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This circle is only open to youth ages 14-19 who live in NYC. You do not need to be a current student to attend. If you have any questions, you can reach out to Heena at heena@projectlets.org or text/call at (347) 454-2750. You can also email Heena your responses if that is more accessible!

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Help shape our peer support youth programming by sharing your thoughts on: 🗣️What mental health topics are important to you? 🗣️What peer support skills do you want to build? 🗣️How do you want to be in community with your peers?

Your feedback will inform updates to our 8-week peer support training cohort for high schoolers that was first piloted in 2024. We are planning on launching two in–person cohorts this fall, one in NYC and one in Providence, RI. Stay tuned for updates! Register by May 7th at bit.ly/letscircle-nyc

Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

📢 Calling all NYC youth ages 14-19! We want to hear from you about what you want to see in our mental health & peer support youth programs. Join us for a virtual listening circle: 📅 Wednesday, May 13th 6-7:30pm EST - On zoom $50 stipend Limited seats! Register at bit.ly/letscircle-nyc by May 7 🌿

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‼️ URGENT‼️ request for community support! A Black, Disabled Comrade in NYC is facing an immediate threat of homelessness. $1200 is needed TODAY to secure their housing and give them room to breathe. Venmo & Cashapp: strawb3rrym00n Use the purple heart emoji (💜) on the note. Please share & donate!!

Flyer with text overlaid on a notebook page. Up top highlighted "URGENT" with "request for community support!" Underneath, black text: "A Black, Disabled Comrade in NYC is facing an immediate threat of homelessness. The constant stress of housing instability is taking a heavy toll on top of autistic burnout, survivorhood, and deep grief. They are doing everything they can to build a stable, self-determined life, but no one can do it alone. Let's wrap them in community care." Highlighted in yellow: "$1200 is needed TODAY to secure their housing and give them room to breathe." On the bottom right: "Venmo & Cashapp: strawb3rrym00n Use the purple heart emoji (💜) on the note."

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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

👉🏽 Black neurodivergent & disabled comrade in NYC urgently needs community support to survive unsafe living conditions. They are under-resourced, under-supported, & housing insecure. They are in need of SUSTAINED covid cautious in-person support & financial support. DM if you can plug in!

portrait style graphic text post with a light pink background overlayed on a background of bright pink flowers. Text reads: “Mutual aid request. Black neurodivergent & disabled comrade in NYC urgently needs community support to survive unsafe living conditions. They are under-resourced, under-supported, and experiencing housing instability. All of this has taken a major toll on their mental health on top of ongoing autistic burnout and grieving. In-person support: If you’re in NYC and can offer SUSTAINED covid cautious in-person support, please DM @m00nglades to get connected. Financial support initial goal: $3000. Venmo & Cashapp: strawb3rrym00n. Use a Purple Heart emoji as note.

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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

👉🏽 X-Savior is a Black trans femme abuse surviver seeking ongoing support for housing, food, & phone costs. Support has stalled and she's at repeated risk of losing her hotel room just as hurricane season is picking up. Still seeking solo rental leads and in-person support in NC - please DM !

portrait oriented text post with a blurry color field background in magenta, purple, peach, teal, chartreuse, and cream, with some abstract shapes resembling a lava lamp. Text on the graphic in scattered text boxes reads : X-Savior is a Black trans femme abuse surviver seeking ongoing support for housing, food, and phone costs. Support has stalled and she's at repeated risk of losing her hotel room just as hurricane season is picking up. Still seeking solo rental leads and in-person support in NC - please DM ! X-Savior NEEDS stable and safe housing of her own ASAP. PP: xthomas688, CA: thehumanpro, vnmo: footlucid (Reba Neh).

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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

❤️‍🩹 Below are time sensitive fundraisers for community members our PSAs are currently supporting. 👉🏽 Mohagany is a trans woman of color who was recently released from a men’s prison & is still assisting other incarcerated trans women while facing transphobic barriers for her own reentry.

portrait style graphic text post with a blurred bright marigold yellow, orange, and red background. Text reads : Support for Mohagany. Mohagany signed a lease for her new house this past week!!! She needs continued support for rent and other costs of living. Please continue sharing her GoFundMe and pay links. GFM : bit.ly/3UVxuy, CA : tsmohagany, vnmo : MohaganyRegina [end text]. To the left of the graphic is a photograph of Mohagany posing inside of her new apartment with white walls behind her and light wooden floors. She's holding up her new keys and beaming at the camera.

portrait style graphic text post with a blurred bright marigold yellow, orange, and red background. Text reads : Mohagany needs household items and supplies for her new home! Please visit bit.ly/wishlist4mohagany to purchase items directly, or donate funds using the links below. GFM : bit.ly/3UVxuy, CA : tsmohagany, vnmo : MohaganyRegina [end text]. Centered on the graphic is a photograph of Mohagany posing inside of her new apartment with a white door and light wooden floors. She's holding up a peace sign and beaming at the camera. Mohagany is wearing a cream maxi dress with short ruffled sleeves and pink, orange and yellow flowers scattered across the surface, large gold hoop earrings, a few gold bangles on both wrists, and black sandals.

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Access Information: 🌱 A recording will be made available. 🌱 ASL interpretation will be made available. 🌱 You can share additional access needs via your registration form or by emailing support[at]projectlets[dot]org. REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action

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Donation Info: 💸 Our suggested donation for community members is $20-$40, & $30-$50 for mental health workers. 💸 You can donate more or less the suggested amounts. 💸 Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. If you cannot donate, use our Free Access form. REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action

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What to expect from our panel discussion of Peer Support Advocates (PSAs): 🌿concrete examples of resistance, connection, & advocacy to take back & recreate in your own communities 🌿practical skills & wisdom gathered by those who break down & traverse carceral walls REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action

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We speak of non-carceral care in our dreams of a more liberatory approach to mental health and crisis response, but what does that really look like in practice? What does an abolitionist care praxis look like on the ground and in our communities? #abolition #mentalhealth #peersupport #carework

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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Join Project LETS on Sunday Sept 21st @ 1PM ET (10AM PST) for an online panel discussion on Abolitionist Care Work in Action!❤️‍🔥 Hear from our Peer Support Advocates on what non-pathologizing, holistic care work looks like — outside of carceral frameworks & systems. REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action 🌀

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Houseless folks, institutionalized people, & those in carceral mental health settings are often denied AC, water, or the right to leave overheated environments. Extreme heat isn't just a medical issue. It's an abolitionist issue.🌿 #PsychAbolition #PsychMeds #DisabilityJustice #MutualAid

If you or someone you love is on psych meds:
Drink water before you’re thirsty;
Avoid direct sun during peak hours;
Seek shade, AC, cooling centers, or even just wet towels/fans;
Check in on others who might not know they’re at risk;
If you’re tapering or coming off meds, do so with care & support;
Mutual aid saves lives. Systems don’t.

Accessible ways of staying cool:
Use wet washcloths or cool packs (frozen veggies from the freezer) on your wrists, neck, groin, behind your knees, and under your arms;
Mist your skin with a spray bottle and sit near a fan;
Take a sponge bath with lukewarm water while seated or lying down;
If drinking water is hard, try: ice chips, fruits like melons or cucumbers, herbal teas, broths, or electrolyte powders in water;
Keep your space cooler by blocking sunlight (blackout curtains, aluminum foil, cardboard boxes);
Hang a damp sheet in front of a fan;
Stay low (since heat rises);
Avoid layers and tight clothing

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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

☀️🔥Extreme heat & psych meds: Did you know that psychiatric meds can impair the body’s ability to sweat, regulate temperature, or sense thirst? 🧊 As temps rise, folks on psych meds are at higher risk of heat stroke, dehydration, & medical crises. #PsychAbolition #ExtremeHeat #PsychMeds #MutualAid

Psychiatric meds can impair the body's ability to sweat, regulate temperature, or sense thirst. As temperatures rise, folks on psychiatric medications are at higher risk of heat stroke, dehydration, and medical crises-- especially antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and some antidepressants.

This isn’t just a medical issue. It’s an abolitionist issue.

Houseless folks, institutionalized people, and those in carceral mental health settings are often denied AC, water, or the right to leave overheated environments.

Many are forced onto meds without (informed) consent or support to taper safely.

Extreme weather is yet another way systemic neglect becomes lethal.

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Access information: 🌿A recording will be made available (you can also register just to receive the recording). 🌿ASL interpretation will be available. 🌿You can share additional access needs via your registration form or by emailing support@projectlets.org. Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism

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Donation info: 🌻Our suggested donation for community members is: $20-$40, $30-50 for mental health workers. 🌻You can choose how much to donate- more, or less. 🌻Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. If you cannot donate at all, use our Free Access form. Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism

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This panel is a fundraiser for serenus herbs & moonpence farm, 50% of all proceeds will go towards sustaining their farm. The panel is also an intro to an upcoming course/series for Project LETS titled “Madness, Disability, & Herbalism: Plant Magic & Allies for Reclaiming Ancestral Healing.”

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What to expect: 🌱Discussions on how to build relationships with herbal allies for emotional, spiritual, & physical support 🌱Practical insights into working with herbs while navigating medications & other modalities 🌱Stories of resistance, healing, & reconnection from herbalists & practitioners

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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🌿Join Project LETS & community herbalists/folks with lived experience for a virtual panel discussion on the intersections of Madness, disability, & herbal medicine through a lens of liberation, kinship, & ancestral reclamation. June 20ᵗʰ @ 1:30pm ET ASL Interpretation Register bit.ly/lets-herbalism

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To fill out a support request form, visit bit.ly/projectlets-support or use our QR code. This form is encrypted. We are a small team & getting you connected may take a few days. If you need to submit through an alternative method, you may send a video, audio file, or PDF to support@projectlets.org

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