Benefit featuring Joy Oladokun raises money for mental health care

• The group established a therapy fund to connect people from those communities with care at no cost.
• Another fund helps mental health professionals from those communities access advanced trauma training to ensure they can provide quality care to marginalized people.

What to know: The Healing in the Holidays benefit starts at 6:30pm on Friday at AB Hillsboro (formerly known as Anzie Blue). Tickets are still available.

What they're saying: Healing in the Margins executive director Ashley Hampton tells Axios that her organization believes "systemic change is needed in mental health and we are committed to making that happen."

• "For too long, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folks have been left out of the conversation regarding access to mental health care."
• "At Healing in the Margins we support community members seeking care, the clinicians who provide the therapy and [those] who want to better support their BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community."