Wildfires may have taken homes, routines, and familiar landscapes—but they did not take you. HOPE to Healing is a 6-part, in-person wellness series designed to support LGBTQ+ adults in rebuilding emotional resilience, strengthening community connection, and reclaiming inner safety after disruption and loss. Through guided reflection, mindfulness, music, and storytelling, participants will explore themes of grief, identity, and belonging—while learning simple, practical self-care tools to support emotional wellbeing long after the series ends.

5:00-6:00 PM Resilience, hope, & healing facilitated session
6:00-7:00 PM Complimentary supper

Tuesday, July 31: Strength in Circles – Building community and reducing isolation
Tuesday, August 14: What Is Home? – Redefining belonging after displacement
Tuesday, August 28: Love, Loss & What Remains – Honoring grief and making space for what still lives

Come as you are. Leave with community, clarity, and self-care tools you can return to—again and again. Space is limited.

For the first Supper Club, we will partake in dinner from Smokehouse Social Barbecue with a selection of brisket, pulled pork, sausage, chicken, sides, salad, and texas toast.

This will be facilitated by Stacie Yeldell, MA, MT-BC, mental health consultant with Project HOPE. 

About Project HOPE
Project HOPE is a global NGO that provides health and health-adjacent services in communities impacted by crisis and disaster. In the wake of the LA Fires, we’ve been working with local organizations, schools, and communities to support recovery and resiliency through a variety of interventions, including the provision of health care, distribution of supplies, and offering trauma-informed mental health programming for youth and community members across the fire impacted areas. Learn more about Project HOPE's response here.

If you have any questions please contact our Program Associate Kieran Highsmith at [email protected] or call 626-765-6037.