Commentary: Purple Couch Therapy's Jessica Reynolds explains how San Antonio’s struggles with mental illness are tied to its history of oppression.
before or during the pandemic. Per the CDC, “experiences of racism among youth have been linked to poor mental health, academic performance, and lifelong health risk behaviors.” But how often do we address San Antonio’s racist founding as a community?
As social workers and therapists, global leaders in our field show us real ways forward, ways to help everyone in our city grow and thrive. First and most obviously, that we can actually provide mental health services to those in need. American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated for mental health is designed to help provide access to mental health services for direct individual counseling and community circles.
At Purple Couch, we’ve seen firsthand that youth wait to seek help mostly due to a lack of support from parents, mistrust of the health care system, and just not feeling safe to go to mental health providers lacking BIPOC representation. They don’t get help because addressing very real, very present, and very meaningful past trauma just isn’t San Antonio’s culture.
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