Our Mission
To provide free and accessible mental health care, wellness services, and victim advocacy for Indigenous and underserved survivors of violence.
Healing Begins with Safety, Connection, and Community Care
Survivor-Centered Care
At HIR Wellness Institute, we provide community-based, trauma-informed mental health care that helps survivors of violence restore balance in mind, body, heart, spirit, and relationships. Our safe, supportive spaces allow individuals to process experiences, rebuild trust, and reconnect with themselves and their communities.
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Grounded in evidence-based practices, neuroscience, attachment theory, and Indigenous healing traditions, our approach emphasizes safety, choice, and cultural understanding. By leading with empathy, we reduce re-traumatization and open pathways to resilience, growth, and long-term healing.
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Through trauma-informed care, we co-create spaces that empower survivors, families, and communities to move from surviving to thriving, creating a future rooted in hope, dignity, and collective well-being.
Relatives Reached in a Year!
Our mental health groups provide a safe, supportive space where survivors can build coping skills, communication skills, and social connections. Through expressive art and play therapies, occupational therapy, and counseling services, participants engage in hands-on, experiential learning that promotes emotional well-being, resilience, and community.
This includes children and families provided with crisis care for victim and legal advocacy services. Our advoacy response team provides direct support to sex trafficking victims, missing relatives, and domstic violence and sexual assault.
In the past year, our Mobile Mental Health Clinics have reached over 5,000 people regionally and statewide, providing free, immediate mental health services and resources. Services include walk-up counseling, healing sessions, triage support, mental health and suicide risk screenings, and more than 20 brief mental health activities that can be taught in three minutes or less, offering fast, accessible tools for wellness wherever they are needed.
Our Impact and How You Can Help
Investing Community Mental Health
Over the past year, our team has delivered an estimated $2.6 million in mental health and wellness services, based on national average costs. This underscores the vital role we play in supporting our relatives, while also highlighting the growing demand for care.
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To continue providing these essential services, we rely on a blended funding model—including grants, donations, sponsorships, and the support of our network of partners.
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Your contributions make free, culturally responsive, trauma-informed care possible for those who need it most, ensuring no one is turned away due to financial constraints.
Join us in creating lasting healing, hope, and restoration for survivors of violence and trauma.