TLC: Overlooked and underserved: Why mental health access is needed for men of color in higher education

Start Date

January 18, 2022

End Date

January 18, 2022

Start Time

3:00 pm

End Time

4:00 pm

Location

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Presented by Alicia Freeman
The more that systems, programs, and providers find culturally relevant ways to foster Black men’s mental health including directly addressing racial trauma and its effects the more society will benefit, added Wizdom Powell, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut and director of the university’s Health Disparities Institute. 

“Interventions shouldn’t be just about healing and restoring Black men, though that would be enough,” she said. “We also need to think about how much talent we’re hemorrhaging” by not providing Black men with the proper support. “Think of all the innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and physicians there would be if Black men weren’t being killed with impunity by police officers and if we were creating spaces for them to heal, grow, and thrive.” 

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