Courageous Healing receives grant from the PHP Foundation for $5,000

May 3, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: (260)255-3514 or barbara@courageoushealing.org

Courageous Healing is pleased to announce it has received a grant in the amount of $5,000 grant from the PHP Foundation. The PHP Foundation Board of Directors recognizes Courageous Healing’s effort to help build healthier communities by addressing the health and wellness needs of low-income, high-risk individuals in Northern Indiana. The grant funds will support Courageous Healing's clinical program, supportive services, and overall mission to deliver culturally centered, trauma-informed, accessible mental health care in an authentic and safe environment.

Courageous Healing prides itself on being rooted in five main pillars. These are:

1- Culturally Centered Care

People seek therapy providers with whom they can connect and feel understood - finding them should not be overwhelming. We created a space where clients can receive mental health support from a team with similar and shared life experiences, particularly facing racism, discrimination, and inequities. Our team is culturally responsive and from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to address the complexities of our clients' lives honestly and affirmatively.

2- Trauma-Informed Providers

Trauma can have lasting effects and, when untreated, be passed on to subsequent generations. Black and People of Color share traumatic experiences and histories unique to our underserved groups. The key to delivering trauma-informed care at Courageous Healing lies in recognizing the impact and symptoms of trauma, avoiding retraumatization, and coming alongside our clients as partners rather than authorities in their healing journeys.

3- Accessibility

Upholding health equity is essential to us. Our role in contributing to our community being as healthy as possible is to provide therapy on a sliding fee scale for clients who are uninsured, underinsured, and who demonstrate financial need. We also offer clients the option of engaging in teletherapy or a combination of virtual and in-person sessions when transportation and childcare are barriers to receiving the care they need.

4- Safe Spaces

Humans have an intrinsic need for safety wired into our minds and bodies. Understanding that layout and visual cues play a subconscious role in instilling a sense of safety in us, we designed the spaces at Courageous Healing to convey one message: You are safe, and you belong here. By feeling safe, our social engagement systems enable us to connect openly and share vulnerably, which makes for a better chance of healing.

5- Advocacy

We speak up and fight against the factors contributing to racial disparities in mental health issues amongst Black and Brown people: Systemic racism, income inequities, barriers to quality care, implicit bias, shortage of professionals of color, and more. It starts with believing people's experiences and not making assumptions based on their identity. By making race, cultural identity, and cultural expression central to our messaging, services, and space design, we're committing to building a new model for lasting impact on our community.

Courageous Healing’s mental health practice is culturally centered, conducted on an outpatient basis, and designed to accommodate clients experiencing disruptions in their ability to function daily. Through accessible traditional talk therapy and trauma-based interventions like EMDR, our therapists help clients identify issues that cause emotional distress to improve their quality of life. Our therapists are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and equipped to help clients navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, depression, addictions, eating, sleeping, trauma, anger, family conflicts, grief, self-esteem, and more.

Thank you, PHP Foundation, for helping us continue to build on our pillars and supporting our mission to deliver culturally centered, trauma-informed, accessible mental health care in an authentic and safe environment.

For more information, please contact Courageous Healing at (260)255-3514 or barbara@courageoushealing.org.