Each week a quote is shared for your consideration. Some quotes might offer comfort, hope, a challenge, a chuckle, or inspiration. You may or may not agree with the quote, but it is offered simply to help you reflect and ponder.
There is no health without mental health.
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
Childhood Trauma Leaves Lasting Mental Scars on Women and Men Differently (opens new window)
A new study shows that men and women are affected differently by childhood trauma: women are more affected by childhood emotional trauma and sexual abuse, whereas men are more affected by childhood emotional and physical neglect. Lead researcher, Dr Thanavadee Prachason (from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands) said, “Our findings indicate that exposure to childhood maltreatment Read more (opens new window)
How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging and disease (opens new window)
In 2020, the overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.5 years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reduction wasn't shared equally among the general population; Native American people lost an average of 4.5 years of life expectancy; Black and Hispanic people lost, on average, 3 years, while white people lost only 1.2 years. Read more (opens new window)
Native Americans left out of 'deaths of despair' research (opens new window)
For more than a decade, Americans have been dying younger than people in other developed countries. Researchers attribute much of this rise in mid-life deaths to what are called "deaths of despair" — that is suicides, drug overdoses and deaths from alcoholic liver disease — among middle-aged white Americans. Read more (opens new window)
Black Nurses Are Traumatized by Racism in Healthcare (opens new window)
Being a Black nurse in America sometimes means caring for patients while protecting them from racism at the same time. This was the case for Naseema McElroy, a California-based labor and delivery nurse who demanded better care for Black moms and was fired shortly after. “Nobody’s going to change [the medical system] for us,” McElroy, 41, told Word In Black in a video interview. “We have to do it ourselves.” Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to Dr. Shaquita Starks on recently completing a project entitled “Disruptive and conduct disorder bias and the school to prison pipeline: Teaching creative arts interventions for BIPOC Youth” as one of Emory University’s Arts and Social Justice Fellows. Emory’s Arts and Social Justice Fellows are selected to create projects focused on “creative activism in the name of racial justice.” Dr Stark’s project is one of only 4 projects currently featured in an exhibit of the Fellows’ work at the Woodruff Library. Learn more about the project
here (opens new window)Congratulations to Dr. Patty Wilson on her recent publication titled, “Addressing health disparities of individuals experiencing homelessness in the U.S. with community institutional partnerships: An integrative review.” Learn more about the publication
here (opens new window)
Congratulations to Dr. Tanya Sorrell on advocating across the nation for life saving Narcan OTC on CBS National Evening News. Read more here (opens new window)
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Mental Health Trailblazers – Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! is the MFP/ANA podcast featuring the groundbreaking journeys of BIPOC psychiatric mental health nurses, in their quest to meet the urgent and unmet needs of under-represented communities in America.
Applications for our 2023-2024 cohort are now open! If you have ever considered earning a master’s or doctoral degree in psychiatric mental health nursing and identify as a member of an ethnic minority in the U.S., learn more about the MFP/ANA and apply today at
apply.emfp.org (opens new window).
We also invite you to join one of our upcoming Office Hours where team members will be available to answer any questions you might have regarding the application. You can register for one or more of the dates that best fit your schedule here (opens new window):
The following may be of interest to you:
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities: "Inclusive Participation in Clinical Research Workshop."
• Mental Health America & the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): "Meeting the mental health needs of youth before crisis: Utilizing warmlines"
About MFP
Funding for the MFP e-Newsletter was made possible (in part) by Grant Number 1H79SM080386-05 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.
