BIPOC Mental Health Month
Observed each July and originally designated as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, BIPOC Mental Health Month highlights the unique mental health challenges and needs of historically disenfranchised or oppressed racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Black and Indigenous people and other people of color (BIPOC) experience a broad spectrum of ongoing discrimination, oppression, and inequity rooted in America’s colonialist history, all of which foster both collective and individual trauma in those communities.
Learn more from the resources and organizations below to promote BIPOC Mental Health, not only in July but all year long:
American Counseling Association
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Take a few minutes to reflect on the ways your work and life intersect with BIPOC Mental Health.
In what ways can I learn more about BIPOC Mental Health and support access to it?
How has access to mental healthcare changed my life?
What’s one thing I learned from reading the websites linked above that I didn’t know prior?
