She Dreams In Color Foundation
$800 is a health plan for one woman
Our Mission
The She Dreams In Color Foundation raises money to provide mental health therapy services to marginalized women in Charlotte. We also work to reduce the stigma of mental health needs and seeking care through our storytelling.
Established in May 2022, the
She Dreams In Color Foundation will begin funding mental health private practices in Charlotte in 2024. Our funds will provide free and reduced cost mental health therapy to marginalized women in Charlotte who make below the poverty level.
Interview Series & Podcast
Through video and podcast storytelling, She Dreams In Color Foundation is helping remove the stigma of mental health needs and seeking mental health care. Women on our series discuss their Occupations & a personal Obstacle while sharing insight into their own experiences with therapy and mental health.
What we do
Our goal is to raise 10,000 therapy hours to provide mental health care for marginalized women in Charlotte.
Our Board of Directors voted to define marginalized as Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, and other women of color living below Federal Poverty guidelines and living in health disparity zip codes in Mecklenburg County. Funds we raise will be distributed to private practices in Charlotte, with multiple licensed providers, who represent and serve the women we have designated our funding. In 2024, the board voted to prioritize funding to women living within health disparity zip codes. In Charlotte, these communities have historically been referred to as "the crescent" which are plagued with health and other social inequalities.
Our goal is to provide eight therapy sessions per woman. Our private practice partners will receive a $100 reimbursement per hour of mental health care they provide. The average cost for self-pay therapy in North Carolina is $180. Because 75% of mental health therapists are women and 25% self-identify as a minority we want our providers reimbursed for their services as close to cost as possible. Funding private practice providers helps Charlotte woman-owned small businesses in our community.
We use our Interview Series and Podcast as outreach to normalize seeking mental health services to show the positive impacts of therapy and to show a diversity of women speaking on benefits of mental wellness. Research and clinical trials in 2022 proved that internet-based storytelling with stigma-related content have an impact on reducing negative mental health stigmas. Read more.