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The Retooling Black Anxiety project aims to work with Black families to identify the relationship between the family identity status and dealing with anxiety; identify family needs and resources to cope with anxiety (physical and virtual); implement an intervention to help families deal with anxiety; and develop resources and resource space for use by Black families experiencing anxiety.
BLACK ANXIETY
PROJECT
BLACK ANXIETY
Research conducted in 2021 by the Department of Justice Canada, and the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat at the Department of Canadian Heritage identified how over-policing in schools and in Black communities – particularly in economically marginalized neighbourhoods – as well as police reliance on child welfare agencies, has increased the encounters Black youth have with the criminal justice system.
According to the Department of Justice Canada, in 2020-21, Black males made up 19 percent of all male youth admissions to custody, and Black females made up 11 percent of all female youth admissions to custody.
Project Implementing partners
Ghana Union
Ghana Union of Canada (GUC) is the voice of Canada's Ghanaian Community at the federal level.
VISION
We’re dedicated to helping Black youth in Canada deal with anxiety, depression, and other mental health-related issues.
Ghana Union of Canada (GUC) and Gashanti Young Women Initiative lead the project's community-based research activities and intervention.
OUR ACTIVITIES
You can free yourself from anxiety.
PROJECT
ACTIVITIES
Join the Black Anxiety team as we carry out community education sessions, mental health workshops, public education meetings.
