Cultivating a Community-Centered Ecosystem for Behavioral and Mental Health Care Project

The mission of Puentes de Salud is two-fold: First, to partner with local Latinx immigrant communities to build long-term prosperity by addressing immediate education, health, and social service needs. Second, to create a responsible learning environment for future generations of artists, advocates, educators, and healthcare providers to examine social justice and structural violence and to explore their impacts on the social determinants of health within a marginalized community.

Funding from the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness will support:

• Sustaining therapeutic support offered through linguistically and culturally competent mental health treatment providers,
• Empowering community leaders through their promatora program, and
• Expanding peer support groups to build community and bring about collective healing.