Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations summarizes research on reducing mental health disparities in underserved populations through community engagement programs. It discusses the efficacy of such programs with specific populations of people of color and cultures, for specific disorders, and via specific communities. It identifies how and why community engagement works with these populations, how best to set up new community programs, the steps and stakeholders to success, and includes case studies showing successes and the challenges involved.

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Dr. Alfiee M. Breland-Noble is an internationally recognized scientist, author, media personality and speaker. With a primary focus on teens, college students, families and communities of color, she is recognized for her remarkable ability to motivate and inspire by translating complex scientific concepts (developed via her 20+ years of research leadership in Research 1 institutions) into everyday language. As Founder and Board President of the AAKOMA Project, Inc. (initially an academic psychiatry research lab; now a 501©(3) nonprofit), Dr. Breland-Noble and her team have built a research enterprise founded on the science of adolescent and community engagement. She was part of the senior leadership team with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and the Congressional Black Caucus on the report Ring the Alarm and the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act of 2019. Her academic publications and presentations reflect her commitment to a culturally relevant, patient centered approach to reducing mental health disparities. Her research interests include increasing mental health treatment use by African American youth, youth of color, families and communities, suicide prevention, mental health equity and stigma reduction, depressive disorders, mental illness and improving treatments for all youth. Dr. Breland-Noble trained at Howard University, New York University, the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the Duke University School of Medicine.

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1. Introduction
   Alfiee M. Breland-Noble
2. Addressing Latinx mental healthcare disparities with community engagement
   Juan Ignacio Prandoni, Monica Perez Jolles and Gabriela Livas Stein
3. Engaging parents to promote mental health among Chinese American youth
   Cixin Wang, Jia Li Liu, Kieu Anh Do, Xiaoping Shao and Huixing Lu
4. Community-engaged research to address mental health disparities in American Indian/Alaska Native populations
   Amy E. West, Angela L. Walden, Forrest Bruce, Melissa L. Walls, Michelle Sarche, Doris Isham, Julie Yaekel-Black Elk and Nancy Whitesell
5. Faith-based mental health promotion: strategic partnership development of a Black faith community-academic pilot project
   Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, Michele Wong, Camelia A. Harb, Jessica Jackson, Mary Carter-Williams and Cindy Harding
6. Arab American youth: considerations for mental health and community engagement
   Hanan Hashem, Ashley Bennett and Germine H. Awad
7. Engaging diverse patients, families, and communities as partners in community mental health disparities research: lessons learned from inclusion of Mexican immigrants in the Central New Jersey Partnership to Improve Perinatal Depression Care
   Jeanette Valentine, PhD, Mary O'Dowd, MPH, Rebecca Temkin, Teresa Vivar, Katherine Schertz, Charlotte Feeney, MSN, Mariela Flores, Maria Vivar and Gloria Bachmann, MD
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8. Patient and community engagement for mental health disparities in Latinx youth immigrant populations: the Fuerte program
   William Martinez, Divya Chhabra, Peter Cooch, Heyman Oo, Holly Vo, Angelina Romano, Farahnaz Farahmand, Maximilian Rocha, Rob´an San Miguel, Marisol Romero, Alex Quintanilla and Ryan Matlow