For Black people, finding a competent mental health care provider who looks like them is an arduous task. Two Black mental health professionals offer advice and resources on where (and how) to turn for help in L.A.
“Black Mental Health: Changing the Narrative.”
“It’s going to take a Black person to talk to a Black person about healing, from our Black experience,” Fields said. “Nobody outside of us can do that. We would never trust it. You have to give Black communities the ability to build a system that people see they can trust.”It is widely thought that a holistic approach to healing in the Black community is needed.
The mission: to remove the barriers that Black people experience when trying to get access to or staying connected with emotional healthcare and healing through education, training, advocacy and the creative arts, and BEAM offers a variety of programs.
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