Gather Around Series
Black and African Americans are historically under-served, over-diagnosed, and marginalized in mental health services. Services for treatment are frequently not as accessible as they are for others, in part due to cultural trauma of racial inequity and purposeful misinformation. Black and American families seek help more from informal support systems, such as religious organizations, schools, and friends. This can delay the time to needed mental health help.
The Gather Around Series was created by a Community Advisory Board in Washington State comprised of families with lived experiences, the YMCA, the NAACP, the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, and King County Mental Health to increase knowledge of and coping for psychosis in the African American and Black communities in a format that can be readily accessed and distributed in neighborhood locations. This work was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health Research Award (R34MH129332).
Gather Around Series – Take 5
Gather Around Series – What is Psychosis
Gather Around Series – Suicide Prevention
Gather Around Series – Black Men and Mental Health
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