Mental Illness In The Community

The definition of a problem that I consider to be of high priority is eliminating the stigma associated with mental illness. The mentally ill population frequently experience challenges to their ability to function and align their behavior consistent with the social norms. Due to the high volume of individuals that suffer from mental health disorders, often these people lack sufficient advocacy and rehabilitation facilities that specialize in providing them the life skills and coping modalities that are essential to their ability to function appropriately in society. Mental illness is becoming a pervasive occurrence in communities across the world, and these individuals are in desperate need of competent and accountable professionals that are
These two infrastructures serve as the fabric of our community and combine to provide vast amounts of resources driven towards assisting and meeting the needs of individuals and families from every walk of life. These establishments deliver services to our community members that struggle with aversive effects related to substance, spousal, and child abuse, as well as, victimization and mental health disorders. These diverse populations deserve equitable treatment and the right to be treated with dignity, empathy, and genuineness forms of professional
Mandating cultural competence training for all professionals in the field of behavior science and education to ensure we are equipped with the tools essential to reach all members of the community regardless of their demographics and cultural dynamics. Teachers and other professionals in the field of education are in the trenches with our youth, providing them academic curriculum that is essential to their development, so perhaps our educational systems can also implement a new class curriculum that focuses on identifying community resources that meet the needs of multicultural family dynamics. Also, by participating in neighborhood outreach services to the homes that are in proximity to the school as a demonstration to the community that we have instilled responsive forms of communication in our youth and are advancing their abilities to address and recognize social issues competently. By simply planting the seed in our youth at a young age and constantly reinforcing their perception consistent to fostering equitable treatment and the competency to recognize social issues and the hardships of others using the sociological imagination is the precursor to adequately addressing this