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Announcing IDHA’s End-of-Year Celebration & Fundraiser

We invite you to join us on Sunday, December 7 for a virtual gathering to honor the practices and relationships that help us show up for one another through cycles of struggle, grief, and transformation.

Mutual aid – people sharing resources to meet immediate needs while building lasting change – reminds us that connection and shared commitment are what enable communities and movements to thrive. This is the heart of transformative mental health: healing ourselves and caring for each other as we work to transform the world around us.

Can’t make it on December 7?

IDHA is a small organization that depends on grassroots support. All donations go directly towards creating more accessible transformative mental health knowledge, and enabling us to share it with the wider public.

Donate to sustain our work

Sunday, December 7 | 3-6:30 pm ET

The event will weave tangible learning and creative practice, guided by the theme of interconnectedness. We root this theme in the work of our keynote speaker, Dean Spade, whose writing and organizing illuminate a core truth: our relationships are what make liberation possible and sustainable. In a time of so many overlapping crises, this is an opportunity to remember and strengthen those ties. Our also program includes:

A panel about community care in times of uncertainty
A transformative mutual aid practices workshop
A member artist showcase
Book + swag giveaway

learn more and get your ticket

Keynote speaker
Dean Spade

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How we work

Training & Education

We offer innovative courses, online and in-person in New York City. Our trainings are led in collaboration by those with professional training and lived experience and cover critical, timely, and socially relevant topics, and allow us to provide the space for communities to connect and share with each other.

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Community Events & Resources

We host community events that foster connection, support, and shared knowledge for peers, clinicians, family members, and all who are interested in shifting the way we practice mental health care. Check out our upcoming workshops and events to see what's going on this month!

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Cross-Movement Organizing

We educate around key issue areas to shed light on the ways in which systems of oppression intersect with mental health; and forge partnerships across movements and disciplines (e.g. disability, racial, environmental justice) to fuel intersectional, cross-movement, and transformative change.

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What are people saying about us?

 
 
 


“One of the best trainings I have ever attended - a heart-centered, empathetic, person-centered space. Phenomenal speakers and topics! All very rich and valuable. Information is dense but presented in a very approachable and relatable way.”
 


“Thank you for such well-rounded, enlightening, and engaging presentations and workshops with such relatable, transparent, and open presenters!"
 


"IDHA makes me feel like there could be a space in the world for someone like me, where I don’t have to hide parts of me...where all are valid and welcome."
 


"I loved how the presenters moved in between structural and individual applications! I learned some tools as a supporter on an individual level but also some food for thought on ways I can contribute to broader changes in the system, or outside of it."
 

“They balance professionalism with humanity”

 
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