With a waiting list for Florida mental health facilities, a state debate is emerging on whether illegal immigrants should have the same rights to public... Read More
Depression is a serious problem among ethnic elders who are often less likely than white seniors to get appropriate and effective treatment. Poverty, lack of... Read More
Immigrants to the U.S. may face an increased risk of depression if they feel they've lost the social standing they once had in their native... Read More
Public Agenda's phone survey of more than 1100 US immigrants captures immigrant perspectives on a tumultuous period in history. This follow-up to a 2002 survey... Read More
For more than a generation now, we in the West have aggressively spread our modern knowledge of mental illness around the world. We have done... Read More
“Officials, some of them still on the job, used their role as overseers to cover up evidence of mistreatment of immigrants in federal custody.” Nina... Read More
Recently obtained documents shed light on immigrant deaths that occurred while immigrants were held in detention. They foreshadow later ones that galvanized public attention. Nina... Read More
Awards of $5,000 will be given to individual professionals, mental health
programs, and organizations working to raise awareness of mental illness in
underserved minority communities....Brochure, instructions and... Read More
Most depressed adults in the United States don't get the minimum
recommended treatment, and the vacuum is especially dramatic among
minority populations. . . [O]ne in five... Read More
Because students in adult English class are very diverse (including men and women,
young and old, religious and non-religious, et cetera) and because discussing
issues of sexuality... Read More
Saeed Fahia and Zuhur Ahmed, Somali community leaders in the Twin Cities, talk to host Mike Wassensaar on the St. Paul Forum about making the... View Video
Dr. Astride Desrosiers speaks at a conference in Cambridge Massachusetts in November of 2008 about mental health issues in the Haitian community. In October 2009,... Read More
One in seven Latina teens attempts suicide, according to the CDC.
Mother-daughter conflict drives many Latinas to the brink, psychologist Luis Zayas, a psychologist at... Read More
The Egal Shidad Project team is deep in the production process for its upcoming program on sexually transmitted diseases. You will hear from renowned Somali... Read More
“People who followed the Mediterranean diet, an eating regimen that is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish and nuts, were less likely to develop... Read More
“Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness,” a program that will be broadcast in early October, zeros in on wrenching situations playing out every day... Read More
At a Wednesday, September 23 press conference, Senator Loni Hancock (D-Oakland), California State Senate, Jane Garcia, CEO, La Clinica de La Raza, Dr. Sang-Ick Chang,... Read More
"Dr. Giang T. Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania [and New Routes Leader] talks... Read More
The NCMHD website provides a listing of upcoming conferences related to various health equity and community participatory research issues. Read More
On any given day, Immigration Judge Dana Leigh Marks can find herself listening to a wrenching tale of an immigrant seeking asylum, fearing everything from... Read More
(RADIO NOVELA IS IN SPANISH... FOR NOW) Miguel is a high school student that is overweight and dates Rosy, a girl who cares a lot... Listen to Audio
Miguel es un joven de preparatoria que padece de sobrepeso y empieza a salir con Rosy, una joven que pone énfasis en la apariencia física,... Listen to Audio
Perched at the edge of an exam table, Delmira Maravilla is anxious for a check-up—and for a timeline on the president's promise of health care... Read More
Olga tells of her loss of profession and her isolation when she first was brought to the US by her husband. She didn't give up--when... View Video
Here is an excerpt from blog by Abdulkadir Khalif, contributing editor for Age of Autism, about the Somali delegation to the Autism One 2009 conference... Read More
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