On April 30, @RepBonnie launched the CBC Emergency Taskforce on Youth Suicide and Mental Health to address the trauma kids of color face: racial stigmas, poverty, gender identity and more.
Over 8 months, the taskforce has held forums, events and meetings to identify the contributing factors to this crisis, and ways to stop it. Today, the taskforce releases its report, along with legislation that will help save lives.
The taskforce was aided by a working group comprised of mental health professionals, advocates, and academics. Annelle Primm, M.D., MPH, Senior Medical Director, represented the Steve Fund on the working group.
Read the report.
It was an honor to represent the Steve Fund on the workgroup that developed the report and to have worked with the CBC Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health to address this issue.
By Michael A. Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH, Executive Director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policyand Research at New York University Amid all the recent headlines about suicidal behavior among young
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Task Force workgroup on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health on which The Steve Fund is represented led a study on suicide and
Every September we observe Suicide Prevention Month. It is a time to learn as much as we can about this alarming public health issue—most often related to mental illness. And it is also
Our Mission: Promoting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color
