Honoring National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

Rick Patrick rick@greenepublishing.com “Once my loved ones accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can’t we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans … It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.” -Bebe Moore Campbell, 2005 In an effort to shed light on the need for greater me