Our Mission The mission of the All Healers Mental Health Alliance is to organize a long term, culturally competent response to the mental health needs of people of the United States, particularly people of color and people living in poverty affected by all hazards and disasters. We will work with all individuals, organizations, mental health, emergency response and crisis workers of various disciplines and backgrounds towards the goal of providing culturally competent mental health services and in doing so, foster hope, recovery, and resilience among affected people.
BELIEVE IN WHAT WE DO? PLEASE SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS . . .
Why donate to AHMHA? Read about the many invaluable activities, promoting mental health and a balanced well-being in the face of disasters. About Us
If you would like to speak with someone directly, please contact our donations coordinator by email at Donations Coordinator or by phone at 212-969-0417.
Your support allows AHMHA to provide emotional healing to disaster victims and it also allows AHMHA to provide healing to the healers providing service to disaster victims.
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?” - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).
AHMHA Phone & Fax: 917.677.8550
Latest News . . .
June Cross' Documentary to Air Tuesday Night on PBS
"The Old Man and the Storm"
January 6, 2008 . . . 9 pm . . . Frontline
The view excerpts from the show click here Read the Newsweek review click here June Cross is an award-winning producer with thirty
years of television news and documentary experience.
Health, Happiness and Prosperity in the New Year
United Steelworkers (USW) Helps Empower Workers on Firestone Plantation in Liberia
Just off the coast of Liberia, an African country founded by freed American slaves, is the largest rubber tree plantation in the world, where, until last month, Bridgestone Corp, a Fortune 500 company that pocketed a profit of $1.16 billion last year, paid its 10,300 workers between $2.65 and $3.38 a day.
__________________________ If you know of open positions, please send them to: illum2@bpgny.com
State of the Black World Conference
Institute of the Black World 21st Century
Post Conference Bulletin
The high powered National Town Hall Meeting in New Orleans focused on the need for a priority public policy agenda to present to the administration of President-Elect Barack Obama, the Town Hall Meeting featured analysis and public policy prescriptions from some of Black America’s leading scholars, activists and opinion leader.s
The Black Agenda and the 2008 Presidential Election
Moderators:
Bev Smith, Host of the Bev Smith Show, American Urban Radio Networks, Pittsburgh , PA
Mark Thompson, Host, Make It Plain, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Washington , D.C.
Panelists:
Marc Morial, President/CEO National Urban League, New York
Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Institute, Washington , D.C.
Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika, African American Leadership Project, New Orleans
Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President, Bennett College for Women, Greensboro , NC
Dr. Ronald Walters, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
Dr. Elsie Scott, President/CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Washington , D.C
Dr. Iva E. Carruthers General Secretary, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc., Chicago , IL
Atty. Faya Rose Sanders, Founder, Voting Rights Museum , Selma , Alabama
Other Participants:
Ray Nagin, Mayor, City of New Orleans
Cynthia Willard Lewis, Councilwoman, Lower 9th Ward and New Orleans East
Metropolitan FACT/ACT Referral Information
ACT is the Assertive Community Treatment program launched by MHSD July 2008. A similar team began in 2006 for JPHSA. FACT covers all Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes and serves forensic clients.
The goal of Assertive Community Treatment is to help people stay out of the hospital and to develop skills for living in the community, so that their mental illness is not the driving force in their lives. Assertive Community Treatment offers services that are customized to the individual needs of the consumer, delivered by a team of practitioners, and available 24 hours a day. For more information click ACT.
