Kweku’s Korner By Dr. Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi formerly known as Dr. Ramel Smith When does the holiday season begin for you? Is it right after Thanksgiving Dinner or maybe after Black Friday shopping? Or maybe it began with the first snowfall? For our family, every year it began on December 10th. This was my mother’s […]
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What to Know About Adoption and Mental Health
Kweku’s Korner Guest Writer Shanna Sullivan, LCSW By Shanna Sullivan, LCSW November is National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM), a month focused on adoption awareness. We often view adoption through a lens of celebration-our culture looks at adoption as a happy event to be celebrated. Many times, and for many reasons, adoption is a celebration. But […]
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Black Mental Health Matters for 2024 Election
Kweku’s Korner By Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi When the conversation of Mental Health arises, the masses leave the conversation. We have been conditioned to believe that mental health is divorced from physical health. We have been conditioned to believe that mental health is only dealing with illnesses, such as anxiety, depression, and trauma. The reality is […]