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‘Hope Was Still Waiting for Me’: Finding a Sanctuary in Fantasy Fiction
This story was originally published on Mindsite News online publication May 15, 2023. Related stories: No Illusion: Fantasy Fiction is...
May 16, 20235 min read
No Illusion: Fantasy Fiction is My Safe Space
This story was originally published in Mindsite News online publication May 15, 2023. Related Stories: Young People Drive Fantasy Book...
May 16, 20234 min read
Young People Drive Fantasy Book Sales Post-Pandemic And it’s good news for literacy
This story was originally published on Mindsite News's online publication May 15, 2023. Related stories: No Illusion: Fantasy Fiction...
May 16, 20235 min read
Mental health days off? Students say yes, please
By Radiah Jamil and Kymani Hughes Youthcast Media Group ® Marilyn Pani, a 16-year-old senior at Flushing High School in New York, almost...
Mar 31, 20235 min read
Mental health experts weigh in on 988 and its future: Q&A
By Oyewumi Oyeniyi Youthcast Media Group ® This story was originally published on USA Today's website on Feb. 25, 2023. On June 5, 2017,...
Feb 27, 20237 min read
Screening Early for Trauma, Learning Disabilities Could Slow School-to-Prison Pipeline
Frank Pinckney believes his undiagnosed learning differences and mental illness contributed to his substance use disorder – and...
Dec 22, 20228 min read
Access to tobacco products, including vapes, and proximity of retailers pose challenge for youth
In Baltimore, more than 87% of tobacco retailers are within 1,000 feet of a public school, according to a study by researchers at...
Aug 2, 20224 min read
Lifelong friends Larry Owens and Donald Shakir use art to handle life after prison
By Aileen Delgado Youthcast Media Group® This story ran in Black News & Voices with the National Association of Black Journalists online...
Jul 5, 20223 min read
Sheltering in place? Go outside!
Anthony Brown is shown with 5-month-old Smyth Brown in Folger Park on Capital Hill. (Tiffany Gillis Brown) By Breyanna Dabney (Perry Hall...
Jul 1, 20223 min read
‘Alienated’ and other poems by Samantha Mills
Alienated I find it difficult to communicate with you, It's like you are of another species. I am an alien. Or maybe You are. We...
Jun 1, 20223 min read
How a counselor shortage is hurting students struggling with anxiety, depression
School counselor retention was already a problem before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to mental health experts. They said it's only...
Apr 21, 20226 min read
‘When it comes to creating change, it’s not a sprint–it’s a marathon’
How culture affects people’s approach to mental health and what it takes to change the narrative By Yesenia Barrios, Urban Health Media...
Apr 7, 20224 min read
Together, Philly mom and son cope with mental health issues
By Aileen Delgado and Julianne Hill This article was published in the Philadelphia Tribune on March 29, 2022. At two-and-a-half years...
Mar 29, 20223 min read
When the local barber’s chair becomes a therapist’s couch
By Shawna James This article ran in print and online in the Philadelphia Tribune on March 15, 2022. PHILADELPHIA — When you walk into...
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Foster children at high risk for a multitude of mental health problems
By Yesenia Barrios Lisa Cohen, author, boxer and former foster child Lisa Cohen had to start over 13 times. As a foster kid she needed...
Mar 1, 20224 min read
‘I thought I was the only one’: Peer support groups help teens fight loneliness, isolation
By Olivia Fendrich and Radiah Jamil On a fall day outside Francis Scott Key High School in Carroll County, Md., a circle of chairs was...
Jan 26, 20225 min read
Correctional facilities: The Band-Aid to mental health
Correctional Facilities: The Band-Aid to Mental Health By Yesenia Barrios Shawanna Vaughn had no choice. She was born in a prison...
Jan 11, 20224 min read
Social media: A complex challenge for youth and parents to protect mental health
By Yesenia Barrios Using social media– specifically apps like Instagram and Snapchat--requires tricky negotiation for young people to...
Jan 10, 20223 min read
‘Enough is enough — I am going to die’
Therapy Thursday panelists talk about the multiple obstacles victims face to leave an abusive relationship By Yesenia Barrios Roblyn...
Dec 23, 20213 min read
Facts and data on mental health and law enforcement
Blacks were 10% of LA’s population, but 44% of those diagnosed with “serious mental illness.” - 2014 report to the Committee on the...
Nov 19, 20212 min read
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