May is Mental Health Awareness Month

State of Black America

This week, Joi Chaney, our Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, sits down with Dr. Michael Lindsey, Executive Director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University (NYU), the Constance and Martin Silver Professor of Poverty Studies at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow. He is also the incoming Dean of NYU Silver School of Social Work as of July 2022. Together, they unpack the stigma surrounding mental health in the Black community, how to identify signs of mental health issues in children and how we can do better at acknowledging these issues and seeking help when we or those in our community need it most. To read the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health recent report, Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America, click here: https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Full_Taskforce_Report.pdf Discussed in this episode: mental health, mental health awareness, mental health professionals, therapy, therapist, social work, counseling, treatment, medicine, Black men, Black America, African Americans, Race, Black Women, Black Families, State of Black America, For the Movement, National Urban League, Urban League Movement, Young Professionals Contact and Follow our Guest(s) on Twitter @DrMikeLindsey or visit https://socialwork.nyu.edu/faculty-and-research/our-faculty/michael-a-lindsey.html Contact and Follow the National Urban League at: Web: www.nul.orgEmail: [e-mail] Twitter and Instagram: @NULpolicy | @NatUrbanLeague Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NULPolicy |