Rebroadcast: Thursday, December 18, 2025 • 11:00 AM PST
Some days feel heavy, and that’s okay. This session is about finding small, realistic ways to care for your mental and emotional well-being. Together, we’ll explore how to build habits that support your growth, nurture your well-being, and bring a little more ease into your day. Wherever you are in your journey, this is a space to feel supported and cared for, and to leave with tools you can carry forward.
Who This Is For
Young women ages 18 to 22 with disabilities that impact how they communicate with the world who want simple tools to manage stress, find balance, and care for their mental health.
What to Expect
Join us for a 60-minute Mental Health & Self-Care Workshop with our partners at Project LETS, a peer-led organization driven by people with lived experience in mental health and disability.
Together, we’ll talk about what self-care can look like for different people and discover ways to make it personal and accessible. This fireside chat–style workshop includes space for Q&A with and is packed with resources you can actually use in your daily life.
Accessibility and Participation
All H.E.R. workshops are designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind. All workshops include ASL interpretation and live captioning.
When you sign up, you can share any accommodations that would help you participate comfortably, and our team will do our very best to make it happen. If you have questions about accessibility before the session, you’re always welcome to reach out!
What You’ll Take With You
A simple check-in to see how you’re really doing
New ways to ask for and welcome support
Tools to help you feel centered and supported as you care for your mind and well-being
Small steps to bring care and confidence into your daily routine
A reminder that you deserve care, comfort, and kindness.
Resources
Stefanie Lyn Kaufman Mthimkhulu (they/she) is a multiply-Disabled care strategist, psychiatric survivor, and healing practitioner who moves through the world with experiences of altered states. They are a white, queer, non-binary person of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Stefanie is rooted in historical and political lineages of Disability Justice and Mad Liberation, and shows up for their communities as a frontline crisis responder, peer supporter, parent, birth and death worker, writer, and conflict interventionist. With over a decade of experience as the Director of Project LETS, their work focuses on building systems of community mental health care that exist outside of the state, and supporting people to build anti-carceral practices that support holistic and self-determined healing.
Financial planning can feel overwhelming for many people with disabilities, especially when saving money may affect important benefits.
In this workshop, we’ll break down ABLE accounts, Special Needs Trusts, and Trump Accounts.
This special session of the H.E.R. initiative is open to women of all ages seeking clear, practical guidance on financial tools that support independence and financial security.
You already belong. You already shine. This session helps you reconnect with your confidence and define beauty on your terms. Through reflection, conversation, and real-world examples, you’ll explore how style, identity, and self-love can support you in showing up boldly and fully.
Your identity is yours to define. This session is about seeing yourself fully—and helping others do the same. You’ll explore how to describe your disability on your own terms and feel proud doing it. You’ll also reflect on what drives you, build confidence in how you show up in school, at work, and in group settings, and strengthen your voice across different parts of your life.