The mission of Deconstructing the Mental Health System Inc, (DMHS) is to achieve an equitable, anti-racist Mental Health System, through acknowledging how intersectionality and racism impacts any system affiliated with the current Mental Health System. We effect changes and build equity into the Mental Health System through collaboration with community partners in delivery of therapy & wellness services, working towards making access to maintaining licensure status more financially equitable (access to free advertisement, supervision and marketing), providing direct services to our communities for more effective and equitable therapy & wellness delivery. We also provide education to the community on implicit bias, reducing harm to our communities, providing culturally relevant & equitable services, and community healing.
Deconstructing the Mental Health System is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization status and donations are tax deductible.
Makinie Fortino founded Deconstructing the Mental Health System in 2020, as a means to bring anti-racist therapists & wellness practitioners together to address the mental health system’s racial and financial inequities, through education and other initiatives, such as our Free Therapy & Wellness Program and a Free Directory for Therapists & Wellness Professionals who identify as People of the global Majority.
Feeling whole is our birthright, and we are claiming it.
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