Jewish Mental Health Resources

Blue Dove Foundation     Featuring: Gabrielle Spatt, Executive Director

Blue Dove provides mental health education awareness and outreach through a Jewish lens and for the Jewish community. Mental illness often causes people to feel alone and separate. During this interview, Gabby Spatt, Executive Director of Blue Dove Foundation, vulnerably shares her story. Gabby states that this is part of her healing process. Being in a space where people share their story and hear other stories is where healing begins. Hearing someone’s story helps people realize they are not alone. Hearing someone’s story gives people courage to share their own story. We welcome you to dive into the resources that Blue Dove provides. To Listen to the stories. And when ready, share your stories to expand healing for a strong community and world. 

About Blue Dove Foundation: The Blue Dove Foundation was created to address mental illness and addiction in the Jewish community and beyond. We work with organizations and communities -- both Jewish and interfaith -- across the country and around the world.

Blue Dove’s Mission is to educate, equip, and ignite our Jewish community with tools to understand, support, and overcome the challenges presented by mental illness and substance abuse. As a community with a focus on tikkun olam, we work to eradicate the shame and stigma surrounding these issues. Once we achieve this goal, we can begin to improve and save lives.

Our Work: 1. Educate and raise awareness about mental health within the Jewish community. 2. Produce powerful and engaging resources about the connections between mental wellness and Judaism.
3. Spearhead and design programs that can be easily replicated in any community, like mental health shabbat dinners and community training programs.Communities of Practice

Creating vibrant and diverse communities of practice are core to Mitsui Collective’s long-term vision and ability to activate communities in the work of resiliency-building. Our aim is ultimately to center embodied Jewish practice and somatic antiracism as immersive and transformational foundations of contemporary Jewish life. As we continue to hone our internal capacity and operational strength for carrying forward our existing work to date, we are also laying the groundwork to expand our footprint both vertically and horizontally.

Vertically this includes further depth both in our local work in the Cleveland area — where we hope overtime to establish a physical homebase both for local community building and as a national headquarters for immersive programs and ongoing research & development — and our intensive work resourcing and training the growing field of embodied Jewish practitioners and educators. Horizontally this looks like catalyzing and growing the ecosystem of opportunities and platforms (both in person and online) to be in communities of practice with others for whom embodiment and liberatory anti racist practice are core to their Jewish expression and spiritual identity.

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