Nonprofit · Pike County, Alabama · Since 2024
Every voice deserves to be heard. Every need deserves to be met. AAI was created to make this happen in Pike County, AL.
The Amplified Advocacy Initiative provides community advocacy, social justice education, and mental health resources for those often left out: Nontraditional Family Structures, Helping Professionals, and Survivors.
“I come as one, but I stand as ten thousand… for every injustice I have experienced, there are thousands of others who have yet to heal from the injustices they have faced.”
After Maya Angelou · These Words Act As Our Foundation
Start here
Find your path.
Different people need different things from us. Pick the one that sounds like you.
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I need support
Therapy offered on a sliding scale basis, support groups, free resources, and access to advocates.
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I'm a helping professional
Peer consultation, round tables, and training for the people holding the system together.
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I want to get involved
Volunteer, partner, sponsor, or bring one of our programs to your organization.
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I want to give
Donations help to fund community engagement events, group therapy, and resources for our community. A little can go a long way!
Why we exist
We work where the gaps are.
In rural Alabama, getting mental health support means waiting months, driving hours, or paying more than you have. Survivors go unheard. Grandparents raising grandchildren carry it alone. And the therapists, social workers, and first responders holding the whole system together burn out with nowhere to put it.
The Amplified Advocacy Initiative was founded in 2024 to close those gaps at both ends. We provide affordable, trauma-informed therapy on a sliding scale basis or through certain insurance plans. We aim to train and educate youth and young adults to lead in their own communities. We give helping professionals a place to be human. And we bring the whole community together with free events that are hosted with everyone in mind.
We believe that being heard is not a privilege. It is the beginning of healing.
What it costs here
Individual therapy session — $45
Group therapy session — $45
Family session — $60
Community events & resources — Free
Sliding scale available — just tell us at your consultation. You will never be asked to prove anything. BCBS, Aetna, and Cigna accepted.
Five programs, one mission
What we actually do.
Not what we aim to do one day — what is running now, across Pike County.
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Therapy · Individual, family, group
Quality Clinical Services
Affordable, trauma-informed therapy for survivors, kinship families, teens, and court-referred clients. Self Pay sessions start at $45 with a sliding scale offered. you never have to ask twice or prove anything. We accept some insurance as well.
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Ages 14–21 · Leadership & advocacy
Ambassadors/Youth Ambassadors Program
We train young people to lead in their own communities: advocacy skills, public speaking, mental health literacy, and a real project they design and run themselves.
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For clinicians & helping professionals
Peer Consulting Network
Off Script Round Tables and Elevate & Empower groups are two distinct spaces for individuals working in helping professions (Social Workers, Mental Health Professionals, First Responders, etc.)
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Free & low-cost group support
Community Support Groups
Support Groups will vary based on the expressed need of the community.
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Free and open to everyone
Social Justice Advocacy & Community Events
Community Field Day, resource drives, and local advocacy work. Free to attend, built for every resident in Pike County, and designed so nobody has to go looking for help alone.
Coming Spring 2027 · Pike County, Alabama
Community Field Day is coming back — and vendor and sponsor spots are open now.
A free day of games, food, live entertainment, and real community resources for every family in Pike County. We are finalizing the date now. Vendors, sponsors, and community organizations can lock in a spot today.
Be the first to know when the date is set.
We will send you the date the moment it is confirmed — plus vendor deadlines and sponsor opportunities.
Credentials
Doctor of Social Work (DSW)
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Alabama
Trauma-informed clinical practice
Court-referred and mandated client competence
WHO FOUNDED AAI
Chelsea Singleton, DSW, LICSW
I started The Amplified Advocacy Initiative in 2024 because I kept seeing how hard people had to work just to get help. As a social worker in schools, juvenile justice, and addiction recovery, I saw people trying to figure out who to call, what they could afford, and whether they’d be judged for asking. I also saw the people doing the helping stretch themselves thin, with few places to talk honestly about burnout or ask for support of their own.
This work is personal for me, too. As a kinship caregiver, I know how many questions come with stepping in to raise a child in your family. I think about the aunt trying to figure out what her nephew’s school needs from her or the grandparent looking for someone who understands what it’s like to raise a child again. I wanted families like ours to see themselves in the support available here in Pike County.
I believe everyone deserves to be heard and supported. To me, being heard means having a say in what happens next. I created AAI so we could listen to what people say they need, help them find support they can actually use, and work alongside them to change what made it so hard to get in the first place.
When someone in our community asks, “Where do I even start?” I want them to have a place to bring that question and someone willing to help them figure out the next step.
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