Navigating Marginalized Community Members
to Sustainable Resources
Our Purpose
At The Healing Project, we know that access to housing, food, transportation, education, and mental health support is critical for marginalized communities. When these basic needs are met, people have a real chance to stabilize, move forward, and access resources without barriers.
Through this work, we support individuals and families across Travis County and surrounding areas as they move toward sustainability, independence, and long-term stability. Our goal is simple: to help people heal, build self-sufficiency, and step into their power as leaders in their communities across Central Texas.
What We Do
Check out our programs and events, from community engagement to personalized help.
Healing Hunger
Through our community partners, we provide free, nutritious groceries to families in need. This program helps eliminate barriers to food access across Austin, TX and surrounding counties, offering support with dignity and compassion.
Healing on Wheels
Healing on Wheels brings essential resources directly to community members. Healing on Wheels ensures that families with the greatest barriers still receive consistent, dependable support and care from The Healing Project.
Healing in the Neighborhood
Our Generational Health program promotes healing in the Neighborhood by supporting whole-family wellness—mind, body, and spirit. We offer movement-based activities like meditation, yoga, sound baths, breathwork, and grounding practices for marginalized communities across Central Texas.
Resource Navigation
Need support? We connect our community to trusted support—like housing, food, healthcare, or transportation—through gentle referrals to the right partners at the right time.
Find Local Resources
Explore our full list of local resources—just scroll down to see the most up-to-date options available.
Locate a Food Pantry
Click below to find free groceries and meals in your area—no matter your situation, help is available.
Contribute to Our Cause
Your generosity provides our families with access to vital resources.
The Healing Project is a community-focused organization that relies on the support of volunteers & community partners.
AMPLIFY AUSTIN DAY
We’re launching the Healing Project Free Grocery Store because our community needs it—and they told us so.
After collecting 100+ surveys, families across Austin shared how hard it’s become to afford food. Through our programs, people are already saving up to $700 a month in grocery value—money they can use for rent, utilities, and basic survival.
We serve unhoused and marginalized community members, and we see every day how hard food access can be without stable housing, transportation, or income.
With partners like H-E-B, Costco, and Central Texas Food Bank, we’re ready to scale this work and create a consistent, dignified place for people to get what they need.
Thank you to our community and to Amplify Austin for this platform.
Because of your generosity, we’re able to keep serving unhoused and marginalized community members with food and basic needs that truly make a difference.
Your support turns into real impact—families eating, stress easing, and people getting through hard times with dignity.
We’re grateful for every donation, every share, and every person who believes in this work. Thank you for standing with The Healing Project.
Press
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Austin American-Statesman
“Nyeka Arnold, Executive Director of The Healing Project, right, works at the food pantry at Black Mamas Village ATX which is in a building previously occupied by Whole Women’s Health abortion clinic in Austin Thursday May 23, 2024.”
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Voyage Austin
“I love my city and my people. This is where I was taught to survive and live.”
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CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK HIGHLIGHT
Meet the Partner: How The Healing Project is Bringing Food and Hope Directly to Neighbors
“We are who we serve!” It’s a motto and a cheerful team yell as volunteers kicked off a distribution for The Healing Project in Pflugerville.
As a partner agency of the Central Texas Food Bank (CTFB), the organization provides food, diapers, hygiene items and wraparound support to families across Austin, Manor, Pflugerville and Round Rock — driving the items directly to their door if needed. What truly sets them apart is how deeply personal the work is.
“I have that lived experience and know how it feels to be in a community that has food insecurity,” said founder and executive director Nyeka Arnold.
Turning lived experience into action
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BOLD JOURNEY
Meet NYEKA ARNOLD
