"Ours is a city violence and lack of opportunity feed off one another to produce poor mental health," Jessica Smith writes in the Baltimore Banner.
And that's why, when it comes to mental health, "we seldom consider whether mental health resources are culturally competent enough."
That's why, when it comes to African-Americans in Baltimore, "the gap between faith-based institutions and social-based institutions where people go to both friends and family...
isn't necessarily trained to support people with mental health conditions."
And that's why, when it comes to mental health, "the pressure builds until it explodes, either as violence or violence-related illnesses such as stress-related illnesses such as high blood pressure, heart attack or stroke, lower the cost of care and increase its accessibility," writes Smith, who has founded the Mental Health Emergency Fund to help people who can't afford mental health care pay for it.
"When people trust their providers and feel seen by them, they're more likely to keep appointments, follow treatment plans, and stick with things when the going gets tough," says Baltimore therapist Candra Jackson.
"This minimizes the time a therapist has to spend breaking down walls of misunderstanding and apprehension which people have built over generations
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