Commentary: Minority Mental Health Month highlights urgent need | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

Commentary: Minority Mental Health Month highlights urgent need

Posted on July 10, 2016

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

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