African American Teen Crisis: Suicide During the Pandemic

Tune in on Thursday, March 11 @ 12pm EST for another impactful conversation expanding on the data surrounding the increase in teen suicides in the US.  Dr. Crystal L. Barksdale, Chief of the Minority Mental Health Research Program for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), joins us to discuss how NIMH communicates with mental health providers and schools to address this growing issue.  Dr. Barksdale is responsible for providing guidance and expertise related to issues related to minority mental health and mental health disparities. She has also led implementation and evaluation efforts in the private sector related to the National CLAS Standards, provided cultural and linguistic competency training and technical assistance to health and health care organizations, and managed cultural and linguistic competency program development and evaluation efforts. She has worked on research projects exploring racial/ethnic disparities and disproportionality in child-serving systems, and that identified culturally appropriate mental health interventions for at-risk youth and their families. Dr. Barksdale, a licensed clinical psychologist and educator, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from George Washington University, her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.