Interview with Dianne Ross, RN
Founder and CEO of Araven Holistic Mind Institute (AHMI)
Interviewer: What are the percentages in terms of African-Americans being afflicted by mental illnesses being
able to receive mental health services?
Ms.
Ross: I have...
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Interview with Dianne Ross, RN
Founder and CEO of Araven Holistic Mind Institute (AHMI)
Interviewer: What are the percentages in terms of African-Americans being afflicted by mental illnesses being
able to receive mental health services?
Ms.
Ross: I have not been able to find any current statistics regarding how many African-Americans there are
with diagnosed mental illnesses.
Suicide rates and the
like exist.
According to NAMI, the National Alliance on
Mental Illness, the suicide rate compared between African-Americans and Caucasian teens shows that African
-American suicide is more than twice as frequent as that
with Caucasian teens.
As a result of the lack of statistical information on mental
illnesses in the African-American or Black community,
Araven Holistic Mind Institute (AHMI) surveys people
during all of our functions to get ethnicity, age, gender,
anecdotal, diagnosed and suspected information on incidences of mental illnesses in our community.
Interviewer: How did you
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