10/10/2025
At Social Roots Foundation, we believe healing begins when community members become caretakers, leaders, and change agents. 🌱
That’s why:
1. Representation matters. 👩🏽💼
When Black and Native women see themselves in mental health professionals, it opens doors to trust, connection, and culturally informed care.
2. We reduce barriers to entry.💰
Financial challenges, systemic bias, and lack of mentorship are real obstacles. Our scholarship fund helps offset those burdens so more women of color can enter mental health fields.
3. Programming Matters. 👩🏽🏫
Ms. Attitude, our leadership and wellness program empowers women to use their voices, their stories, and their experiences to educate, advocate, and lead in mental health.
Over time, we hope Ms. Attitude alumni and SRF Scholars will become clinicians, counselors, community mental health advocates, researchers, and policy leaders — folks who know firsthand what it means to carry both the pain and the hope of their communities.
4. We aim for equity — not charity.✨
It’s not enough to offer occasional services. True justice is shifting systems so that marginalized communities have more pathways into influence, decision-making, and care than barriers holding them back!
A Call to Action (for Today & Every Day) 🌍
• Let’s talk about mental health openly. Stigma is still real, especially in communities of color.
• Support Black, Indigenous, and women-of-color–led mental health organizations. Because transforming care requires shifting power.
• Mentor, sponsor, and invest in women of color pursuing mental health careers.
• Advocate for structural change — better funding for mental health, culturally competent training, and equitable access to services.
Sending love and light,
The Social Roots Foundation Team