The Scatter Joy Project is a creative mental health nonprofit with a simple belief––creativity isn't just a coping mechanism. It's how people find language for what they're carrying. We exist to make sure that intersection, between the arts and mental health care, is treated like the lifeline it actually is.
Most mental health infrastructure is usually built around crisis. You have to be sick enough, insured enough, ready enough. Scatter Joy is building something different.
Creative programming and events that invite people in before the crisis. Digital media that reaches people where they are. A free 24/7 text line and a national network of free and reduced-cost resources for when real support is needed.
All of it funded by a community that refuses to accept the gap between where people are and what they deserve.
We believe creativity and community aren't additions to mental health care. They're the reimagination of it. And we're leading the way.
"I came across one of the artist interviews on Instagram, honestly just scrolling and killing time. But this person was talking about their creative practice and grief in the same breath, like they weren't two separate things, and I just sat with it for a while. I followed the account, kept watching, kept coming back. Eventually, I realized I was returning to this content and using it to process my own emotional mindset just as I would in a room with a therapist. That's when I understood what Scatter Joy was doing."
$10 — Helps keep free mental health resources in the hands of people who need them most
$25 — Supports the digital content that meets people where they are, before they're ready to ask for help
$50 — Helps fund the creative programming that gives people language for what they're carrying
$100 — Invests in the infrastructure that keeps this work free, accessible, and barrier-free for everyone
$250 — Powers the kind of mental health reimagination that doesn't show up anywhere else
$500+ — You're not just funding the work, you're leading the way with us. Thank you.