Mapu Maia Clinic

Grantee: UTOPIA Washington
Timeframe: July 2023 – June 2026 | Amount: $574,962.50

• Year 1: July 2023 – June 2024. Amount: $174,962.50
• Year 2: July 2024 – June 2025. Amount: $200,000
• Year 3: July 2025 – June 2026. Amount: $200,000

UTOPIA WA’s Mapu Maia Clinic understands that true wrap-around care must honor the full spectrum of identities people hold. For transgender and gender-diverse communities, especially Queer and Trans Pacific Islanders (QTPI), the current political climate has compounded long-standing discrimination, resulting in isolation, housing and employment insecurity, and serious health disparities. Many queer and trans youth, particularly those pushed into survival sex work, face chronic health and safety risks, with limited access to affirming care like hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgery.

Pacific Islanders also experience significant health disparities, including elevated rates of chronic illness, mental health challenges, and barriers to accessing health insurance or care—especially for immigrants and those in precarious employment. With few culturally relevant healthcare options available, UTOPIA serves as a sanctuary and trusted resource for QTPI individuals across the region.

Through its Mapu Maia Clinic, UTOPIA partners with HealthPoint and Swedish Medical Group to provide free, culturally grounded primary and preventative care, including HIV/STI screening, gender-affirming services, and wraparound support like case management, housing navigation, food access, and peer groups. The clinic is fully licensed and aims to operate 5–6 days per week to meet growing community needs.

This funding supports critical areas of clinic development:

• Sustaining and expanding medical staffing, including a full-time nurse and volunteer medical directors

• Building a culturally informed provider network and lab partnerships for in-clinic services

• Launching regular weekly clinical hours with onsite providers

• Enhancing case management, patient communications, and service coordination

• Providing robust language access and translation services in Pacific Islander languages (e.g., Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Chuukese, Marshallese)

UTOPIA’s deep-rooted community trust and cultural alignment are foundational to Mapu Maia’s ability to increase healthcare access, improve health outcomes, and affirm the dignity and resilience of the QTPI community.

ABOUT OUR GRANTEE

UTOPIA Washington

Mission: UTOPIA is actively replacing systems of oppression with ecosystems of care and safety for all communities through Black and Brown organizing, prioritizing land and bodily autonomy, and reclaiming our
cultural narratives.

Vision: A world of abundance, autonomy, and harmony, where all forms of supremacy cease to exist for all life.