Pro-Black Mental Health Services

What Our Program Offers 

Studies indicate the psychological effects of racism include post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of stress-related disorders. Due to race-based threats, Black families are reluctant to engage with services and avail of community resources mostly because many are part of a system that has been historically oppressive towards them

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We offer Pro-Black Mental Health Services (1-1 and group therapy) that:

• Validate the knowledge and experiences of Black people.

• Privilege Black people in social spaces.

• Use an intersectional lens that considers the different ways Black people have been harmed and the many ways they have overcome social barriers.

• Engage in culturally relevant and responsive ways.

• Offer an understanding of the Black experience as relevant to the prevention and treatment of mental health; and to the enactment of positive mental health as social justice.

• Actively address racism in all its forms against Black people and increase their capacity to successfully mitigate its impact.