Mental Health – Page 3 – Collective For Health Equity

Moving from Crisis Toward Opportunity: Framing Social Media and Youth Mental Health

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This playbook provides practical, research-based guidance for shifting the conversation about social media and adolescent mental health. It draws on FrameWorks’ in-depth and ongoing framing research on how advocates, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can move away from unproductive crisis narratives and instead use framing strategies that highlight opportunity, agency, and collective responsibility.

It also offers specific guidance for speaking to parents in ways that avoid blame and shame and instead emphasize their expertise and partnership with practitioners.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care: Findings from the KFF Survey of Racism, Discrimination and Health

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This report examines racial and ethnic differences in mental health needs, access to services, treatment experiences, and perceived helpfulness using findings from a nationally representative survey.

KĪPUKA O KE OLA

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KOKO provides cultural, spiritual, medical, and psychological services to all residents of North Hawaiʻi with a special emphasis for the Kānaka Maoli. This mission is its kuleana. It serves communities in Hawaii.

Administration for Native Americans (ANA)

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The Administration for Native Americans provides grants and technical assistance that support Native communities’ self-sufficiency, cultural preservation, and locally defined goals. It serves communities across the United States, U.S. territories, and freely associated states and Hawai‘i.

WestCare Pacific Islands (WPI)

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WestCare Pacific Islands provides accessible, high-quality behavioral health and human services to individuals, families, and communities in need. It serves communities across the United States, U.S. territories, and freely associated states, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and communities outside the United States and its territories.

Wellcome Trust

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Wellcome Trust supports research, partnerships, public engagement, and advocacy around the world to advance science and address major health challenges. It serves communities outside the United States and its territories.

JED Foundation

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The JED Foundation strengthens mental health and suicide-prevention systems for teens and young adults in schools and communities across the United States. It serves communities across the United States, U.S. territories, and freely associated states.

The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project

By wp-admin July 22, 2026

The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project (BCSCP) is a prevention program, which aims to limit and reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. The program is designed to assist African-American women ages 18 and older to become more knowledgeable about mental illness, reduce stigma, understand what constitutes good mental health, root causes of mental illness, and strategies for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It addresses the Phase 1 priority population strategy: providing insight into mental health topics among African-American women in selected faith-based churches.

Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity

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The Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity (TRIBE) Program is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent or intervene in the early onset of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) for foster and adjudicated AA male youth. The CDEP does this by increasing resiliency through skills building, identity development, peer support and mentoring, opening the aperture to higher education, and widening the access to mental health services. Utilizing an ecological approach and brain-based learning, the TRIBE CDEP is designed to address Phase 1 priority population strategy of building on community strengths and demonstrably improving the quality of mental health services by providing services that are culturally congruent, sensitive and competent. The program outcome measures will be, decrease the risks for skid row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, anxiety, and reactivity. Additionally, the CDEP anticipates increases in adaptability, self-efficacy, and social connectivity.

Experience Hope for Teens

By wp-admin July 22, 2026

Experience Hope for Teens is a school-based intervention that aims to prevent and reduce trauma-
related behavior problems for African American students by increasing their access to trauma-informed
services, increasing school capacity to respond in a non-punitive, healing-focused and restorative
manner to trauma-related behavior, and decreasing students’ trauma symptoms, such as Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, dissociation, internalizing, externalizing, and complicated
grief reactions. This Community Defined Evidence Program (CDEP) is designed to create culturally-
responsive places of healing in the African American community.