Whether you’re navigating a difficult moment, seeking identity-affirming support, or looking for trusted tools to deepen your healing, we hope this resource page is helpful. We’ve curated these resources with care, centering safety, inclusivity, and accessibility. These links are not a substitute for therapy, but they can offer guidance, connection, and grounding along the way.
We created this self assessment to help people learn how and where they carry stress. While not diagnostic, your results may tell you what level of support your nervous system currently needs to heal.
Blackline: Peer support and counseling prioritizing BIPOC, with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. Interventions do not occur without consent.
Trans Lifeline: Peer support for the trans community that’s always been divested from police. Run by and for trans people.
Trevor Hotline: Call, text or live chat support for LGBTQIA youth. Emergency services may be called in cases of imminent risk.
Wildflower Alliance: Warmline answered by a trained peer supporters. Interventions do not occur without consent.
Don’t Call The Police: Community based alternatives to calling the police in various cities across the United States- including Chicago.
National Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum-Chicago Chapter
In case of emergency, please call 911. You can also call or text 988, or reach out to any of the hotlines listed under our resources page for support.