RISEBRIDGE is a non-profit run by action-oriented peers and professionals mandated to provide a safe and culturally-anchored low-barrier space, open 7 days a week, to advance the mental health, resilience and wellbeing of our community while amplifying social justice movements and elevating harm reduction initiatives.

We are a strong, united voice committed to taking action toward equity and allyship; empowering community through connection and community events while focusing on addressing the root causes of social injustice at our local level. We strive to minimize the gaps in our social service offerings by offering peer mentorship, system navigation, and culturally-informed responsive services to prevent individual crises to our trauma-affected community members.

Our weekly programs include drop-in spaces, workshops, and empowerment opportunities for pre/post natal, youth, elders, parenting, men/women, and LGBTQIA2S+. Our services consist of resource connection, mental-health check-ins, elder support, restorative justice and afrocentric healing circles, 16 step and SMRT recovery programs, literacy support, hair/art workshops, and more. We are proud to be hosting monthly community events including art in the park, sexual education workshops, gardening programs, sports games, and multicultural concerts/festivals to aid in building bridges and adding vibrancy to our community.

BLACK LIVES MATTER EVERY CHILD MATTERS

Contact risebridgeproject@gmail.com to get more information on the project

To take direct action, you may call your provincial leadership to fulfill the commitments they have made to enhance the lives, and protect the rights, of groups such as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, individuals with neurodiversity, those with concurrent disorders, those experiencing economic marginalization, or those involved in the opioid epidemic. Reviewing the NDP's current commitments gives a good basis by which to inform an email or letter to voice concern.