Thoughts on Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

The National Alliance on Mental Illness has declared July to be Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. For African Americans in particular, a growing chorus of experts is sounding a clarion call on mental health, and urging black communities to the same sort...

National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

In 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives declared July as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in honor and remembrance of author and advocate Bebe Moore Campbell. Mrs. Campbell, who passed away in 2006, was the co-founder of NAMI Urban Los Angeles. While...