Community Outreach Mental Health Initiative

It’s Time to Create Community!

Loudoun Psychological Services is responding to our nation’s call for change during this threefold pandemic: Covid-19, Civil Injustice and Recession. We are committed to providing our community with the support that is being sought and called upon while simultaneously acknowledging and confronting the swell of racism and trauma that has gripped our country and ongoing restrictions, sadness, and anxiety related to Covid-19. We recognize that ALL Mental Health Matters and establishing awareness is the first step in recognizing that each one of us is not only responsible for ourselves but for one another too.

As our community prepares for the return of school, let us help with:

• Individual Advocacy - Empowering clients on how to communicate and express themselves when stressors or emotions interrupt home or school.
• Group Advocacy – Addressing the local community itself on stress management, communication, or processing groups on present feelings after the events of the past few months.
• Institutional Advocacy – Speaking out and attending open meetings of their school boards and city councils highlighting concerns about inequity related to technology access, food and even wellness checks for individuals.
• Societal Advocacy – Encouraging clients to listen to the experts and adopt precautions around how society is changing.

It is our intent to use a leadership platform to establish awareness, confront and embrace challenges to make a difference for a better world for African Americans/ Black, Indigenous and people of color. Change is needed and prompting conversations about the harmful affects of racial injustice, institutionalized racism, and self –identity will be an on-going effort to increase self-purpose, uplift self-worth and cultivate a healthier state of mind.

Breaking Generational

Studies have indicated that African Americans/ Blacks are less likely to seek or accept psychiatric help due to bias of some medical professionals and the belief that they will be mistreated or treated differently than other people. Hispanic Americans are less likely to seek or accept help for psychiatric disabilities due to the belief that a government –run institution, will mistreat them. Mental health counseling. (2011). In CRC exam secrets study guide: Your key to exam success. Beaumont, TX: Mometrix Media LLC.

Cultural Diversity

The clinicians at Loudoun Psychological Services are doing our part at being aware of various types of discrimination that may hinder rehabilitation objectives. Discrimination, from color, marital status, culture, ethnic group, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, and economic status is a sure way of blocking positive interaction between the client and counselor.

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