgar.com)