Help Us Inspire a Mental Health Renaissance

Since RefuSHE’s inception, we’ve been committed to providing young refugee women with essential trauma-informed care.

The abrupt closure of RefuSHE’s education campus and Artisan Collective workshop in 2020 disrupted the stable routines we tirelessly strive to provide for our program participants. These sudden changes exacerbated the mental health vulnerabilities of the girls in our care, many of whom experienced complex trauma and immense instability before arriving at RefuSHE.

While we’ve always offered individual and group counseling, the global COVID-19 pandemic exposed our need to provide a set of deeper, more comprehensive mental health care services.

Today, we are poised to deepen and improve the mental health care we offer our community of refugee girls and young women.

But we need your help.

Our goal is to raise $150,000 in support of new mental health initiatives by International Youth Day (August 12, 2021).

$150,000 will help us deepen our mental health services and build our capacity to explore neuroscience-backed interventions and education. We plan to add additional body-based therapies like yoga and Zumba to our core mental health programming, as well as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a psychotherapy treatment proven successful in addressing complex trauma.

The girls and young women in our care have experienced unimaginable trauma. Help us provide them with the highly specialized and tailored support they need to heal.