OSHN program encouraging Louisville males of colour to get free psychological well being assist in October | Information

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville’s Workplace for Protected and Wholesome Neighborhoods is encouraging males of colour to get psychological well being assist in October.

OSHN’s Trauma Resilient Communities initiative is providing free counseling for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous males affected by “psychological misery attributable to each day publicity to environmental violence, poverty and racial injustice,” in keeping with a information launch from OSHN on Friday.

“Nationwide and native findings have proven that males of colour are considerably extra seemingly than white males to report feeling nugatory and of getting no hope for getting their lives higher,” Nannette Dix, TRC’s program supervisor at OSHN, mentioned within the launch, including that “cultural stigmas of hyper-masculine beliefs typically permeate males of colour from searching for assist, along with the distrust of suppliers, or the dearth of culturally knowledgeable care.”

The group mentioned 2020-21 regional statistics, the newest from the Jefferson County Coroner’s Workplace, present the native suicide for Black males beneath the age of 25 make up 28% of all suicides within the county. Hispanic males of the identical age group make up 8% and Indigenous males’ make up 4%.

Dix mentioned the objective is to “treatment an unmet want” with the counseling providers. TRC was chosen to obtain $25,000 in American Rescue Funds authorized by Metro Council “due to its specialty of counseling for racial trauma.”

Counseling is obtainable in particular person or over the cellphone. To schedule, name TRC’s 24-hour scheduling line at (502) 901-0100. 

OSHN mentioned indicators with the scheduling quantity have been positioned on billboards across the metropolis and at bus cease shelters in areas with the next focus of poverty and violence. 

Officers mentioned TRC’s providers can be found to all Louisville residents who want psychological well being assist for “misery attributable to racial, civic unrest, home and sexual trauma.”

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