“With MACRO, we’re developing a model unique to Oakland that improves community safety and save more lives while allowing OPD to focus on and improve response...
What happened to living for the weekend? Where did hump day go? When will sports return? When will these kids return to school? Where can I...
In just a short period of about 4 months, the coronavirus became a worldwide pandemic affecting almost every country on the globe. The speed with which...
“People with serious mental illness who have family support usually do much better than people without it.” Over 10 years ago a top manager at Alameda...
Since the Association of Black Psychologists began 50 years ago, we have been working towards developing an understanding of the Black psyche. Defining mental/psychological, emotional, and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A graduate of Louisiana State University and Washington University in St. Louis, Shameka Mitchell Williams is a licensed clinical social worker who practices...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Shocked and saddened by what she was hearing in her classrooms when she worked as a substitute teacher a few years ago, freedom...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH), the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) announced a multi-year...
DAYTONA TIMES — The National Hook-Up of Black Women, Inc. (NHBW) was organized in 1974 during the fourth Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend in Washington, D.C.,...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — During the recent Labor Day Holiday Weekend, hundreds of Black men, from around the country and abroad, descended upon Miami, Florida with a...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — To promote mental health care among law enforcement, state Rep. Justin Slaughter, D-Chicago, supported legislation to raise awareness of common mental health issues...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — he billing for the Sistahs Soiree Brunch offered advance notice: “…be ready for some candid conversations.” With the Memphis Botanical Garden as the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It can become a bigger issue when it’s affecting your everyday life and you believe what you’re feeling is true. Anxiety, bi-polar disorder,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “And I hope to be tangible evidence for young girls and young boys and girls from communities of color that you can aspire...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher thinks that focusing so much attention on the endorsements misses the bigger news story — that for all the...
THE FLORIDA STAR — With drastic advances in technology and the overuse, and oftentimes misuse, of social media research indicates that heavy social media use may...
For several months last spring and summer, my teen daughter, Caroline, experienced near-daily bouts of depression and debilitating panic attacks. During those episodes, she became extremely...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a study published earlier this year by the American Psychiatry Association, Millennials were found to be the most anxious generation. Women reported...
The African American Family Outreach Project will present its third free workshop of 2019 with the focus on understanding serious mental illness, substance abuse disorders and...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Youth from six inner-city schools gathered at Los Angeles Trade-Tech College May 18 for the second annual Emerging Leaders Youth Summit as a...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — On Thursday, April 25th, Actor Bill Duke and Filmmaker William “Michael” Barbee attended the 23rd Annual Erasing the Stigma Leadership Awards at the...
DALLAS POST TRIBUNE — The European Parliament’s recent ban on single-use plastic products was hailed as a positive step in the world’s battle against climate change.Yet at the...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — Nigel Shelby killed himself after he was subjected to anti-gay bullying in Huntsville, Alabama, his family says. Shelby was 15 years old. The...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Systemic racism drives both poverty and the mass incarceration of low-income people, especially people of color. This cycle of poverty and criminal justice...
When family members face mental illness and or substance abuse in a loved one they are forced to learn things that are not taught in school....