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CHAI is building access where community, healing, and the arts naturally meet

Why chai?

Across Minnesota, many people face barriers to care, expression, and connection. For BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and low-income community members, access to healing spaces—especially culturally-rooted and arts-based healing—is often limited by cost, long waitlists, systemic bias, and a lack of providers who reflect their identities and lived experiences.

At CHAI, we believe healing is not a privilege. Healing is a collective right.

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Minnesotans who would benefit most from healing arts are often the ones with the least access.

CHAI is here to change that.

We partner directly with credentialed music, art, drama, and dance/movement therapists—and with cultural and community-rooted artists—to make healing accessible to communities who have been historically excluded from resources. Instead of re-granting to organizations, CHAI pays practitioners directly, funds materials, and removes financial barriers for participants.

Our mission is grounded in justice, cultural humility, and community care. We honor the truth that healing has always lived both inside and outside institutions—and we invest in both.

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