irs program accomplishments · form 990 part iii · fy2024
What they reported doing
- #1 primary $60KCOMMUNITY BUILDING - THROUGH COMMUNITY BUILDING, WE BRING TOGETHER A RANGE OF DIVERSE STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE, MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS, ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS, FAMILY MEMBERS, AND OTHER ADVOCATES TO SHARE WISDOM AND EXPERIENCE, WITH ALL VOICES VALUED AT THE SAME LEVEL. OUR COMMUNITY-BUILDING INITIATIVES NOT ONLY BOLSTER OUR LEARNING AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES BUT ALLOW FOR MORE INTIMATE SPACES TO STRENGTHEN A CULTURE OF CURIOSITY AND TRANSFORMATION. EVENTS ARE FACILITATED BY THE DIVERSE STAKEHOLDERS LISTED ABOVE, WITH SUPPORT FROM STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS. ACTIVITIES ARE PRIMARILY CONDUCTED ONLINE VIA A REMOTE/VIRTUAL COMMUNITY-BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE. THESE ACTIVITIES ARE LOW COST, HAVE A LOW BARRIER TO ENTRY, HELP BUILD OUR MEMBER BASE, AND CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT FOR SHARED LEARNING.
- #2 $24KCROSS-MOVEMENT ORGANIZING - IDHA IS COMMITTED TO BUILDING BRIDGES, GROUNDED IN THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE MUST LEARN FROM A DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVES IN ORDER TO GROW AND CREATE MEANINGFUL CHANGE. FOR TRUE TRANSFORMATION TO OCCUR, PARTNERSHIPS MUST BE CULTIVATED WITH THOSE WORKING TOWARD CHANGE IN A RANGE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. THIS WORK IS PRIMARILY ACHIEVED THROUGH CROSS-MOVEMENT PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND THE ONGOING MAINTENANCE OF A MOVEMENT CALENDAR. PANEL EVENTS FEATURE THE PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERTISE OF MOVEMENT ACTIVISTS, PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE, MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS, AND OTHER ADVOCATES. ORGANIZING AND IMPLEMENTATION ARE SUPPORTED BY STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS. ACTIVITIES ARE CONDUCTED ONLINE VIA A REMOTE/VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO REACH A WIDE AUDIENCE.
named programs · 3 · from sources
What they call their work
Community Building
Virtual events that bring together diverse stakeholders including mental health providers, people with lived experience, activists, artists, and family members to share wisdom and foster mutual learning
Cross-Movement Organizing
Panel discussions and a shared movement calendar to connect mental health advocacy with broader social justice movements, promoting collaboration across causes
Transformative Mental Health Core Curriculum
Self-paced and cohort-based online learning program offering 24+ hours of content across eight modules, designed to reframe mental health care through historical, systemic, and experiential lenses
activities · 8 groups
What they do
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Mental Health Education and Awareness 3 activities
- Advance intersectional anti-oppression analysis in public programmingIntegrates an intersectional anti-oppression framework into all public programs, including specific events such as Topographies of (Dis)connection and Decarcerating Care, to examine how systems of power impact mental health experiences and responses.
- Amplify marginalized voices through digital platformsOperates a blog that spotlights voices from the IDHA community, particularly those most marginalized and impacted by the mental health system, while amplifying diverse perspectives on mental health, transformative justice, and holistic healing.
- Organize community events and workshops on transformative mental health topicsHosts virtual and in-person community-building events, workshops, and panel discussions focused on mutual aid, trauma, spirituality, psychotropic medication, advocacy, and crisis transformation. Events are co-created with people with lived experience, clinicians, activists, artists, and family members to foster peer learning and shared knowledge.
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Organizational DEI Capacity Building 1 activity
- Build organizational capacity through structural and cultural developmentUndertook internal organizational development including revising governance structures, clarifying roles and decision-making authority, formalizing Working Group expectations with written agreements and stipends, developing conflict response tools, and conducting internal anti-racism training to align practices with anti-oppression values.
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Volunteer and Professional Training Programs 1 activity
- Deliver in-person and virtual educational programs and training seriesConducts structured educational programs and multi-month training series—such as "Re-Thinking Crisis," "Crisis as Catalyst," and "Experience Transforms Practice"—in both in-person (New York City) and virtual formats. These programs integrate lived experience with professional expertise and have reached hundreds of participants nationally and internationally, especially after transitioning during the pandemic.
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Educator Training in Equity and Inclusion 1 activity
- Develop and adapt curricula with diverse faculty for national and international useEngages 54 faculty members from diverse geographic, professional, and identity backgrounds—including over 70% with lived mental health experience and significant representation of people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals—to develop, deliver, and refine a core Transformative Mental Health curriculum designed for broad adaptation and scalability.
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Professional Training and Certification in Mental Health 1 activity
- Host and distribute self-paced online courses in transformative mental healthOffers an 8-module self-paced Transformative Mental Health Core Curriculum with over 22 hours of video content, readings, and journaling activities, developed based on input from individuals impacted by the mental health system and care providers. The curriculum integrates knowledge from diverse disciplines, social movements, and global perspectives to advance human-centered mental health care.
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Published Narrative Projects 1 activity
- Produce foundational research and publications in transformative mental healthCo-authored the book _Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness_ and is the subject of the documentary _Crooked Beauty_, contributing to the field’s body of knowledge on mad pride, lived experience, and alternative mental health paradigms.
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Accessibility Services for Cultural Programs 1 activity
- Promote accessibility and equity in program participationProvides financial scholarships, reduced pricing, ASL interpretation, captioning, image descriptions, and visual descriptions during live offerings to ensure equitable access for people with disabilities and marginalized identities. Awarded dozens of scholarships across multiple programs and ensured broad accessibility features in all public programming.
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Uncategorized 1 activity
- Co-found and support national mutual aid networks in radical mental healthCo-founded The Icarus Project, now known as the Fireweed Collective, an international mutual aid network that supports radical approaches to mental health and community-based care.
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financials · form 990EZ · fy2025
revenue
Total revenue$152K
Contributions & grants$39K25%
Program service revenue$104K69%
Investment income$00%
Other revenue$3K
expenses
Total expenses$418K
Program expenses64%
Admin / overhead32%
Fundraising5%
Salaries & benefits$254K
Grants paid out$0
Largest expense lineCompensation
balance sheet
Total assets$319K
Cash$282K
Investments$0
Liabilities$13K
Net assets$315K
Liquid reserves8.1 mo
3 years on record · 2023–2025 · YoY revenue -54.1%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2025
Who runs it
paid leadership · 1
| Name | Title | Hours/wk | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| JESSIE ROTH | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 40 | $105K |
board members · 5
- EVAN AUGUSTE — BOARD MEMBER
- JACQUI JOHNSON — BOARD MEMBER
- JAZMINE RUSSELL — BOARD MEMBER
- SARAH NAPOLI — BOARD MEMBER UNTIL NOVEMBER 2025
- VERONICA AGARD — BOARD MEMBER
relationships · 21
Who they work with
- AORTA Partner — Partnered to conduct stakeholder surveys assessing alignment with anti-oppression values.
- AORTA Partner — Partnered with AORTA to develop community surveys assessing IDHA’s progress toward becoming an explicitly anti-racist organization.
- Activists Partner — Partners with activists from various social movements to co-lead panel discussions and contribute to movement-building efforts.
- Artists Partner — Involves artists as stakeholders in community-building events to integrate creative expression into mental health dialogue.
- Dr. Peter Stastny Partner — Co-founder of IDHA, psychiatrist with deep involvement in the peer movement
- Facebook Partner — Collaborates on social media outreach, reviews, and event promotion
- Family members Partner — Includes family members of people with mental health experiences as valued participants in educational and community-building activities.
- Fireweed Collective Partner — Co-founded The Icarus Project, now known as the Fireweed Collective, an international support network in radical mental health.
- Instagram Partner — Collaborates on social media outreach and promotion of events and trainings
- Jazmine Russell Partner — Co-founder of IDHA, activist, educator, trauma survivor, and peer specialist
- Jessie Roth Partner — Director involved in delivering information sessions for the Core Curriculum
- Mental health providers Partner — Engages mental health providers as facilitators and participants in cross-movement panels and community-building initiatives.
- Noah Gokul Partner — Program Manager involved in delivering information sessions for the Core Curriculum
- People with lived experience Partner — Collaborates with individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges as equal contributors in community-building and panel events.
- Shamillah Wilson Partner — Engaged to conduct a qualitative culture review through in-depth interviews with staff, board, and members.
- Spring Up Partner — Board and staff participated in a Harm Systems Design Retreat facilitated by Spring Up, a transformative justice collective.
- Strategic Visioning Committee Coalition — Internal committee composed of IDHA staff, board members, and organizers that co-developed the 2021-2023 strategic plan
- Twitter Partner — Collaborates on social media outreach and promotion of events and trainings
- disability justice movement Partner — Partners with disability justice advocates to advance intersectional mental health transformation.
- environmental justice movement Partner — Builds partnerships with environmental justice advocates to support cross-movement, transformative change.
- racial justice movement Partner — Collaborates with racial justice advocates to address systemic oppression in mental health care.
strategies · 4
How they approach the work
Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.
- Centering Lived Experience as Epistemic Authoritymethodology: lived-experience-integrationBy integrating personal lived experience with professional expertise in trainings, curriculum development, and leadership, the organization produces more authentic and transformative mental health knowledge, because experiential knowledge is equally valid and essential for systemic change.
- Cross-Movement Ecosystem Buildingmethodology: cross-movement_organizingBy building multidisciplinary communities of practice and amplifying partner work across justice movements, the organization strengthens collective power and innovation in mental health transformation, because lasting change requires interdisciplinary collaboration and ecosystem-wide solidarity.
- Intersectional Anti-Oppression Frameworkmethodology: intersectional-anti-oppressionBy analyzing mental health through the lens of overlapping systems of oppression—such as race, disability, class, and gender—the organization advances collective healing and systemic transformation, because structural inequities are root causes of mental distress and must be addressed to achieve liberation.
- Pluralistic and De-Medicalized Healing Paradigmmethodology: de-medicalized_mental_healthBy rejecting a singular medical model and instead embracing diverse healing frameworks—including radical, spiritual, and mutual aid approaches—the organization fosters holistic care and individual agency, because mental health must be decolonized and re-centered on humanity, not pathology.