Social Equity Plan

Shrooms Cafe Social Equity Plan

Adopted May 9, 2023

Updated Sept 4, 2024

Shrooms Cafe is designed to enable end users with different needs to find the right service for them.   With both a low dose and higher dose options, the cost and pricing can vary quite a lot.  It is a premise, that in general, the more trauma, the higher dose and more frequent that treatment may be.  For that reason, our member based approach to our end users includes policies on enabling affordable care for all audiences.

This center offers to host sessions for marginalized communities, including targeted sessions for these identified communities: 

People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+), Senior citizens, Black, Indigenous, people of color, and American Indian/Alaska Native people (BIPOC-AI/AN), Military Combat Veterans, Disabilities, , People with low-income, People with disabilities, People living in rural areas of the state, Immigrants and refugees.   

We will provide both regular programming as well as on demand programming to meet audience requests. We are open to other communities forming. One way we intend to further support these communities is to have hiring policies that favor the best practitioners, and pairing practitioners with communities to represent both sides of the spectrum, the end user and the teacher.

Shrooms Help Center social equity operations

Shrooms Cafe intake allows an individual to identify with a population to get discounted services. Shrooms Cafe will create community sessions that allow people who identify to group together.   We will promote communities such as rural, BIPOC-AI/AN, LGBTQ+, and others as they form.

Shrooms Cafe team will be focused on the communities we serve and learn from the feedback of the participants.

Shrooms Cafe plans to track and share progress 

The Shrooms Cafe team has built and is growing an application to manage the registration and verification process for each member attending a session.   We plan to use this service to track identification of marginalized communities and also the discounts and benefits provided to them in their journey.

Shrooms Cafe’s goal will be to provide a 10% reduction of fees to members of marginalized communities.   We will track this against our population and report our results.

Our first equity report was delivered in August 2024.   Shrooms Cafe wasn't operating yet so it did not include details of operations.    Our next report will be August 2025.