Take a deep breath. Unclench your jaw. Relax your shoulders.
The MFP is an initiative staffed by ANA with funding from SAMHSA, making fellowships available to ethnic and racial psychiatric nursing students who are enrolled full time in an accredited master’s/doctoral nursing program.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
Improving Care of LGBTQ People of Color (opens new window)
One of the ways I think being a Black pansexual trans woman affects my hypertension directly is stress.... I hadn’t had super high blood pressure until I came out.... It’s a mental exercise to leave the house now, you know, and to feel confident enough that you would get from point A to point B and back to point A safely.... On a racial level, there’s a societal stigma that Black people aren’t intelligent. R (opens new window)ead more (opens new window)
Overcoming Stigma in the Latino Community (opens new window)
Mental health stigma is pervasive in the Hispanic/Latinx community. These long-standing negative beliefs surrounding mental health are attributed to various cultural complexities, such as the tendency to keep personal challenges private and the harsh stereotypes affiliated with those who suffer from mental health issues. Read more (opens new window)
Report: Racial, ethnic disparities continue for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers (opens new window)
When Keondra Williams went to her first support group meeting for Alzheimer’s caregivers in Cobb County, she felt more alone than ever. All the caregivers in the meeting where older white women. Williams, who was in her early 40s at the time, was Black and a mother of one then-teen and two adult children. Read more (opens new window)
More Than 9.84 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Tracker (opens new window)
The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 9.84 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 36.3 million doses a day. In the U.S., 530 million doses have been given so far. An average 259,586 doses per day were administered over the last week. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
MFP Alumna Dr. Eugenia Millender Selected as the New NAC Chair
Congratulations to Eugenia Millender, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC, CDE, FAAN, on being selected as the new National Advisory Committee (NAC) Chair for the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at ANA.
Congratulations to Dr. Mayola Rowser for her appointment as the interim President of Goldfarb School of Nursing.
Read more (opens new window)Join the first of a four-part series featuring Broderick Sawyer, PhD. For further information on the topics within the series and to register in advance, click
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About MFP
Funding for the MFP e-Newsletter was made possible (in part) by Grant Number 1H79SM080386-04 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written training materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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