Taking care of your mental health is essential to maximizing your full potential.
collaborations
south sacramento
healthy black families collaborative
Escape Velocity is a community partner in the South Sacramento Healthy Black Families Collaborative (HBFC). Our partnership is solving for Domestic Violence survivors and the most vulnerable while celebrating culture, listening to the unheard and working to formulate solutions and move to action. We take preventative approaches by providing trainings, tools, and resources to multi-generational audiences and empowering trusted community leads and families.
The partners are listed below with their contact info.
- Rose Family Creative Empowerment Center – 916-376-7916
- South Sacramento Christian Center – 916-681-6791
- Sacramento Children’s Home Family Resource Center – 916-290-8281
- Escape Velocity Resources Foundation Inc – 916-399-3952
- VOY Inc./She Could Be My Daughter – 916-533-8465
- WEAVE Inc (24/7 Support & Information) – 916-920-2952
live well south sacramento (LWSS)
Escape Velocity is a community partner of LWSS. Live Well South Sacramento (aka Live Well Valley Hi) is a vibrant coalition of community partners dedicated to health and well-being in South Sacramento neighborhoods. Members work to drive a culture of change – promoting access to healthy food, physical activity opportunities, safe streets, and educational and employment resources. Live Well South Sacramento envisions a healthier and happier community for everyone who lives, works, plays, prays and shops in South Sacramento.
sacramento promise zone
Escape Velocity is a community partner of Sacramento Promise Zone.
mental health
Negative attitudes and beliefs towards people who live with mental health conditions is pervasive within the U.S. and can be particularly strong within the African-American community. One study showed that 63% of African-Americans believe that a mental health condition is a sign of personal weakness. As a result, people may experience shame about having a mental illness and worry that they may be discriminated against due to their condition. We need to break the stigma around it, and let our community know the importance of speaking out when struggling with a mental health issue. Together we can make a difference!
BARRIERS THAT PREVENT MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM SEEKING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
- High Costs Of Mental Health
- Familial Shame Around Mental Health
- Cultural Stigma Of Mental Illness
- Lack of Diversity In Healthcare
- Poor Competency Among Non-Black Clinicians
STATS
Between 75% and 95% of people with mental health issues in impoverished and developing communities do not have access to any mental health services.
Anxiety is the most common mental illness in the world, affecting 284 million people. (Our World in Data, 2018).
National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that 17% of youth ages
6-17 are affected by a mental health condition and that 50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14.
Black and African American people are more often diagnosed with schizophrenia and less often diagnosed with mood disorders compared to white people with the same symptoms.
ACTIVITIES TO HELP WITH MENTAL HEALTH
- Talk to someone about it.
- Practice self-care through exercise, meditation, journaling, healthy eating…
- Take a mental health self-assessment.
What's new
New Suicide-Prevention Hotline
The FCC will require that phone companies allow people to text as well as call a new “988” number for the suicide-prevention hotline. Phone companies have until July 2022 to implement the 988 number for both calling and texting.
Health & Wellness series Videos
Resources
Mental Health
Domestic Violence
Mental Health
Domestic Violence
- WEAVE 24/7 Crisis Hotline 916-920-2952
- Men Stopping Violence
- Domestic Violence Resources in Sacramento County (pdf)
- I-CAN: Crime Victims Assistance Network
- Community Against Sexual Harm
- Sacramento Domestic Violence Shelters
Please use our referral service for DV if you’re an African-American in South Sacramento.
domestic violence
what is domestic violence
Domestic Violence is a pattern of cruel behavior where a person uses different types of abusive ways to control someone.
That could be: a husband gunning down his wife, a son hitting his mom over a silly argument, or a teenage girl abusing her nephew among others.
Things such as age and gender don’t matter. Anyone can become a victim and likewise, anyone can be an abuser.
The problem is, many victims don’t realize when they’re being abused. Excuses like a rough day and bad mood don’t help either.
Here are some but not all of the prominent DV categories:
- Physical Abuse: Pushing or kicking a person. Slapping, biting, or strangling someone. Locking a person out of their home.
- Emotional Abuse: Name-calling, acting out of jealousy, manipulating, humiliating and degrading a person, and threatening.
- Sexual Abuse: Forcing someone to have sex. Compelling a person to dress more sexually than they wish to.
- Economic Abuse: Denying access to their bank accounts or credit cards. Preventing someone from going to a job. Limiting access to health insurance.
help or get help
Are you in a bad relationship? Does your partner abuse you regularly? Get help!
Take action before it becomes too late. You don’t want to end up dead or physically damaged. Do you?!
If someone you know is being abused, take action and help them and save their life.
To get help for yourself or to help someone else, please submit a referral request below.
- projects -
Youth Mental Health with SACYoUTHWoRKS
MindOnesix Youth Projects 2021
The MindOneSix project is in conjunction with our community partner Pro Youth & Families “Youth & Family Collective” initiative. We had 11 youth ages 14-18 participate and create three group projects to spread mental health awareness. They completed 20 hours of Mental Health Champion training with Pro Youth and then 20 hours or more for their projects. We are so happy to announce the Newsletter, T-shirt design, and PSA teams. The program ran from June 2021 to October 2021. Below you will see the projects from the youth.
Group 1: Newsletter team was Shay Poree, Nola Poree, and Rayvn Davis. They wrote a newsletter with articles on Mental Health; What is Mental Health, Words from Your Peers, and Ways to Cope including resources.
Group 2: PSA team was Shahad Watkins, Musaddiqah Corbett, Ky Hayes, and Mia Crockett. They created a 30 second PSA to bring awareness to mental health pertaining to adults paying attention to their teens…Listen! Empathize! Show Up! Speak Life!
Group 3: T-shirt Design team was Malaika Singleton, Sultana Singleton, Aminah Lucero-Mattis, and Taylor Davis. Artist credit for front graphic (Malaika Singleton). The back incorporates the PSA. The entire group receives a free t-shirt and it’s also being used as a fundraiser for Escape Velocity.
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