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Mini-series: Building capacity: Developing the confidence to make mental health everybody’s business

Teaching Matters Academic Support

That students know me through my mental health teaching means that I often find myself listening to their concerns about mental health and supporting them to find help within the university and/or mental health services.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is important for practitioners not only to normalize and discuss mental health, but also to provide spaces for Black youth to make meaning of their own experiences and gain strategies to promote their healthy development. The Journal of Staff Development , 42 (4), 40–44. Frontiers in Education, 7 (1). link] Weaver, S.