This report has been a labor of love, and one of grief. Leslie Adams, PhD, MPH and I take a deep dive into suicide risk factors impacting Black youth like institutional racism and gun violence. We share recommendations for advancing this work. Read the report here:publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/still-rin…

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

When resilience is not enough: Imagining novel approaches to supporting Black youth navigating racism | ✍🏽: Shawn C.T. Jones & squad - goo.gl/scholar/rdXAVZ #ScholarAlerts

Explore the Hopeful Futures Campaign: 2023 School Mental Health State Legislative Guide that was developed to provide legislators with practical policy recommendations to support student mental health. buff.ly/3PaMvfx #SchoolMentalHealth #Policy

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If equity and justice are not key components of our "supporting student mental health" approach, we have to ask ourselves which students we mean when we say "student mental health."

Why America Has a Youth Mental Health Crisis, and How Schools Can Help edweek.org/leadership/why…

Friends who live, work, or go to school in Everett, Malden, Charlestown, and East Boston please take our quick survey! Survey is available in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, & Haitian Creole). mysticriver.org/cleanair

Explore CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health’s new mental health action guide! It provides school leaders with 6 effective strategies for student #mentalhealth. Each strategy comes with detailed approaches and evidence-based examples. Don’t miss out on this valuable resource! 🏫💡

Today our comprehensive review of the social determinants of #mentalhealth was published in World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org World Psychiatry. Our piece reviews the current evidence on causes & prevention, & makes 7 recommendations framed around social justice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp… #sdoh

‼️Call for papers‼️ “Identifying Opportunities and Priorities in Youth Mental Health Disparities Research” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/2… Pls share! still not here Jesse Lopresti @JanelCubbage @pbaJackson Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, PhD 🇹🇹🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)

[New Report] Power in Our Truths: Three-quarters of Gen Z & Millennial Young People of Color Report COVID-Related Mental Health & Life Disruptions justiceandjoynatl.org/power-in-our-t…

New Pub Alert📣 “Seeing Black Girls in their Glory: Cultivating Spaces that Facilitate Black Girls’ Psychological Safety” is out! Thanks to my co-authors Seanna & @drjnicoleworld. Immense gratitude to Dr. Lauren Mims 👩🏾‍🚀 for creating these beautiful & intentional graphics! 💓

🔔FACT: Healthy, diverse communities thrive when everyone feels included, respected & safe. This guide provides actionable steps, information & practical lessons you can use to help young people resist manipulation & supremacist narratives: splcenter.org/peril-communit… #RefuseHate

Protect Queer and Trans Kids 💔⚡️

✨New Article✨ “Intersectionality & school racial climate to create schools as sites of fairness & liberation for Black girls” by: Dr. Charity Brown Griffin, NCSP, LP , myself, & JustSchoolPsychs The article is open access til April 30th! Cite Black Women. Black Women Education Leaders, Inc. 🔗: tinyurl.com/mvrmmv44

NEW PAPER. Our study of a yearlong racial justice program showed that educators of color not only shouldered a larger share of the burden in moving the initiative forward, but were also the target of the backlash among some of their white colleagues. 1/2

NATIONAL INSTITUTE of  MENTAL HEALTH Request for Information Moving beyond individual-level determinants of mental health to address mental health disparities Learn more here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n… Responses must be received by May 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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