Should We Trust You? Strategies to Improve Access to Mental Healthcare to BIPOC Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities have weathered centuries of racism, causing transgenerational mental health consequences and hindering access to quality treatment. In this commentary, we describe the systemic challenges of engaging BIPOC to promote mental health equity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We then describe an initiative that illustrates these strategies, provide recommendations and further readings for academic institutions seeking to partner with community organizations to provide equitable mental health services to populations that have been traditionally overlooked.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Community mental health journal

• Publication date

  2023-05-03

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s10597-023-01124-yPMID 37133709PMCID 10155669
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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