Make an Impact Today: Mental Health for People of Color

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we aim to bridge the gap in access to high quality mental health care for people of color by offering unique, free access to MyWellbeing’s proprietary Grounding Groups.

Grounding Groups are an opportunity to learn the social emotional tools, perspective, and coping skills that we all wish we learned but were never taught.

Trained mental health therapists teach on topics like how to better manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and more, in these interactive 60-minute sessions. All questions are welcome and participants walk away with comprehensive tools in their back pocket for when life inevitably throws a curveball. Along the way, participants build community, self-esteem, and, of course, grounding.

Each group can accommodate up to 50 people and is led by a leading, trained and highly experienced therapist of color. Help us provide care for 500 people!

1. We reach out to our waiting list of individuals seeking care and the waiting lists of our partner nonprofits to fill the groups.

2. We survey the participants about what topics they most need support around.

3. We reach out to the providers of color in our therapist community to identify practitioners who are willing to lead a group on that subject.

4. We work with practitioners to organize the groups.

5. The practitioners host the groups, helping participants develop comprehensive tools to support their mental health. The providers are paid fairly for their experience and service. 

Systemic racism plagues our country and the mental health industry is no exception. While people of color experience the highest rates of trauma, they also experience the highest financial barriers to care and the fewest culturally competent options for care.

Meanwhile, as there is a national shortage of therapists of color, if therapists of color want to provide financially accessible services to clients of color, they are often under increasing pressure to reduce their rates significantly below market rates, creating a steep and growing pay gap between providers of color and white providers.

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we are committed to more than verbal affirmations and posting on social media. We aim to leverage our reach, community, and values to sponsor as much free mental health care for people of color as possible while compensating providers of color competitive rates for their expertise. 

This effort matters now more than ever. Join us in this fight for mental health equity. Every dollar counts.