We have currently paused chapter applications and have sunset many of our existing chapters as we transition into a new phase of our chapter-based work.

Project LETS chapters are led by and for Disabled, Mad, neurodivergent students — and those who live at the intersection of complex identities as trauma survivors, psychiatric and medical survivors, and folks who have been labeled or identify with the language of mental illness.

Our focuses are:

  1. Peer Support and Community Care

  2. Political Education

  3. Organizing and advocating for tangible change

  4. Mutual aid

First and foremost, Project LETS chapter leaders, members, and peer support advocates build power, community, and connection with each other.

A diabetic Pakistani woman sits in a pizza restaurant with a childhood friend, using a pump to inject some insulin before eating. The friend carries on the conversation while holding a slice of pizza, and is a Pakistani woman with wavy hair, a pink s

“Haadia Khan Art for Disabled And Here.” A diabetic Pakistani woman sits in a pizza restaurant with a childhood friend, using a pump to inject some insulin before eating. The friend carries on the conversation while holding a slice of pizza, and is a Pakistani woman with wavy hair, a pink shirt, and high-rise jeans. The woman on the right wears a blue hijab paired with a floral pink dress. Their table is filled with pizza, fries, and fresh-squeezed fruit drinks.

 
 

What’s happening on campus?

  • The number of students experiencing mental distress and psychiatric/emotional crises are at an all time high — and colleges are ill equipped to handle our needs.

  • The last time national data was collected in 2012, 64% of students who dropped out of college left school due to complications with their mental illness.

  • In educational settings, Disabled, Mad, neurodivergent, and mentally ill students face many intersecting forms of ableism and sansim that impact our ability to access an equitable education.

  • Many structural barriers exist within the current model of mental health care that prevent our community members from accessing competent care, and from attempting to access care in the first place.

 

Past Project LETS Chapters

Brown University
Northwestern University
Dartmouth College
Temple University
Michigan State University
Cornell University
Boston University
Boston College
Columbia University
University of Texas-Dallas
Smith College
UCLA
Stanford University
Columbia University Graduate School
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Bergen Community College
Tufts
Adelphi
University of Chicago
The College of the Holy Cross
Ithaca College
Indiana University — Bloomington
University of Florida
University of Rhode Island
Rhode Island College
North Dakota State University
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
West Virginia University
University of Alabama-Birmingham
University of Waterloo
University of California- Davis
Friends Academy
The Spence School