Community Partners

5 Elements’ mission is to explore innovative methods to promote academic and personal development from elementary levels to transitional adulthood. Their programs serve youth of color with evidence-based practices and multicultural frameworks, using the arts as a vehicle to overcome adversity.

They serve diverse youth populations from low-income Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Arab communities who reside in the Bayview, Excelsior, Sunnydale, Lakeview, and Mission districts of San Francisco. They partner with innovative projects across the Bay Area, extending their reach to youth across the region.

Beautiful Beginnings Arts Collective's mission is to inspire and nurture artistic expression and gratitude for their multicultural traditions. Through education, hands-on experience, and teamwork, they aim to provide Bay Area youth with rich visual, musical and movement art forms for them to carry on a lineage of artistic traditions as tomorrow’s leaders, teachers and elders. As a community of seasoned educators, mentors, organizers, and creative risk takers who uphold common values of humility, respect, and joy, they center youth artistic development.  While they operate as an independent, grassroots group, they collaborate with established schools and community organizations. 

Collective Hearts Birth’s founder, Shannon Padlog, believes wholeheartedly that birth can be an empowering, joyful, and positive experience, regardless of outcome. Each birthing person deserves respect, dignity, and support through this profound, life-changing process. By nature, birth is a unique and deeply personal experience, and each parent has their own set of hopes and values. She offers non-judgmental care and mentoring in preparation for this journey, so families can greet labor with knowledge, coping tools, confidence, and connection. As a birth worker, she sees herself as part of a large and diverse movement of change makers, working to improve access to respectful care for ALL families. The families and individuals she works with come from diverse racial, economic, and gender make-ups, and inclusivity is a cornerstone of my care.

Founded in 2004, the Filipino Community Center is dedicated to providing a safe space where Filipino families can access services, receive support, and build community. We foster and develop community empowerment, grassroots leadership, advocacy, and organizing to address the immediate and long term issues of our communities locally, and in the Philippines.

Through capacity building, outreach and engagement in the Filipino community, the filipino mental health initiative-sf strives to reduce stigma, promote awareness, and increase access to culturally appropriate wellness services and the effectiveness of the behavioral health services in San Francisco.

The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco, founded by Sri Swami Satchidananda, is a non-profit, interfaith organization dedicated to serving the community through living and sharing the classical teachings of Yoga, making the teachings accessible, and cultivating peace and harmony among all people.

Instituto Familiar de la Raza is a community based organization providing mental health and educational services to the Latino/Chicano communities of the city of San Francisco for the last 40 years.