Diversity is not how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.
― Ola Joseph
The MFP is an initiative staffed by ANA with funding from SAMHSA, making fellowships available to ethnic and racial psychiatric nursing students who are enrolled full time in an accredited master’s/doctoral nursing program.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
Healing Historical Trauma (opens new window)
At age 6, Priscilla Agnes Morrisseau became number 332A. It was the identification assigned to the little girl when she arrived at St. Margaret’s Indian Residential School in 1953. Forcibly removed from her family home on the Couchiching First Nation reserve in Fort Frances, Ontario, by Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs, she spent the next five years at the school run by the Catholic Church. Read more (opens new window)
Survey finds racialized employees are less comfortable discussing mental health at work (opens new window)
Black, Latinx and Asian American-Pacific Islander employees feel less comfortable engaging in mental-health conversations in the workplace than their white colleagues, according to a new survey by the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Read more (opens new window)
Strategies to Promote the Advancement of Health Disparities Science infographic (PDF, 180 KB) (opens new window)
Health disparities are a substantial burden to society in terms of healthcare costs, lost productivity, and general societal well-being. In 2015, NIMHD began a visioning process to create a scientific vision that will transform minority health and health disparities research. Read more (opens new window)
Mistrust lingers in Black communities amid 988 launch (opens new window)
The 988 system builds on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, an existing network of over 200 crisis centers staffed by counselors who answer millions of calls annually — about 2.4 million in 2020. The line is designed to work like 911, but will connect callers with trained mental health counselors instead of police, firefighters or paramedics. The federal government has provided over $280 million for states to build up their systems. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas for being among the Integrative Medicine 4 the Underserved's (IM4US) experts to speak during one of their 2022 conference sessions, "Re-Building Black Utopias: Neighborhoods as Medicine."
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Congratulations to Dr. Azcon- Armstrong on starting a new position as Diversity and Equity Advisory Council Member at Nevada Donor Network, Inc.
About MFP
Funding for the MFP e-Newsletter was made possible (in part) by Grant Number 1H79SM080386-04 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written training materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
