Resources Archive - National Council for Mental Wellbeing

Resource Addressing Health Equity and Racial Justice

Jan 31, 2023

The National Council acknowledges that many of our country’s institutions were founded upon and continue to perpetuate systemic racism. Our health care system is no exception. It is rife with less obvious but deeply insidious examples of these inequities. We know that eliminating disparities will improve individual and community health,…

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Resource Public Safety-led Community-oriented Overdose Prevention Efforts (PS-COPE)

Dec 16, 2022

The PS-COPE Toolkit is a new approach to overdose prevention and response for Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) communities.

Substance Use CDC Resource

Resource Suicide in U.S. Black and African American Communities

Nov 22, 2022

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing is one of the leading voices ensuring access tohigh quality mental health and substance use services for all. We recognize that eliminatingdisparities and promoting health equity is central to achieving this goal. To that end, we partneredwith the newly established African American Behavioral…

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Resource View from the Field: Recruitment and Retention of African American Men in the Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce

Dec 20, 2022

The need for more African American male professionals within the mental health and substance use field is clear.

Equity Report