Commentary: Minority Mental Health Month highlights urgent need

Commentary: Minority Mental Health Month highlights urgent need
Posted on Jul 10 2016
Greenville Online (South Carolina)
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NAMI and Alpha Kappa Alpha chapters natiowide are working together to increase mental health awareness in the African American community. African Americans comprise 12 percent of the population — the second-largest ethnic minority group in the United States — but they often receive disproportionately less and lower quality care than other communities for both medical and mental health services