Peer Support Spaces

As group solidarity is more important now than ever, peers are coming together to support one another's surviving daily life experiences and challenges, especially along those with marginalized identities:

Fireweed Collective - A support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. Fireweed advances social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation.

Rest for Resistance - Creates healing spaces for LGBTQ2SIA+ individuals, namely queer & trans people of color (QTPoC), as well as other stigmatized groups such as persons with disabilities, sex workers, immigrants, and those living at the intersections of all of the above.

Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective - A national training, movement building, and grant making institution that is dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black and marginalized communities. Virtual Peer support spaces that center Black mental health & healing. 

Project LETS - A national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence. Offering: Peer Support Services, Community education & speaking, LETS Provider Collective, and High School & College Chapters, and more! 

Queer Crescent - Imagines futures where LGBTQIA+ Muslims are building possibilities towards collective liberation. Its work is shaped by resisting gendered violence and islamophobia through cultural organizing, base-building, and defining Muslimness as an expansive, radicalized and self-determined identity. 

Nalgona Positivity Pride by Gloria Lucas - An unconventional eating disorder awareness organization that shines a light on the often-overlooked societal factors that perpetuate unrealistic and oppressive beauty and health standards. NPP offers a vital space for BIPOC individuals to celebrate and embrace their bodies and identities.

Eating Recovery Center - Eating Disorder Support Groups - Offers peer support guided by trained facilitators, including groups specifically for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ persons. Browse ERC’s comprehensive list of weekly support group offerings as well as our time limited support series to find a group that best meets your unique needs.

Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network - Provides community support, and resources for Autistic women, girls, transfeminine and transmasculine nonbinary people, trans people of all genders, Two Spirit people, and all people of marginalized genders or of no gender. AWN is committed to recognizing and celebrating diversity and the many intersectional experiences in this community.

Yarrow Collective - Alternatives to Suicide Online Group - Confidential spaces where people who struggle or have struggled with suicidality can openly talk about their experiences with others who have “been there.” In this peer support space, it is not assumed that you have an illness, do not assess for risk or involuntary intervention, and do not call the police.  An open space to talk about difficult things, share laughs, talk about cats, eat snacks, and go with whatever’s on folxs’ minds.

LGBT+ Life Center - Teaches healthy relationship skills, get support coming out, explore sexual orientation and gender identity, and connect with others. Groups currently meeting are tailored to individuals including those 50+ years-old, ace & aro+, bi/pan+, queer survivors of IPV, men in transition, nonbinary adults, transfemmes, significant others and allies of queer folx, and women living with HIV. 

PFLAG NYC - Offers a variety of support groups for parents, family members, and friends of LGBTQ+ people, and LGBTQ+ individuals are also welcome to attend to strengthen their relationships with loved ones. All PFLAG NYC meetings are offered free of charge and take place virtually via Zoom.