🧡 MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people with experience of mental health issues 🧡

➥ https://mindout.org.uk
➥ https://twitter.com/MindOutLGBTQ

🧡 MindOut works to improve the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ communities and to make mental health a community concern 🧡

MindOut's does this by:

• Listening to and responding to the LGBTQ experience of mental health
• Offering hope through positive relationships and professional expertise
• Preventing isolation,  crisis and suicidal distress in LGBTQ communities
• Providing safe spaces for people to meet and support each other
• Helping people protect their rights and get their voices heard
• Campaigning and creating conversations  about LGBTQ mental health throughout the world

MindOut is needed because LGBTQ people:

• Do not get the support they need for their mental health from mainstream services
• Often feel isolated from LGBTQ communities
• Face additional discrimination, exclusion, and minority stress
• Deserve a space where their identities are recognised and understood

• £10 will fund one counselling session with an LGBTQ counsellor
• £15 will give someone in suicidal distress an hour of life-saving crisis support.
• £25 will enable one person to access their counselling service.
• £50 will fund a weekly peer support session for an LGBTQ person with suicidal thoughts.
• £60 will give someone four hours of advocacy.
• £100 will fund the recruitment and training of a new group of volunteers for Online Support Service.