864PRIDE
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Mission Statement
To enhance access and reduce barriers to life saving and identity affirming services for the LGBTQ+ community in the Upstate of South Carolina.
About This Cause
864Pride is a clinical non-profit focused on impacting the culture and environmental landscape of the LGBTQ+ community in Upstate SC, through addressing the disparities in medical and mental health care for the LGBTQ+ community. Our vision is to support and enhance a community in Upstate SC where LGBTQ+ children, adults, couples and families feel safe knowing they will have access to competent and inclusive medical and wellness services. We will achieve our mission by identifying, implementing and creating the needed evidence-based programs in collaboration with other LGBTQ+ affirming community partners and providers. 864Pride has three primary initiatives: 1. To create and sustain mental health services that don’t exist for LGBTQ+ individuals 2. To provide funding for LGBTQ+ folks to gain access to medical and mental health care 3. To increase affirmative providers through training. We aim to carry out these initiatives with the following programs: - LEAP (Lead, Empower, Advocate, Protect): LEAP brings therapeutic peer support services to the LGBTQ+ community by connecting trans folks with trained peer support specialists during their transition process. Specialists are able to draw from their own lived experiences to provide support, connection, and education along the path to successful transitioning. - Scholarship Program: We imagine a world where finances are not an obstacle to life saving interventions. Specific funds are secured for scholarships to provide financial aid for mental health therapy, medical visits for hormones, prescriptions, and medical procedures. - Training Program: We believe in supporting and nurturing safe spaces for professionals within and outside the health and human services field to learn and grow in their understanding of cultural competency, diversity, and inclusivity. We provide tailored LGBTQ+ training, education and consultation to mental health/medical providers, nonprofit organizations, schools, churches, and local businesses/companies. - Bloom (Building LGBTQ+ Affirming Organizations and Opening Minds): Bloom is a youth and young adult program focused on LGBTQ+ cultural competence training with school personnel/counselors and other adolescent mental health providers. Priority is also placed on direct clinical services including group, individual, and family therapy to LGBTQ+ youth and their families who are unable to afford the costs of affirming therapy due to financial limitations.