The People's Money (2021-2022)

This project addresses the mental health needs of the Sunset Park community by training frontline social service providers and other non-traditional community leaders to address mental health issues and their underlying contributors. Target populations can include nonprofit social service staff, educators, faith-based leaders, barbers, among others. The project includes a three-part training that focuses on the following: Mental Health First Aid, social support services / referrals, and cultural- and racial sensitivity. Providers emerging from the training will be provided a resource toolkit that includes a local mental health and social service resource referral list and map, multilingual mental health and social support literature to be shared with their constituents, and template PowerPoints for community-oriented mental health / social service workshops.