About

Yaadi Strong Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing culturally rooted psychosocial support to Jamaican communities affected by disaster and chronic stress — at home and in the diaspora.
We were founded after Hurricane Melissa devastated communities across Jamaica in October 2025. What we saw on the ground was not a shortage of goodwill. It was a shortage of support that looked like us, sounded like us, and understood us. Yaadi Strong exists to close that gap.
Our work is supported by licensed practitioners and grounded in Jamaican cultural identity. We believe healing happens faster when it feels familiar. We bring professional mental health support into the spaces where Jamaicans already gather — schools, shelters, community centers, and online.
Current programs include school-based art therapy and psychosocial sessions for children displaced by Hurricane Melissa, a muralization program restoring dignity and beauty to damaged school buildings, and the Yaad & Foreign series connecting diaspora mental health professionals with communities on the island.
We are building a pipeline of Jamaican and Caribbean-rooted practitioners — at home and abroad — who can show up when the next storm comes. Because there will be a next storm. And our people deserve more than tarps and tinned food. They deserve to be seen.
This is not charity. This is solidarity.
Yaadi Strong Foundation. Healing Today, Building Tomorrow.