Mental Health and Wellness
Columbia College and also The New York City Town library have introduced a public health and wellness initiative– in collaboration with the National Black Management Compensation on Wellness (Black Health And Wellness)– to bring complimentary education and learning and sources to New York City citizens who deal with absence of accessibility and also cultural barriers to behavioral health treatment.
The Community Mental Health Project, supported by the Leon Levy Foundation, aims to lower the distress as well as injury in the city’s racially and also ethnically diverse neighborhoods that have actually birthed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The effort include collection of animated video clips concentrating on mental health wellness and self-care. The topics attend to psychological health concerns identified in discussions with neighborhood participants, varying from mental disease and also addiction to stigma in seeking treatment and care.
Keep in mind: Resources based on input from teens, young grownups, and elders in communities considerably affected by health differences and the pandemic.
Columbia Psychiatry: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/
Black Health: https://nblch.org/
Community Mental Health Project: https://nblch.org/what-we-do/health-areas-of-focus/mental-health/community-mental-health-project/
The New York Public Library: https://www.nypl.org/
Leon Levy Foundation: https://www.leonlevyfoundation.org/