Resource Page

Community Support

• Capuchin Soup Kitchen (Detroit)
• Citizen Detroit 
• https://deconstructingstigma.org/

Community Organizing

• Black Mental Health Alliance 
• Rest for Resistance
• The Love Land Foundation
• BOND Building Our Nation’s Daughters
• The Nap Ministry
• The State of Black Girls
• Sad Girls Club
• Dive in Well
• Faith Matters Network – Movement Chaplaincy. Jennifer Bailey (MDIV, Vanderbilt)
• TRACC – Trauma Response & Crisis Care
• Girl Trek
• Black Voters Matters Fund
• Assata Daughters
• Donny Hathaway Legacy Project 
• Protest Chicago 
• Black Lives Matter Chicago
• MyBlock, My Hood, My City (Chicago)
• Treatment Not Trauma Movement
• Intersectional Environmentalist
• Ethel’s Club
• https://www.bravespacealliance.org/ Brave Space Alliance
• Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference

For Clinicians

• My Therapy Card by Dr. Ebony 
• The Black Clinicians
• Black Psychoanalysts Speak
• Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious edited by Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian
• Academics for Black Survival and Wellness

Holistic Health

• It’s Time Natural Health

Podcast

• Brown Girl Self-Care Co.
• Balanced Black Girl
• Black Girl in Om
• The Light Watkins Show
• Count to Ten 

Music

• Beyonce – Brown skinned girl https://youtu.be/vRFS0MYTC1I
• Janelle Monae – Turntables https://youtu.be/8CFrCk6_0rM
• Victory – Open Your Eyes https://youtu.be/gxXytFFAqZQ
• Tems – Free Mind https://youtu.be/VDcEJE633rM
• Feel Good Playlist

Books

• Spiritual Care in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter by Danielle Buhuro
• The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris
• You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke
• Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color by Khristi Lauren Adams
• The State of Black Girls by Marline Francois-Madden
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Degruy
• The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health by Rheeda Walker
• Black Rage by William Grier and Price Cobbs
• Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men by Nicholas Grier
• Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

• The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love & Workbook by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Heal Thyself; Sacred Woman; The City of Wellness by Queen Afua
• Healing: The Act of Radical Self-Care by Dr. Joi Lewis
• Jennifer Lewis the mother of black Hollywood
• That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir by Stacey Patton 
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
• Sisters of the Yam by bell hooks
• Living While Black by Guilaine Kinouani
• The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas
• All About Love by bell hooks

Political Resources

League of Women Voters of Illinois

• https://www.lwvil.org/

• Register to vote

• Check your voter registration status

• Apply for Vote by Mail ballot

• Find out what is on your ballot (Voters’ guide)
• Resources- Briefing Materials, Criminal Justice Position, Voter Newsletter, Past studies, and more

Vote 411(election information)

• https://www.vote411.org/

• Local upcoming debates and forums – https://www.vote411.org/personalized-voting-info

Current Illinois Elected Representatives

• https://vote-usa.org/Officials.aspx?State=IL&Report=IL

Illinois Legislative Black Caucus

• https://www.ilbcf.org/

• Provides African American representation in the General Assembly and works to get legislative action directed to issues such as housing, health and welfare, education, employment and black businesses.