BIPOC

COVID-19

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition Grants and CAre Packages

Black Trans COVID-19 Community Response Grant provides mutual aid funds to individuals at their point of need during a government declared crisis.

Financial assistance is provided for emergency food, shelter, utilities, transportation and health care to ensure the basic needs of our most vulnerable populations are met.

Apply here: https://blacktrans.org/coronavirus-grant/

BTAC provides the transgender community FREE COVID-19 Care Packages to help ensure that you have free access to lifesaving personal protective equipment (PPE) and preventive care.

Care Package Kits:

PPE Kit: mask, hand soap, alcohol pads
Safe Sex Supply Kit: condoms,lube, dental dams and instructions on how to use a condom
Personal Hygiene Kit: toothpaste,deodorant,bath soap
Food Pantry Kit: non-perishable food items

Apply here: https://blacktrans.org/services/care-package/

Phone: (855) 624-7715

Email: corp@blacktrans.org

Hours: Tues-Thur 10:00-6:00 CST

Mental Health

BEAM Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective

They aim to remove the barriers that Black people experience while accessing emotional/ mental health care services. To do so they promote education, training, advocacy, and the arts while also offering grants to support healing and parents.

https://www.beam.community/

NATIONAL QUEER AND TRANS THERAPISTS OF COLOR NETWORK

National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC).

They have a directory to search for providers.

Website: https://www.nqttcn.com/

Strong Hearts Native Helpline

StrongHearts Native Helpline is a safe domestic, dating and sexual violence helpline for American Indians and Alaska Natives, offering culturally-appropriate support and advocacy daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. CT. Anonymous and confidential.

Call: 1-844-762-8483

Website/Chat: https://www.strongheartshelpline.org/

Call Blackline

The purpose of the BlackLine is to provide people with an avenue to report negative, physical and inappropriate contact with police and vigilantes. Vigilante contact is included, due to what happens to folks in rural and suburban communities from local community members. BlackLine is an anonymous and confidential avenue to report these interactions.

Helping the most-impacted folks through crisis, abuse, and mistreatment. Call BlackLine prioritizes BIPOC.(Black, Indigenous and People of Color).

Phone (call or text): 1 (800) 604-5841

Website: https://www.callblackline.com/

Advocacy & Education

Familia: TQLM

Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (Familia:TQLM) works at the local and national levels to achieve the collective liberation of trans, queer, and gender nonconforming Latinxs through building community, organizing, advocacy, and education.

Website: https://familiatqlm.org/

We R Native

WeRNative is a comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them.

Website: https://www.wernative.org/

Native American Rights Fund (NARF)

"Since 1970, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has provided legal assistance to Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide who might otherwise have gone without adequate representation. NARF has successfully asserted and defended the most important rights of Indians and tribes in hundreds of major cases, and has achieved significant results in such critical areas as tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, natural resource protection, and Indian education. NARF is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that focuses on applying existing laws and treaties to guarantee that national and state governments live up to their legal obligations."

Website: https://www.narf.org/

resources specific to Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)