Community
Advocacy
Here, you’ll find local organizations offering resources, information, and opportunities to get involved in advocating for improved mental health policies, services, and support.
Keep the Promise Coalition
Keep The Promise Coalition (KTP) is a grassroots group in Connecticut working to change the mental health system. They focus on peer-led, trauma-informed, and voluntary support, pushing back against forced treatment and promoting community-based options like peer-run respite centers. KTP fights for policy changes, shares education, and organizes with the belief that people with lived experience should have a say—“Nothing about us without us.”
Advocacy Unlimited
Advocacy Unlimited is a peer-run group in Connecticut that supports mental health recovery through lived experience. They offer programs like Recovery Support Specialist training, Join Rise Be for young adults, the Hearing Voices Network, and Toivo, a holistic wellness center. Everything they do is non-clinical and trauma-informed, focusing on letting people define healing for themselves. They also run a daily Young Adult Warmline, offering peer support from noon to 9 p.m.
Health Equity Solutions
Health Equity Solutions (HES) works to make sure everyone in Connecticut has a fair shot at good health. They push for anti-racist policies, team up with communities, and train others to help tackle health gaps. Through events like Health Equity Week and advocacy at the Capitol, they’re working to change systems so all people can get the care they need.
NAMI CT
NAMI Connecticut is a grassroots group that supports people affected by mental health conditions through education, advocacy, and community programs. They push for better mental health policies and teach people how to share their stories to create change. By working with partners and organizing locally, they make sure real voices are heard in decisions that matter.
FAVOR
FAVOR Connecticut works to empower families as advocates for their children’s mental health and well-being. They participate in state councils and collaborate with local groups to shape policies and services for kids with emotional challenges. By speaking up and working together, FAVOR CT ensures families have a say in creating better support systems across the state.
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