I NEED HELP
Legal Help
- Palestine Legal’s Know Your Rights Video Series
- Palestine Legal’s Know Your Rights Student Handbook
- Arab-American Anti-Discrimination League’s ADC: Advocate, Defend, Connect
- National Lawyers Guild Know Your Rights: A Guide for Protestors
- Council on Islamic Relations
- National Lawyers Guild
- Bystander Intervention to Stop Islamophobic and Xenophobic Harassment
- How to Respond to Harassment for People Experiencing Anti-Asian/American Harassment
- Israel’s Unfolding Crime of Genocide– briefing by the Center for Constitutional Rights
- CUNY Know Your Rights
Psychological Help
- Disaster Distress Helpline: call 800-985-5990 to be connected to a trained, caring counselor 24/7
- 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call 988 for free and confidential emotional support
- Free Wellness Apps, such as Calm Ginger and My Strength
- Meditation and Stress Relief apps
- Amaly Psychotherapy Services for residents of California
- Maristan Mental Health Services
- Mental Health Resource for Therapists, Students, and Learners – Inclusive Therapists
- Wafa House for residents of New Jersey
- Red Clinic
Resources for Children
- Talking to children about warNCTSN
- How to talk with your children about conflict and warUNICEF
- Resilience in a time of warAmerican Psychological Association
- Talking to your kids about warVery Well Family
I WANT TO HELP
Psychological Help
- Arab Mental Health Providers Community
- Support group for Southwest Asian & North African Women Diaspora in PA, NJ, DE, and FL. Click here.
- A Decolonial Health Guide for Palestinian Community Health Workers.
- Guidelines for Working with Arab/MENA Students
- Pro-bono Providers for Palestine
Get Involved
Join the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network mailing list
As we see it, the principle of justice is the core of mental health. This is true regarding what is happening in Palestine and it is true everywhere. “Coping” with injustice means first understanding it, and then taking responsible action to address it. Our potential for mental well-being is undermined by our ignorance, powerlessness, and passivity in the face of injustice. But through our empathy with human beings who are being destroyed, humiliated, injured, and killed, we have the opportunity to participate in the restoration of their human dignity.
Our demand that the perpetrators of injustice be accountable likewise helps to restore the human dignity of the perpetrators; only through the perpetrators’ accepting responsibility for their collaboration with injustice can this be accomplished. As witnesses, we must be mindful of our obligation to understand more deeply what we witness–in all of its causes and its implications–and to act wisely on behalf of the powerless. Sustaining our mental health is thus mostly a collective endeavor and one that involves active thinking, learning, and doing.
USA-Palestine Mental Health Network Statement on the Genocide in Gaza
A letter to mental health professionals in Gaza, Palestine
