Promoting Mental Wellness and Resiliency as a Way to Cope with Urban Trauma

Posted by on March 10, 2010

Documentary explores mental health in black community

MEE Productions has conducted focus groups in some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in America, from the South Side of Chicago to South Central LA, from North Philadelphia to Southeast DC, in post-Katrina Louisiana and more.

One word comes up as a constant: stress.

Now a new MEE documentary, Moving Beyond Survival Mode: Promoting Mental Wellness and Resiliency as a Way to Cope with Urban Trauma, explores how living in low-income, underserved communities puts individuals at risk for stress, ongoing trauma, depression and even mental health problems.

The video showcases the voices of Americans who too often fall through the cracks.  Young black Americans, who feel beaten down by the struggle to survive poverty, broken homes, child abuse, violent communities, poor schools, institutional racism, police harassment and other social ills, share their stories and their emotional “injuries.”

Moving Beyond Survival Mode will be released to the public in mid-March, but a film clip is available online by clicking here.

http://www.meeproductions.com/mentalwellness/mwvideoexcerpt.php