Why An Afro-centric,WHOLE Community Approach?

The Black Mental Health Task Force is advocating for more community based organizations and leaders, peer and professional alike, of Black and African heritage to be empowered, funded and coached toward being agents of change on the social justice landscape of healthcare and education. Most of our parallel coalitions in the mental health sphere operate as a directory to increase access to services provided by Culturally inclusive practitioners and/or act as a conduit for resource provision. We support that type of outreach, but we also seek to engage more collaboratively with all persons impacted by mental illness and the lack of access to resources that might alleviate symptoms; and that includes the client, the service providers themselves and the contracting organizations and funders.

We seek to encourage funding and researching that collaborative care perspective; in addition to using our coalition to aim focus on task oriented action plans and implementation of collaborative strategies within grassroots organizations dedicated to healing communities.