Toolkit to Empower Communities to Advocate for Mental Health

Community Impact: Toolkit

How to empower communities to advocate for mental health:

This toolkit to empower communities to advocate can be used to develop a framework to equitably empower informal leaders and culture bearers to increase community capacity to connect to formalized mental health support structures.

For more information, visit: emPOWER NOLA

Toolkit to Empower Communities to Advocate for Themselves and Their Children’s Mental Health

Click the link below to view or download the toolkit:

Toolkit-for-Empowering-Communities-to-Advocate-for-Themselves-and-Their-Childrens-Mental-Health.pdf

Project

Training Community Leadership of Naturally Occurring Social Networks to Improve Access of Children Suffering from Trauma to Mental Health Services

Cohort

2020-2023

Focus Areas

Behavioral and Mental Health
Social Determinants of Health
Violence & Trauma

Team Members

Rhonda M. Jackson, LMSW
Arnold H. James, PhD
Maurice Sholas, MD, PhD
Lauren Teverbaugh, MD

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana