Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations

Dr. Alfiee M. Breland-Noble is an internationally recognized scientist, author, media personality and speaker. With a primary focus on teens, college students, families and communities of color, she is recognized for her remarkable ability to motivate and inspire by translating complex scientific concepts (developed via her 20+ years of research leadership in Research 1 institutions) into everyday language. As Founder and Board President of the AAKOMA Project, Inc. (initially an academic psychiatry research lab; now a 501©(3) nonprofit), Dr. Breland-Noble and her team have built a research enterprise founded on the science of adolescent and community engagement. She was part of the senior leadership team with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and the Congressional Black Caucus on the report Ring the Alarm and the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act of 2019. Her academic publications and presentations reflect her commitment to a culturally relevant, patient centered approach to reducing mental health disparities. Her research interests include increasing mental health treatment use by African American youth, youth of color, families and communities, suicide prevention, mental health equity and stigma reduction, depressive disorders, mental illness and improving treatments for all youth. Dr. Breland-Noble trained at Howard University, New York University, the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the Duke University School of Medicine.

"This book is useful for academics, practitioners, researchers, community activists, and mental health workers in various fields. Similar books regarding health disparities such as Patient-Centered Clinical Care for African Americans: A Concise, Evidence-Based Guide to Important Differences and Better Outcomes, Hall (Springer, 2020) are identified. However, this book is written from a scholarly-clinical perspective and more useful to academics or researchers seeking to improve upon access and quality of mental health services for people of color." --© Doody’s Review Service, 2021, Rachel S Simmons, PhD, reviewer, expert opinion"This book is useful for academics, practitioners, researchers, community activists, and mental health workers in various fields. Similar books regarding health disparities such as Patient-Centered Clinical Care for African Americans: A Concise, Evidence-Based Guide to Important Differences and Better Outcomes, Hall (Springer, 2020) are identified. However, this book is written from a scholarly-clinical perspective and more useful to academics or researchers seeking to improve upon access and quality of mental health services for people of color." --Doody

• 1. IntroductionAlfiee M. Breland-Noble2. Addressing Latinx mental healthcare disparities with community engagementJuan Ignacio Prandoni, Monica Perez Jolles and Gabriela Livas Stein3. Engaging parents to promote mental health among Chinese American youthCixin Wang, Jia Li Liu, Kieu Anh Do, Xiaoping Shao and Huixing Lu4. Community-engaged research to address mental health disparities in American Indian/Alaska Native populationsAmy E. West, Angela L. Walden, Forrest Bruce, Melissa L. Walls, Michelle Sarche, Doris Isham, Julie Yaekel-Black Elk and Nancy Whitesell5. Faith-based mental health promotion: strategic partnership development of a Black faith community-academic pilot project Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, Michele Wong, Camelia A. Harb, Jessica Jackson, Mary Carter-Williams and Cindy Harding6. Arab American youth: considerations for mental health and community engagement Hanan Hashem, Ashley Bennett and Germine H. Awad7. Engaging diverse patients, families, and communities as partners in community mental health disparities research: lessons learned from inclusion of Mexican immigrants in the Central New Jersey Partnership to Improve Perinatal Depression Care Jeanette Valentine, PhD, Mary O’Dowd, MPH, Rebecca Temkin, Teresa Vivar, Katherine Schertz, Charlotte Feeney, MSN, Mariela Flores, Maria Vivar and Gloria Bachmann, MDIntroduction 1628. Patient and community engagement for mental health disparities in Latinx youth immigrant populations: the Fuerte program William Martinez, Divya Chhabra, Peter Cooch, Heyman Oo, Holly Vo, Angelina Romano, Farahnaz Farahmand, Maximilian Rocha, Rob´an San Miguel, Marisol Romero, Alex Quintanilla and Ryan Matlow