
Our Sliding Scale
At And Still We Rise, we value economic justice and accessibility of mental healthcare services. We recognize that services we provide may be inaccessible to those within our community, so we have adopted an equitable sliding scale payment option. Our aim is to increase accessibility to quality, culturally informed providers while ensuring fair compensation to our team by asking clients to pay according to their available resources.
The chart below is “…intended to be a map, inviting each person to take inventory of their financial resources and look deeper at their levels of privilege or systemic barriers...[a way] to challenge the classist and capitalistic society we live in and work towards economic justice as a community” (Hawthorne, 2018).
Guidelines
Please Note: If this process feels uncomfortable, it should! Because “our discomfort is required for justice.”
Consider paying
less if you…
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Startup (0-4 years) with minimal access to capital and/or a company that serves marginalized groups
Consider paying
full rate if you…
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Small to medium sized company
Consider paying
more if you…
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You’re a Fortune 500 company and or your company is publicly listed
References: Embracing Equity, Little Red Bird Botanical, & Warts & Cunning Apothecary