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Youth & Family
211: Local Food Pantries and Rent Aid

Connects you to local food pantries, rent aid and essential services.

211

Youth & Family
Addiction Digital Guide

A practical guide to understanding and treating digital and behavioural addiction.

Behavioral Health Partners

Youth & Family
Anger Management for Kids

Activities and strategies to help children recognise and work with anger.

Positive Psychology

Community & Advocacy
Arab Resource and Organizing Center

Community organizing and resources for Arab and Arab-American communities.

AROC

Educational
Art Therapy for Social Justice

Radical approaches to art therapy grounded in social justice and community practice.

Savneet Talwar

Community & Advocacy
Asian Mental Health Collective

Mental health resources and therapist directory for Asian communities.

AMHC

Community & Advocacy
BDS: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

Resource hub for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

BDS Movement

Youth & Family
Birth and Beyond Family Resources

Family resource centres offering parenting support and early childhood services.

Birth & Beyond

Crisis Support
BlackLine

Peer support, counseling and advocacy for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Call 800-604-5841.

BlackLine

Educational
Black Liturgies

Prayers, poems and meditations on Black bodies, dignity and rest.

Cole Arthur Riley

Educational
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

The foundational text on Black political self-determination.

Stokely Carmichael & Charles Hamilton

Educational
Black Rage

A landmark account of the psychological toll of racism in America.

William H. Grier & Price M. Cobbs

Couples
Building Healthy Relationships

Guidance on healthy relationships, consent and recognising abuse.

Love Is Respect

Critical Thinking
Capitalist Realism

Is there no alternative? On capitalism, mental health and imagination.

Mark Fisher

Crisis Support
Center for Pacific Asian Family

Domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse support. Multilingual line: 1-800-339-3940.

Center for Pacific Asian Family

Youth & Family
Combatting Digital Addiction

An introduction to digital addiction, its signs and ways to reduce screen dependence.

SimplyEducate

Educational
Consciencism

Philosophy and ideology for decolonization.

Kwame Nkrumah

Community & Advocacy
Creativity as Spirit: Re-Indigenization and Anticolonialism in Art Therapy

Scholarly article on re-indigenizing art therapy and resisting colonial frameworks in practice.

Taylor & Francis

Critical Thinking
Culture and Imperialism

How empire shaped the stories cultures tell about themselves and others.

Edward Said

Educational
Decolonizing Therapy

On grief, rage and the political roots of mental health, and what decolonial practice asks of us.

Dr. Jennifer Mullan

Educational
Decolonizing Trauma Work

Indigenous stories and strategies for healing.

Renee Linklater

Critical Thinking
Discourse on Thinking

On meditative thinking and our relationship to technology.

Martin Heidegger

Youth & Family
FindHelp: Food Assistance

Search local food, housing and financial assistance programmes by postcode.

FindHelp

Couples
Gottman Institute: Couples

Research-based tools and guidance for couples and relationships.

The Gottman Institute

Educational
Healing Resistance

A radically different response to harm, rooted in nonviolence.

Kazu Haga

Educational
Healing the Soul Wound

Trauma-informed counseling for Indigenous communities.

Eduardo Duran

Critical Thinking
How Fascism Works

The politics of us and them, and how authoritarianism takes hold.

Jason Stanley

Educational
How We Heal

Uncovering your power and setting yourself free.

Alexandra Elle

Educational
If They Come in the Morning

Essays on political prisoners, resistance and the carceral state.

Angela Davis

Critical Thinking
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

On the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West.

Wendy Brown

Educational
It Didn't Start With You

How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle.

Mark Wolynn

Immigrants
Know Your Rights

Know-your-rights guidance for immigrants and mixed-status families.

United We Dream

Educational
My Grandmother's Hands

Racialised trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies.

Resmaa Menakem

Youth & Family
National Alliance on Mental Illness

Education, advocacy and support for people affected by mental illness.

NAMI

Critical Thinking
Out of the Wreckage

A new politics for an age of crisis, built on community and belonging.

George Monbiot

Educational
Pleasure Activism

On reclaiming pleasure, desire and joy as political and healing practice.

adrienne maree brown

Critical Thinking
Psychopolitics

Neoliberalism and new technologies of power.

Byung-Chul Han

Educational
Radical Ecopsychology

Psychology in the service of life, and our relationship with the living world.

Andy Fisher

Educational
Rest Is Resistance

Freeing yourself from grind culture and reclaiming your life.

Tricia Hersey

Couples
Seven Research-Based Principles for Making Marriage Work

An overview of Gottman's seven principles for building a lasting partnership.

PsychCentral

Youth & Family
Teens: When Your Parent Has Cancer

A booklet for teenagers navigating a parent's cancer diagnosis.

National Cancer Institute

Critical Thinking
The Anti-Aesthetic

Essays on postmodern culture and the politics of art.

Hal Foster

Critical Thinking
The Archaeology of Knowledge

On how knowledge, discourse and power are constructed.

Michel Foucault

Educational
The Deepest Well

On childhood adversity and its long-term effects on health.

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Critical Thinking
The Great Refusal

On resistance, liberation and refusing the terms we are given.

Herbert Marcuse

Educational
The Myth of Normal

On trauma, illness and healing in a culture that normalises what harms us.

Dr. Gabor Maté

Educational
The Pain We Carry

Healing from complex PTSD for people of color.

Natalie Gutiérrez

Critical Thinking
The Sane Society

On whether a whole society can be unwell, and what sanity would require.

Erich Fromm

Crisis Support
The Trevor Project

Crisis support for LGBTQIA+ youth. Call 1-866-488-7386.

Trevor Project

Educational
The Wretched of the Earth

A classic analysis of colonialism, violence and the psychology of liberation.

Frantz Fanon

Crisis Support
Thrive Lifeline

Crisis responders offering support, including for queer and neurodivergent folks. Text 313-662-8209.

Thrive Lifeline

Educational
Traditional Medicine in Africa

On indigenous African healing systems and their place alongside Western medicine.

Adeoye Lambo

Crisis Support
Trans Lifeline

Crisis support for trans folks, staffed by trans people. Call 877-565-8860.

Trans Lifeline

Educational
Trauma Healing for Black Women

A guide to recovery written for Black women's specific experiences.

Evelyn M. Thorne

Educational
What My Bones Know

A memoir of healing from complex trauma.

Stephanie Foo

Educational
Writings for a Liberation Psychology

Foundational essays on psychology in service of the oppressed.

Ignacio Martín-Baró

Youth & Family
Youth Mental Health Resources

California health and human services hub for youth mental health support.

California CHHS

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