Healing on the Half Shell

Friends, survivors, and allies!

We're happy to announce our first official partner in creating greater access to BIPOC survivors to receive culturally responsive and trauma informed care with BIPOC providers.

APDC provides robust services to victims of crime, mental health support, immigration assistance, and more. Healing on the Half Shell is grateful to their team as they support their community, especially in light of the recent attacks on Asian American, Pacific Islander, and migrant communities of Asian Descent.

Their behavioral health clinic has been in operation since 1980 and has always operated on a model of serving communities from within. The majority of their staff identify as multicultural and multilingual, and they hire leaders from within communities reporting high needs, to serve as community navigators and cultural brokers. All of their clinical work is trauma-informed and culturally-adapted to meet the varied needs of their clients, who are often unable to receive culturally appropriate services elsewhere.

Thank you for all you do to support survivors!

Blooming Cacti 🌵

Power and control are at the center of domestic and sexual violence, and often co-occur. So often we expect survivors to fit into neat boxes. Sexual assault? Call your local r**e crisis hotline. Domestic Violence? Seek domestic violence counseling. Was identity abuse at play? Head over to the nearest culturally responsive resource (if one exists in your area).

Survivors are complex, multilayered folks with experience, skills and knowledge within and outside their survivorship. We need to start prioritizing services that are equipped to support all survivors in their fullness, not exclusively in response to their trauma experience(s).

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Image 1: 11 oyster shells with inner shells designed with a light pink background and cacti Blooming with purple, pale yellow, pink, and blue flowers 🌻

Image 2: 11 oyster shells (outer shell) in a variety of metallic colors.

@ Denver, Colorado

PLANT ROULETTE 🌱🌿🌵

Did you know that sexual violence is most often perpetrated by someone that a survivor knows?

And maybe more importantly, do you know the single best way to reduce PTSD after an assault? Believing survivors. Literally nothing else.

DM us if one of these plant cuties catch your eye 🥰 I'd love to send you one (or more) as a thank you for donating to our cause! Pairing survivors of domestic and sexual violence who also identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with therapists and healers withing these identities.

With culturally responsive and trauma informed care, we can begin breaking the cycles of violence that impact all of us - because statistics show that ALL of us know (and likely love) survivors.

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Image 1: 3 rows of 6 oyster outer shells in a variety of metallic paints.

Image 2: 3 rows of 6.oyster inner shells designed with green leaves, plants and ferns in a variety of shapes and colors on a white background