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Behavioral Health Network, Inc. is a growing non-profit community behavioral health agency that has been providing services to children and families in Western Mass since 1938. As a comprehensive service system, with a focus on delivering professional services to those with mental illness, substance use disorders or intellectual disabilities, BHN`s funding sources are diverse. BHN holds contracts with the Departments of Mental Health, Public Health, Developmental Disabilities, Youth Services, and Medicaid, along with cities, towns, and various Federal departments. BHN also contracts with most health insurance companies. BHN and its programs have been instrumental in development of new services and meeting the behavioral health needs of the Pioneer Valley. We serve the most challenging individuals, utilize evidenced-based treatment models, and collaborate well with healthcare, social service organizations and educational systems to promote integrated quality services to individuals and their families.
Freedom for All Americans is the bipartisan campaign to secure full nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people nationwide. Our work brings together Republicans and Democrats, businesses large and small, people of faith, and allies from all walks of life to make the case for comprehensive non-discrimination protections that ensure everyone is treated fairly and equally. With the ultimate goal of securing federal statutory protections for LGBTQ Americans, Freedom for All Americans works at the federal, state, and local level to advance measures and laws protecting from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression – without allowing overly broad and harmful religious exemptions that will encourage employers, business owners or others to choose to disregard those protections. Opponents of non-discrimination laws are currently pursuing strategies to chip away at protections for the LGBTQ community and undermine the movement`s gains. We will push against these attempts to codify discrimination. However, it is not enough to merely take a defensive posture – we must take the fight on the offensive, with a multi-year initiative that seizes on our best opportunities to advance local and state-level victories. Throughout all of this work, we must also pursue a broad, ambitious initiative to educate Americans about who LGBTQ people are and why non-discrimination protections are so critical.
The YWCA West Central Michigan has been a place of hope, healing, and renewal for over 100 years. We believe that achieving economic, social and political empowerment for all women is inextricably linked to eliminating racism and achieving an equal, just, and sustainable society. With over three decades of experience in these fields, highly-credentialed and culturally-sensitive clinicians, and a proven record of helping victims heal, the YWCA is a recognized leader in Michigan.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world`s worst humanitarian crises and help people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees and displaced people forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40+ countries and in 29 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure.
Bridges Outreach exists to bridge churches, schools, and communities through programming that feeds, tutors and mentors at-risk youth. Bridges Outreach creates windows of opportunity with hopes of developing each student academically, socially, emotionally and spiritually.