July is BIPOC Mental Health Month
July 1, 2021
Formally Minority Mental Health Month, Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month honors and supports the needs of Black, Indigenious, and People of Color (BIPOC).
The 2021 theme of BIPOC month designated by Mental Health America is Strength In Communities.
Strength in Communities highlights alternative mental health supports created by BIPOC and queer and trans BIPOC (QTBIPOC).
MHA focuses on three topic areas: community care, self-directed care, and cultural care and why these types of care are valid and valuable choices people can make for their mental health.
- Community care refers to ways in which communities of color have provided support to each other. This can include things such as mutual aid, peer support, and healing circles.
- Self-directed care is an innovative practice that emphasizes that people with mental health and substance use conditions, or their representatives if applicable, have decision-making authority over services they receive.
- Cultural care refers to practices that are embedded in cultures that are passed down through generations that naturally provide resiliency and healing.
Learn more and join in on the cause at: https://www.mhanational.org/BIPOC-mental-health-month
Children’s Advantage is honored to spread the message of Strength in Communities and support BIPOC mental health initiatives.
