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Dear Community Members,

Recent high winds have caused multiple wildfires and structural damage in the Los Angeles County area, significantly impacting many communities. We sincerely hope that you are able to stay safe during this challenging time.

As we monitor the state of emergency affecting LA County and its residents, we have encountered some outages with our telehealth system and other online platforms. We will continue to provide services while prioritizing the safety and wellbeing of the community members we serve as well as our staff members.

While we remain open, some of our staff and community members may be in active red zones, as determined by the Los Angeles Fire Department. As the situation continues to evolve rapidly, if your care is affected in any way, we will reach out to provide further information and support.

If you are affected by this emergency, we fully understand and support any need to reschedule your appointments.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we navigate this disaster together. Please stay safe during this challenging time and know that we continue to prioritize your care.

With care,

Wombat Mental Health Services, LCSW PC

 

Resources

St. James Infirmary415-554-8494 is a peer-based non-profit 501(c)3 organization serving Sex Workers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The first occupational health and safety clinic in the U.S. run by Sex Workers for Sex Workers.

 

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City of Angels Two-Spirit Society: Two-Spirit and LGBTQ education, HIV prevention, pow wows, media, medical services, writing circles, and counseling.

Gender Matters Program for Native Youth (GEN-M Native): comprehensive sexual health education program designed for youth 14-18 years old. The goal of Gender Matters is to decrease rates of unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and gender-based violence, by exploring healthy relationships and how inequitable and unhealthy gender norms affect adolescent sexual decision-making.

Stand with Trans Kids: helping trans youth build resilience, gain confidence and find hope for a future filled with joy.

National Center for Transgender Equality: Everything from an introduction to trans folks and the community, knowing your rights, and pathways for name change and other important documents.

Queerdoc: Queer and gender-affirming healthcare services from folx with lived experience.

Trans Latin@ Coalitionhola@translatinacoalition.org (email)

 

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GLAD Greater Los Angeles Agency of the Deaf323-892-2225 (VP) 323-478-8000 (Voice/TTY)

OC Deaf Equal Access Foundation (OC DEAF)714-503-0669 (VP) info@ocdeaf.org (email)

National Association of the Deaf (NAD)301‍-587‍-1788 (Purple/ZVRS) 301‍-328‍-1443 (Sorenson)
301‍-338‍-6380 (Convo) TTY: 301-810-3182

National Center on Deafness (NCOD): 818-677-2054 (Voice/TTY) 818-435-3825(VP)
ncod@csun.edu (email) Walk-In Hours Monday-Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Online College Guide for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

 

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TAY Penny Lane Drop In Center in LA

211- LA Information Hotline: 211 LA is a locally based, nonprofit guide to the services & information you need to navigate life in Los Angeles.

Homeboy Industries323-526-1254 then PRESS 2: From tattoo removal, educational assistance, and mental health services, Homebody’s mission is to provide the vital resources needed for formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women. 130 W. Bruno St., Los Angeles, CA 30019. Open M-F, 8:30-4:30pm.

Prisons to PhD Mentorship Programinfo@prisontopro.org (email)

 

Indigenous Resources

AICC American Indian Counseling Center: – LA County Contact: aicclacommunity@gmail.com

South Sound Street Medics – Set Chas. (Olympia, Wa) is an indigenous led street medic organization that provides care to underserved communities and organizations promoting social justice, earth justice and tribal sovereignty movements. They do this through direct action support, community care, gathering traditional medicine plants and needed supplies and providing resistance camp support. Contact: sgt9123@aol.com

Red Sleeves Mutual Aid – Diné, Tiwa, and Apache Homelands build solidarity with unsheltered refugees of settler colonialism in occupied northern New Mexico. Distribute personal hygiene kits, handwashing stations, showers, hand sanitizer, masks, food, water, sleeping gear, clothing, temporary shelter, cooling/heating relief, and first aid. Contact: redsleevesmutualaid@pm.me

Desert Indigenous Collective – Akimel O’odham and the Xalychidom Piipaash (occupied Phoenix, AZ) In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, the group is currently setting up a mutual aid network to assist communities at the greatest risk of the virus which would include Elderly, Houseless, Immunocompromised, and Marginalized communities. Contact: desert.indigenous.collective@gmail.com

Frontline Medics – Occupied Tongva, Chumash & O’odham territory. Are an Indigenous led network of medically trained women of color from across Turtle Island committed to providing care for our communities of resistance with aid and support. Contact: wocfrontlinemedics@gmail.com

Sin Fronteras 1312 – Memories of El Monte Community Arts and Mutual Aid – Houtngna, the place of the willow, Tonga territory (10908 Garvey Ave. El Monte, California 91733. Free food, water, clothes, ppe, a/c, wifi, printing. music lessons, support circles, prisoner writing sessions, food sovereignty workshops, popular education and more. Open Wednesday-Saturday 2-8p. FTP 24/7.

Para Todus Hit – Guam/Guahan – Marianas Islands/Laguas Yan Gani –
Para Todus Hit is a small collective of indigenous CHamoru, Palauan, and other allies residing in the occupied territory of Guahan. The vision is simply stated in the phrase “Chenchule’ Not Charity,” referring to the deeply rooted CHamoru practice of chenchule’, or reciprocal giving and community care. Contact: para.todus.hit@gmail.com

Kinłani/Flagstaff Mutual Aid – Occupied Kinłani (so-called “Flagstaff, Arizona” and Northern “Arizona”) – Contact: kinlanimutualaid@protonmail.com

Defend Our Community – Dinétah (Leupp area so-called “Arizona”) – Contact: tlwhitehairaz@gmail.com | (928) 606-1857 | paypal: paypal.me/tlwhitehair

Chi-Nations Youth Council – Zhigaagoong (Chicago, Illinois) – Chi-Nations Youth Council has been working with growing their own food and medicine for the past 7 years. Last year they have received access to a large piece of land we envisioned creating a healing space for Native community to reconnect to our plant medicine and our food. They started remediating the soil, built garden boxes, built a wigwam and firepit. Contact: chinationsyouthcouncil@gmail.com | (773) 632-6401

Ké’ Infoshop – Dinétah (Navajo Nation – Ft. Defiance, Window Rock area)

  • feeding the unsheltered (so-called homeless) every Saturday morning
  • hosting talking-circles for LGBTQ2i+ or gender non-conforming relatives
  • food banking with cooking classes using organic ingredients
  • workshops on indigenous feminism and decolonial socialism
  • building a public library supporting radical indigenous discourse
  • providing free secure internet access and information security training
  • and anything else to engage our relatives in a healthy manner to critically analyze our current situation as Diné (Navajo)

Diné Land & Water – Dinétah (so-called “Sanders, Arizona” and “Gallup, New Mexico” areas). Dine’ Land and Water has been using its limited resources to find the products to create home made alcohol hand sanitizers, disinfectant sprays, gloves and home made face masks with filters. Contact: wolfman7202000@yahoo.com

Mothers Against Meth Alliance – Pine Ridge, occupied “South Dakota”. The mission of the Mothers Against Meth Alliance (M.A.M.A) is to provide competent and compassionate advocacy, community action, media outreach, drug education, and provide rehabilitation resources that reflect the traditions and customs of the Lakota Nakota, and Dakota people for all those affected by Methamphetamine addiction, their families, and their communities. Contact: julzzzzrich@gmail.com

Protect Native Elders – Dinétah (Navajo Nation – Northern Area)

Alianza Migrante – Ysleta del Sur Pueblo/ Raramuri (Occupied El Paso / Ciudad Juarez) – Indigenous and Migrant led mutual aid and direct action collective dedicated to providing direct support and resources to our community on both sides of the so called Ciudad Juarez, Mexico / El Paso, Texas border. Contact: borderresistance@riseup.net

Cocopah Quechan Mutual Aid – Location: Occupied Sonora, Baja California, California, and Arizona. Operations based in Yuma, Arizona – Are an all-volunteer grassroots indigenous led group operating on Quechan and Cocopah lands regardless of borders. Contact: cocopahquechanaid@protonmail.com

 

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Alcoholics Anonymous | 212-870-3023

CA Dept. of Rehabilitation: | 916-324-1313 / 800-952-5544 / 844-729-2800 (TTY)

CDC National HIV & AIDS Hotline : 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636) | 1-888-232-6348 TTY
In English, en Español, 8 am to 8 pm EST, Monday through Friday

1-800-HIV-0440 (448-0440) | 1-888-480-3739 TTY

PrEP Hotline: provides expert guidance on considerations for providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to people who don’t have HIV as part of an HIV prevention program.
1-855-448-7737 | 9 am to 8 pm EST, Monday through Friday

California – Safer Drug Consumption Services (SCS): designated sites where people can use drugs under the safety and supervision of trained personnel.

National Harm Reduction Coalition: Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm Reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs.

Overdose Prevention Basics

Fentanyl Test Strip Pilot

North American Syringe Exchange Network (NASEM)253-272-4857 | support unrestricted access to the tools and information drug users need to make healthier choices. Promoting the non-judgmental acceptance of drug users.

NEXT Distro: Stay Alive, Stay Safe: An online and mail-based harm reduction service designed to reduce opioid overdose death, prevent injection-related disease transmission, and improve the lives of people who use drugs.

The Recovery Village: 1-866-425-5431

 

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National Domestic Violence Hotline800-799-7233

Community Violence Solutions’ Rape Crisis Center800-670-7273
Alternatives 988 Suicide Hotline without risks of police involvement, involuntary treatment at emergency rooms or psychiatric hospitals, and the emotional and financial toll of those experiences.

BlackLine: is a hotline geared toward the Black, Black LGBTQ+, brown, Native, and Muslim communities

Kiva Centers: offers daily online peer support groups

M.H. First Oakland and M.H. First Sacramento: operate during select weekend hours in the California cities of Oakland and Sacramento

Peer Support Space: hosts virtual peer support groups twice a day Monday through Saturday

Project LETS: provides support by text for urgent issues that involve involuntary hospitalization

Samaritans of New York: is a hotline based in New York City

Trans Lifeline: is a hotline for trans and questioning individuals 877-565-8860 (US) 877-330-6366 (CANADA)

Wildflower Alliance: has a peer support line and online support groups focused on suicide prevention

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