Grants, mutual aid, funding + scholarships
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The term “trans healthcare” might bring to mind hormones and surgery. While those are vital pieces of the puzzle, they’re not everything. Trans patients don’t only need to go to the doctor for reasons related to gender affirmation. Like anyone else, they need primary care throughout their lives.
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The Equitable Care Certification (ECC) is created by sex workers, sex work-affirming therapists and sex working therapists. It is led entirely by QTPOC and sex working therapists: Raquel Savage, Angie Gunn LCSW, CST, CSTS, and Mel Trujillo.
The following directory includes the vetted mental health and healing professionals that have completed the certification. The providers are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. Our Providers speak the following languages:
English
Spanish Español
Mandarin 普通话
Urdu اردو
Korean 한국인
Farsi فارسی
Hindi हिंदी
Cantonese 廣東話
Chinese 中文
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“We support the well-being and success of the trans+ community by distributing funds for healthcare, housing, legal services, & education/professional development for trans+ folks in need.
Our mutual aid model is changing in order to better and more securely serve our community. We will no longer be accepting applications requiring personal information. Instead, we will be donating to gofundme fundraisers, prioritizing those most directly impacted by the new administration.”
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They advocate for everyone to have a safe fair decent accessible home and are run by folks with lived experience of homelessness in some way. They share a compilation of housing resources depending on one’s situation.
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Emergency shelter, housing assistance, and many other basic human/social services are drastically underfunded and are unable to meet the needs of our communities. Below we offer a few tips and resources that may provide you some direction, but we also know that losing our homes is very difficult.To speak with a caring person at any time, call 1-800-Miss-You to reach Miracle Messages, or 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Life Line.”
-from their page
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Many are NY based
“The Okra Project creates initiatives to provide mutual aid and other resources to the Black Trans community. Please check back frequently as we plan to offer one to two programs or initiatives per quarter”
-their blurb on Liberatory Wellness Website
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“Disabled talent is in high demand. abilityJOBS has thousands of great positions posted by employers who are preapproved and committed to hiring people with disabilities.”
-from website
They have a job directory, job seeker services, resources for job seekers, as well as resources for employers hiring disabled folks. Their blog is great. They include a large range of employers for potential jobs so I haven’t personally vetted every employer they include but they do have jobs where the org/manager is intentionally hoping to hire someone who is disabled. I’ve heard positive things as well from folks who’ve gotten jobs from their website.
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A community of disabled and/or neurodivergent folx . There’s a free facebook group for networking as well as a paid membership to connect more in depth.
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Rare Patient Voice Paid Studies
I’ve done this and am impressed with how many studies on rare illnesses/complex diseases they have studies or trials on. They have a lot and the criteria are pretty specific so it can take a long time before you find one that’s the right fit— I do the initial screenings and then see what happens. But I was referred by disability community who spoke highly of doing their surveys.
“Are you a patient or family caregiver with something to say? Make your voice heard by participating in paid surveys, interviews and online communities! Start talking to the right people. It's free! We accept rare and non-rare diagnoses!”
-from their website
Resources for Disabled Folx
Sleepy Girl Guide to Social Security
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Explains how to locate open housing lists nationwide, including tips for increasing your chances of being selected.
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Programs and strategies for getting assistance with repairs, insurance, gas, and other transportation needs.
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State-specific programs offering pet food, vet care, emergency financial aid, and low-cost services.
You can find your own state.
Disabled Artists
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Created as a database for Black Disabled Creatives so artists/directors/project managers can find talented artists to bring onto their next projects. They also have a database of organizations who hire disabled creatives.
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A community of disabled and/or neurodivergent folx . There’s a free facebook group for networking as well as a paid membership to connect more in depth.
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“Ko-fi gives you the tools to earn money directly from the people who love your work.
You can:
Open a shop to sell products
Offer commissions or custom work
Launch memberships with exclusive content”
-from their website
There’s no algorithm and you control all pricing. They promise full control.
I don’t personally have one because I’ve no thad time. I’ve heard really positive things about it keeping control with the artists. I’ll eventually make one once I have spoons.
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They are on hiatus till 2026 but they host a 5 day virtual fair with disabled/chronically ill /ND/ + artists/creators/workshop givers and amplify and center folks who are multiply marginalized. They are run by all chronically ill/disabled/ND/ folks
Disability Rights & Advocacy
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“The American Association of People with Disabilities works to increase the political and economic power of people with disabilities.
As a national disability-led and cross-disability rights organization, AAPD advocates for full civil rights for over 70 million Americans with disabilities. We do this by promoting equal opportunity, economic power, independent living, and political participation.”
-from their website
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“Striving for an America free of discrimination against people with disabilities, where they are valued, integrated members of society with full access to education, homes, health care, jobs, voting, and beyond.”
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“There is a place we go to every time we go to a National Action. It is not a physical place, but rather a place within ourselves where the candle of human dignity burns at its brightest and the pursuit of choice drives us to remarkable outcomes. We access this place all across the country where justice has been denied, and it is within this place where we the people demonstrate our power.
When we arrive at this place, we are fueled in equal parts by love and rage.”-from History page on website
When they started, ADAPT stood for Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit.
If you’d like to learn more about their style of organizing as well as their history, check out these links.
History of ADAPT
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“The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism. ASAN believes that the goal of autism advocacy should be a world in which autistic people enjoy equal access, rights, and opportunities. We work to empower autistic people across the world to take control of our own lives and the future of our common community, and seek to organize the autistic community to ensure our voices are heard in the national conversation about us. Nothing About Us, Without Us!”
-description on website
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Disability Rights California (DRC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 that defends, advances, and strengthens the rights and opportunities of people with disabilities. They provide legal advocacy, investigations, self-advocacy guides, and statewide assistance.
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“We are deaf and disabled people who support deaf/disabled incarcerated people. We believe that prisons should be abolished, even as we fight for the rights and dignity of our community members inside.
We support deaf/disabled individuals to fight for their rights, access emotional and legal support in their language, learn about prison and police abolition, and access financial support while inside and in the crucial months after release..”
-HEARD website
Four categories of the work they do:
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Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
They advocate for basic rights, and work towards access and acountability in all housing, transportation etc
Disability Justice Frameworks
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The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.
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“Mutual aid is “cooperation for the sake of the common good.” It’s getting people to come together to meet each other’s needs, recognizing that as humans, our survival is dependent on one another. “
from mutual aid toolkit on link
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“Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centering and led by disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority, and queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people. “
From website