​ MISSION STATEMENT

 

Flamingo Trauma Recovery is bringing continuity between mental health and faith by merging services like therapy, group counseling, support groups, and deliverance ministry to make healing affordable and accessible to the communities in need. Our curriculum is designed to support recovery from traumas of childhood, transition, and religious confusion with licensed providers and curated spaces to discuss the frustrations of suffering and how the journey intersects with faith. We support individuals who are looking to start or advance in their healing journey but have been plagued by a lack of resources and/or the cultural stigma around mental illness within the black community. We are responding to the mental health disparities for black women who are at greater risk for Major Depression but are half as likely to seek out professional help compared to the white population. After programming, we hope to connect participants to female providers of color who can relate to them culturally, and help them segue into a practice of receiving individualized therapy or counseling. 

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Eventually, Flamingo Trauma Recovery will serve men of color and children to further change the stigma surrounding mental health, educate communities of faith on relevant issues, and develop teams who are prepared to help others who are experiencing mental health crises.​

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Our Vision

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Flamingo Trauma Recovery addresses socioeconomic, cultural, and religious barriers that prevent people of color, particularly women, from living an abundant and healthy life. Our agenda is to remove the barrier of financial hardship by offering sponsorships to qualifying participants to see a therapist of their choice. 

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We address cultural barriers that ostracize women of faith that recognize a need for inner healing and shames them for not enduring significant levels of trauma in silence and humility. 

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We address religious barriers by revisiting harmful doctrine that creates a destructive narrative about suffering, ostracizes those who identify with their suffering, and demonizes medical need for mental health care.​

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Our Reason

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The Church Of Jesus Christ has a right and responsibility to be vocal in conversations on healing, mental wellness, deliverance, and its connection to the Gospel. Our mission is to bring continuity between mental wellness and faith by merging mental health services, The Gospel, and deliverance to make healing affordable and accessible to communities that don’t have it.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

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Proverbs 13:12