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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Support children and/or other dependants

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Have significant debt

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Are eligible for public assistance

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Experience discrimination in hiring or pay level

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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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Travel when needed, especially for an unexpected occasion

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Have reliable transportation

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Able to repay or have repaid your student debts

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Are able to miss work and still able to pay next month’s bills

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Small to medium sized company

 

Consider paying
more if you…
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Have a high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background,etc)

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Own the home you live in

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Work part time or unemployed by choice

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Have investments, retirement accounts or inherited money

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You’re a Fortune 500 company and or your company is publicly listed