Programs
Desert Rose Gives programs are designed with the neighbors we serve, not for them. Each program centers prevention, cultural honesty, and peer leadership over crisis response or one-way delivery.
WellXcel is a best-practice wellness and performance education model, developed by a licensed clinician, that addresses the social determinants of health across high-pressure ecosystems through culturally responsive training, consultation, and community support. WellXcel is a prevention, education, training, and consultation program, not a clinical service.
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Mind Over Media is a weekly community program that breaks down the mental health messaging in media, targeting young people in its first iteration, and teaching them how to decode and contextualize what they consume. Sessions are small, discussion-based, and digitally-hosted. Participants leave with shared language, encouraged curiosity, and a stronger read on who is trying to sell them what. Funded by the Department of Child and Family Services, Child Death Review, for suicide prevention, since 2025.
Learn about Mind Over MediaDesert Rose Gives is the named independent research partner of ECQO Holdings on the ECQO-Care Pilot, contributing research design, cultural-responsiveness review, and community pilot oversight. Desert Rose Gives also conducts independent community programs and research that are distinct from the ECQO Holdings platform. This work is supported by a combination of community gifts, grants, and partner contributions. Funders and partners are acknowledged publicly on this site only after written permission is on file; other applications are in progress or in development.
Whether you are a neighbor, a parent, a peer, or a partner organization, there is a way into this work that fits you.