A chat room at a community center becomes a safe space for Koreans and Korean Americans in Los Angeles to discuss their mental health struggles.
Healing California
The Center for Health Journalism has teamed with eight ethnic media organizations in California to report together on health equity, community well-being and gaps in health care in a unique collaborative learning effort.
Ethnic studies programs create pathways to mental health recovery for incarcerated Asian and Pacific Islanders by helping them connect to their history and identity.
Arturo is one of many formerly incarcerated individuals who navigate mental healthcare in and out of prison.
Clinical social worker LaVontae Hill found help for his mental health struggles due to OCD and anxiety but had to fight entrenched mental health stigma along the way.
In California, diagnosis of PPD has increased dramatically in Asian communities. Against a backdrop of high rates of C-section interventions, there are few culturally competent birthing and postpartum professionals, and lower awareness of how to access the resources that exist.
Hampered by lack of English proficiency, discrimination and immigration challenges, many immigrants use their mobile phones as a life line to stave off loneliness.
Arrests and court hearings are also facets of the criminal justice system that can have lasting effects on a person’s mental health.
The prevalence of suicide among Koreans is raising alarm. Research by the Korea Daily indicates that 2,353 Koreans took their own lives nationwide from 2011 to 2022.
Recent high-profile deaths have forced people to look at ways Blacks, particularly Black males, are suffering. Mental health is at the top of the list.