The “Make Mental Health a Human Right” Campaign
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Kula has kicked off our fundraising campaign to make mental health a human right.
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We are grateful for a generous donation of $400,000 from Steve Madden.
"Spring is here and there is hope in my heart... the world seems like a mess right now... but there is one organization that brings hope and love to people... I will always support Kula for Karma... I'm honored to be associated..."
- Steve Madden
The COVID-19 pandemic created a mental health crisis in our country, and revealed an inequitable, inaccessible and strained mental healthcare system.
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We believe every human being deserves to have the appropriate space, tools, and resources to understand, manage and improve their mental health. Kula provides this to marginalized and underserved children, teens, and adults experiencing trauma, addiction and mental health conditions.
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We meet people where they are, educate them about the impact of trauma on their bodies and minds, and teach them mindfulness practices scientifically proven to regulate the nervous system, increase resilience and focus, and reduce the effects of anxiety, depression and PTSD. We provide the tools to achieve and sustain a brighter future.
Flip through our program overview:
Kula was a grassroots effort founded in 2007 in response to local observations that has grown into an essential national mental health movement that is perfectly positioned to speak to this very moment in history: the post-pandemic mental health crisis.
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As we face an extremely challenging mental health environment, Kula’s goal is to proactively fill the desperate need for accessible, equitable, inclusive, affordable and consistent mental health care for underserved and marginalized people, and first responders.
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Kula meets this post-pandemic moment in history by expanding our science-backed mindfulness-based mental healthcare programs, and we can only do it with your help!
OUR GOALS
Histories of oppression and discrimination create ancestral and familial trauma passed along generations and social locations. Mindfulness-based mental health offers healing modalities shown to guide us out of fight or flight survival mode and change the expression of DNA to empower and heal.
OUR NEEDS INCLUDE:
Attracting diverse, top-tier talent to meet our goals and the mental health needs of our communities.
Funding political advocacy to establish the future of mindfulness-based mental health care as an equitable and scalable solution to the national and local mental health crisis.
Hiring inclusive core staff to carry out our vision, communicate with our constituents, and raise funds to sustain our work.
Hiring committed advocates to research, lay groundwork, and build the infrastructure for launching successful new programs.
Training and hiring a diverse range of new teachers to lead and teach our programs.
Integrating new resources and technologies that best support, measure, and improve our impact.
Kula supports our employees working from home so that we do not have to spend funding on office space. Every penny that is donated or granted to us goes directly to critical organizational functions and creating, developing, opening and running programs.
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