Chekws Counseling and Family Services

Chekws: Hope for Tomorrow Counseling Program & Services

The Two Feathers’ Chekws: Hope for Tomorrow counseling program strives to provide innovative, culturally-responsive, trauma-informed, mental health and well-being services that center and uplift the voices, values and cultural practices of Native youth and families in Humboldt County.

The Framework

We strive to reduce barriers to services and do our best to offer high quality services that are culturally driven, strengths-based, collaborative and meet the youths and families where they are at. The program does this through adopting a framework that seeks to decolonize its mental health services through the following values and approaches:

Acknowledging Native Culture

Acknowledging that Native culture is grounded in values that provide a framework for living a healthy, balanced, and relational life rooted in culture, connection and community.

Community Connection

Working through a community and connection-centered approach that recognizes the individual cannot be separated from the community.

Strength-Based

Engaging in a collaborative approach with youth and families to support and uplift their culture, goals, dreams, and aspirations.

Developmental Relationships

Extending the dosage and duration of care, youth can develop long-term relationships with healthy adults which may make lasting impacts on the trajectory of their mental health.

Reducing Barriers to Care

Actively addressing and reducing barriers to services by applying dedicated resources, sustained efforts, and overcoming systemic inequities that affect Native communities.

Program Offerings

In the Chekws: Hope for Tomorrow counseling program, Native youth are offered individual counseling, as well as other complementary services including: drop in groups (school-based), Peer Support services, Intensive Case Management, and 2SLGBTQIA+ programming.

Individual CounselingTherapy for all Native American youth

School Drop-in ServicesGroups and school services

Peer Support ServicesIntensive, supportive mentorships

Intensive Case ManagementCentering a supportive approach to work alongside youth

Queer ProgrammingHelping Native youth celebrate who they are