Collaborating with African American churches to overcome minority disaster mental health disparities: What mental health professionals can learn from Hurricane Katrina.

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie D. Aten ◽  
Sharon Topping ◽  
Ryan M. Denney ◽  
Tania G. Bayne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
African American Churches ◽  
American Churches

scholarly journals Partnering with African American Churches to Create a Community Coalition for Mental Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (Supp) ◽  
pp. 467-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney H. Hankerson ◽  
Kenneth Wells ◽  
Martha Adams Sullivan ◽  
Joyce Johnson ◽  
Laura Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Coalition ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
African American Churches ◽  
Study Intervention ◽  
American Churches ◽  
Academic Interests

Community partnered participatory research (CPPR) emphasizes community engagement, respect, and empowerment as guiding principles to promote mental health equity. This article describes the “Vision” stage of a CPPR-informed model to implement evidence-based practices for de­pression in two African American churches in Harlem, New York. Essential parts of the Vision include engagement of stakeholders and collaborative planning. The engage­ment process increased awareness about the project via a community-focused mental health symposium. The collaborative plan­ning stage resulted in creating a multi-dis­ciplinary Community Coalition for Mental Health, establishing the Coalition’s values, agreeing to change the initial chosen study intervention from Interpersonal Counseling to Mental Health First Aid, and developing a website to disseminate the group’s work. Key lessons learned from our partnered process are: 1) support from the lead pas­tor is crucial; 2) balancing community and academic interests can be challenging; 3) icebreaker activities foster relationships and reinforce CPPR principles; 4) multiple com­munication channels can enhance commu­nity participation; and, 5) should organize data in ways that make them easier to interpret.Ethn Dis. 2018;28(Suppl 2):467- 474; doi:10.18865/ed.28.S2.467

scholarly journals Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0255303
Author(s):  
Mengxi Zhang ◽  
Mark VanLandingham ◽  
Yoon Soo Park ◽  
Philip Anglewicz ◽  
David M. Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Vietnamese Americans ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Post Disaster

Some communities recover more quickly after a disaster than others. Some differentials in recovery are explained by variation in the level of disaster-related community damage and differences in pre-disaster community characteristics, e.g., the quality of housing stock. But distinct communities that are similar on the above characteristics may experience different recovery trajectories, and, if so, these different trajectories must be due to more subtle differences among them. Our principal objective is to assess short-term and long-term post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese and African Americans living in two adjacent communities in eastern New Orleans that were similarly flooded by Hurricane Katrina. We employ data from two population-based cohort studies that include a sample of African American adults (the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health [GCAFH study]) and a sample of Vietnamese American adults (Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans [KATIVA NOLA study]) living in adjacent neighborhoods in eastern New Orleans who were assessed near the second and thirteenth anniversaries of the disaster. Using the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12) as the basis of our outcome measure, we find in multivariate analysis a significant advantage in post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese Americans over their African American counterparts at the two-year mark, but that this advantage had disappeared by the thirteenth anniversary of the Katrina disaster.

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