Black children and children of color make up nearly 75% of children on Medi-Cal, yet they face significant barriers to accessing mental health services. Despite an...
SAN DIEGO VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — Having culturally competent care — clinicians intimately familiar with the lived experiences of historically disadvantaged groups — is essential for...
Review - "If I had it my way, I would have been a 20-year major leaguer going to the Hall of Fame. Obviously, my calling was...
At a press conference in downtown Oakland on Jan. 29, Attorney General Rob Bonta joined Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) to announce...
Well into his twenties, Joe Wallace was asked to sit with his "Granddaddy Joe" while Wallace's mother and grandmother ran errands. His grandfather was once a...
The COVID-19 pandemic put an extra strain on Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) healthcare workers. Over half of all clinicians grapple with burnout...
Zoleka Mandela, granddaughter of the South African martyr and its first democratically elected president, died on Sept. 25 after an 11-year battle with cancer. She was...
Dallas Weekly News — Despite taking the same risk of death and costly sacrifice to their mental well-being, Black Veterans continue to suffer as mental health...
Losing income is the No. 1 reason Californians end up homeless -- and the vast majority of them say a subsidy of as little as $300...
As Father’s Day is upon us, three Black clergymen have published a book of prayers that have worked for them as they navigated the many challenges...
Although California Senate Bill 357 was intended to alleviate arrests of willing sex workers under anti-loitering laws, it opened up a Pandora’s box loophole that hinders...
TEXS METRO NEWS — The study by Leone et al., published in the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health’s Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,...
Recently, I received a powerful spiritual anti-cancer turtle medicine bag medallion and rope necklace from Chief Gordon Plain Bull Jr., a member of the Assiniboine and...
Filipinos weren’t enslaved, but as colonized people the tens of thousands who came as laborers were convenient replacements to come and work the agricultural fields of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Your goal is to get better: Concentrate on how you can face your fears and anxieties. Don’t waste your time arguing with your...
SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — Doing a kind gesture for another person can protect the mind and body, but simply witnessing the act is enough to activate the production...
“The course of this pandemic has revealed the large number of County residents who are living on the brink of the financial crisis, with insufficient savings...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Beginning in August, the Department of Education plans to start the process to disburse the nearly $300 million Congress appropriated through both the...
The number “9-8-8 is now active across the United States. This new, shorter phone number will make it easier for people to remember and access mental...
Basquiat often said that he “felt friendless and misunderstood.” After his parents separated, Gerard moved with his children to Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood. When he was...
“For every parent like me who is anxiously watching their children grow older in the digital world, there are millions of others whose teens (and often,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — At the Dallas Police Department/Korean American Safety Town Hall Meeting on Monday night, you didn’t have to speak the language to know the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In an article done by the World Economic Forum, Vanita Sundaram stated that among the young people she spoke to about whether or...
Michelle Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association (CBHDA), spotlighted the health needs of minority youth. She explained that all over the nation...
These depressing findings were recorded in a poll conducted by the Jobs and Housing Coalition (JHC) between October 16 and 18. They mark an all-time high...