RE:CLAIMING OUR HEALTH
The Youth Care Clinic is a youth-led peer mentoring space committed to being a vital lifeline for other young people experiencing moments of crisis. They offer understanding and guidance without judgement in a safe environment. The YCC not only addresses immediate basic needs, but commits to long-lasting relationships for mutual personal growth.
RE:Frame is cultivating and sharing more compassionate practices for holding young people. By judgement-free listening and asking questions, rather than giving opinions, the YCC cultivates a space for young people to control their lives, set goals, take actions that align with their values and aspirations, and build courage to embrace change.
PEER NAVIGATORS
Navigators are trained young leaders 16-24 years old who co-create a plan to support your mental health and living conditions. Navigators are dedicated to addressing the erosion of public services by building a network of healthy community partners for needed material resources, mental health support, trauma recovery, and legal resources.
Service Option 1: Immediate Resources
Service Option 2: Mental Health Checkups
Service Option 3: Long-Term Mentorship
Immediate Resource Support: helping find and navigate community resources and professional services that are positive and safe. Navigators don’t just give you the website or phone number, they often make the calls with you, support you through the process, and support you with transportation.
Similar to Arizona’s teen-to-teen crisis hotline, the YCC team offers in-person and virtual checkins for teens and young adults that need to vent, discuss problems, or share their feelings.
Long-term Mentorship: There are many Adult/Youth mentoring programs, but the YCC offers unique Youth/Youth mentoring. YCC Peer Mentors are trained to be judgement free listeners that can relate more effectively to the concerns of fellow teens and young adults.
Service Option 4: Conflict Meditation
YCC team members are trained in Restorative Justice, offering healing circles and mediations for youth,and their friends, their guardians, social workers, and other organizations.
Service Option 5: System-Involved Care
The Clinic partners with schools, group homes, social workers, and other facilities to offer restorative justice circles rather than police involvement. Navigators sit alongside youth in and outside the court rooms to ensure their voice in represented and their transition back home is held with care.
Healing with Homies peer support healing circles, and uses trauma-informed creative engagements (gardening, exercise clubs, cooking, visual arts, music, poetry, and more) to facilitate healing in a collective, peer-driven environment.
Check the Current Happenings Calendar to see what Healing with Homies activities are happening on Clinic Days. You can also partner to bring these engagements to your group homes, schools, or organizations.
HEALING WITH HOMIES
To access Clinic Resources, Book a personal appointment to see a Youth Peer Navigator
CLOTHING CLOSET
The Clothing Closet is filled with donated clothes, shoes, jewelry to support dress up and dress down occasions for young people.
The Clothing Closet does not comply to binary gender norms. We hope you choose your own adventure to be authentically you!
HEALING KITCHEN NOURISHMENT CARE
The Care Clinic works use food as medicine and healing. We emphasize the importance of integrating cultural identity with nutritious food access, encouraging the connection with our heritage, histories and traditions with pride. If you are in need of grocery support, food box drop off, learning new recipes, let us know.
We believe in your right to pleasure and teaching how to do so safely. Clinic Navigators offer 1:1 and group circles around queer sex, hetero sex, dating violence, physically harm recovery. We also have Plans B pills, Condoms and dental dams, Pregnancy test, Ovulation Cycle tests, and Moon cycle menstrual flow pads and tampons.
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE CARE
THE YCC RESOURCE HUB
BODY CARE
The Care Clinic offers Shower with hot water, soap, shampoo, toothbrush, black haircare products, washer and dryer with laundry detergent, lotions, combs. These supplies and more are available to use on our gender-free bathroom, or to take home.
Additional Care
There are so many resources! Here's some more Narcan nasal spray opioid overdose treatment, Bus cards ( daily & weekly ), Art Supplies, Liberation Library Books, and Tools.
ECO-HEALING
The Youth Care Clinic partners with RE:Frame's Environmental Justice Hub to connect youth back to the land. Data shows green spaces reduce anxiety and depression and give youth a renewed sense of purpose.
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ADULT ACCOMPLICES
We are always looking for adults with expertise, community resource organizations, and others whose services validate the voices of young people seeking treatment and care
HEALING JUSTICE COHORT
Offered in the Fall, Spring, and Summer, cohorts are paid training experience for teens 15 - 18 years old or 8th to 12th grade, to learn community health systems, trauma-informed care, and peer support models. Our youth-led curriculum makes shifts away from capitalism and big pharmaceutical companies by focusing on mutual aid, education, and advocacy. We learn alternative and holistic health practices to reduce reliance on western medicine. Cohorts create healing resources at the Clinic as part of their hands-on learning.
HEALING JUSTICE FELLOWS
Offered as 6 month and 12 month paid Fellowships for teens 16-18, and young adults 19 - 21. Fellows work alongside community partners of the Clinic to analyze local and state health systems, contribute to public health plans, and testify at hearings about unmet community needs. Fellows work with policy mentors, health workers, and public officials to propose and advocate for trauma-informed, community-driven health changes. Fellows organize community healing circles, workshops, and resource hubs for schools, health facilities, and group homes.
