Deep Space Mind 215 is a community-based mental health co-operative developing practices of care work that center the lived experience of Philadelphians’ mental health challenges, neurodiversity, and/or institutionalization.
We support practitioners with lived experience of mental health challenges, neurodiversity, and/or institutionalization.
What We Offer
Three of our four service areas, previewed here — the full list lives on What We Do.
Community Education, Professional, and Organizational Development
Facilitation is a craft and an art that brings people and ideas together toward powerful action. Our worker-owners design, facilitate, and debrief workshops, trainings, and peer-support spaces for groups small and large.
Community-based Initiatives
With twenty-plus combined years of Philadelphia-based grassroots organizing, our cooperative brings research, documentation, and archival work to build and support justice-oriented communities.
Wellness and Therapeutic Interventions
Our worker-owners bring specialized experience in mental health and wellness, and support local organizers working on incarceration, institutionalization, housing, and issues affecting youth.
Our Community
“Deep Space Mind 215 has set a standard for what robust, curated, and aligned partnerships should look and feel like for our organization. Through youth-facing workshops on mad mapping and afrofuturism, staff trainings and case consultations on navigating the child welfare system, Deep Space Mind 215 has equipped us with the base knowledge needed to ensure our program participants are informed about the systems around them and empowered to shift and reconstruct how they engage with them.”
—Our Partners at Collective Climb
“I plan on utilizing the skills I gained in this training to support the suspected reconciliation work that eventually would be needed in the future as we engage and organize with residents at a block to block level.”
—Jose, Community Organizer at Healing Hurt People & Hunting Park Green
“This training was everything. It helped my family understand what we want in our home and how we want to run our home. I took in everything from pod mapping to thinking about harmony. I want to be balanced. I would take it again. This training is definitely needed.”
—Jayda, Co-chair of the Philly Homes 4 Youth Youth Inclusion Committee and Case Aide Coordinator at Congreso de Latinos Unidos
DSM215 is not itself a 501(c)(3) — it is fiscally sponsored, and your donation supports our work through our nonprofit sponsor.