PROJECT LETS RESOURCE

Race and Mental Health

Source: American Psychiatric Association

Resources & Information for Racialized Communities

BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 

• Primer: African-American Communities and Mental Health

• Therapy for Black Girls (Download a PDF 'Notes' version of Dr. Joy's Racism and Mental Health podcast.) 

• Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)

• Harriet's Apothecary: Harriet’s Apothecary is an intergenerational, healing village led by the brilliance and wisdom of Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, health professionals, magicians, activists and ancestors. 

• Bassey: Bassey is a writer, activist, and advocate for people of color who live with mental illnesses. She speaks openly about her Bi-Polar II diagnosis, and is the founder of The Siwe Project, “a global non-profit dedicated to promoting mental health awareness throughout the global Black community.” The organization founded #NoShameDay, observed this year on July 6 thousands of participants, including the founder of Gradient Lair, who published this powerful piece about the initiative and her reasons for taking part.

• Black Girls Cut Too: Self-harm and Generational Pain in the African-American Community

• Black Disabled Woman Syllabus

• Association of Black Psychologists

• The Harriet Tubman Collective: A Collective of Black Deaf & Disabled organizers, community builders, activists, dreamers, lovers striving for radical inclusion and collective liberation.

ASIAN AMERICAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES

• Mental Health America: Background Information

• Asian American Tarot Cards (from Open in Emergency)

• National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association

• New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health

• Asian Community Mental Health Services (Oakland)

• Asian LifeNet Hotline (1-877-990-8585): Help is available 24 hours a day. Languages offered include: Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Fujianese.

• Young Asian American Women: Under Double Pressure by Kristy Soyeon Kim (Page 9)

• Why is the New York Times Rendering the Suicide Deaths of Asian American Students Invisible?

• How to Choose Your Therapist

• Hyphen: Mental Health Resource Guide

• Thick Dumpling Skin

• AAPI Voices

• Asian American Recovery Services (California)

• Asian Community Health Services Directory
   

ALASKA NATIVE AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

• Mental Health America: Background Information

• Queer Indigenous Girl

• How the US Mental Health System Makes Natives Sick and Suicidal

• Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium: Behavioral Health

• Alaska Native Medical Center: Treatment Guidelines

LATINX COMMUNITIES

• Mental Health America: Background Information

• 5 Myths that Hold Up Mental Health Stigma in Latinx Communities

• Answers from my ancestors: A journey of learning to love

• National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health

• Comunilife (Serving New York)

• Latina teens have the highest rate of suicide attempts in the US

• It’s time to address the Latina teen suicide epidemic

• Nalgona Positivity Pride

• A List of Organizations Providing Resources & Safe Spaces for the Latinx LGBTQ Community

WHITE PEOPLE

• Wildbody Somatics

• Susan Raffo’s work

• Notes for Mentally Ill White Folks (racism is not excused by mental illness) 

• Stop Weaponizing Mental Health for Your Anti-Blackness

• How to Talk to Other Whites About Racism: A transcribed webinar by Beth Berila