mental health

This Sunday, DeeDee’s Cry, a Boston-based organization dedicated to creating safe spaces for conversations about mental health, depression, and suicide prevention in communities of color, will host its annual toy giveaway for the fifth consecutive year in partnership with the Roxbury Unity Parade.

Black Bostonians are much more likely to have health care providers try to involuntarily hospitalize them amid mental health emergencies, according to a new study out this month.

In the nation’s capital, Wards 7 and 8, where health inequities are widespread, a psychopharmacologist is piloting a mental health-coaching virtual platform called “Your Mind Our Business.” It flips the familiar phrase “mind your business” on its head to address a critical issue in Black and brown communities: mental health.

For Black Americans, mental well-being is always complicated by racism, which has been identified as a public health threat. And few venues present more complexity and angst for Black individuals, women and marginalized groups than the workplace

The world has faced a dissemblance of normal life in recent years, and whether you have been directly or indirectly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, chances are high your stress levels are increased.

So many of us credit our success and accomplishments in life to someone who showed up when no one else could, someone who believed in us against the odds. Couldn’t that force be transformative in the life of a child facing an uphill battle to succeeding and thriving in their school and community?

For community health workers and staff at The Family Van, a Boston-area mobile health clinic, there’s magic in connecting with community members to offer and something special in the simple questions like, “How are you?”

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A new initiative from the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts aims to increase access to mental health services for Black men, a group often left out of behavioral healthcare.

It was once taboo for athletes to discuss their struggles with mental health for fear that they might be banished.

In “Next to Normal” at Central Square Theater, a picture-perfect Black family gets ready for their day. Mom makes lunch, dad prepares for his workday as an architect, and two clever teens assemble their school supplies. But the picture, and the audience’s understanding of it, begins to crack as Mom’s bipolar disorder seeps into their daily routines and emotions.

For Black communities, and especially Black men, mental health can often be a taboo subject, but actor Courtney Vance is fighting to bring the issue out of the shadows.