White House Mental Health Twitter Chat

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The White House Asian American Pacific Islander E3! Ambassadors partnered with Boston University School of Public Health and Students for Quality Health Care to host a Mental Health Twitter Chat. The purpose of this Twitter conversation is to:

  1. Highlight the experiences of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPI) and their views surrounding mental health and well-being; and
  2. Share resources from non-profit and federal organizations that may help aid those very students in promoting health and wellness.

Using hashtag #E3MentalHealth, various federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, professionals and students were welcomed to join the conversation about mental health in the AAPI community. There was a lot of great information and resources shared in regards with mental health issues in the AAPI community. Here are some sample tweets:

  • Bryan Dosono (or @bdosono) tweeted:
    • “@BU_E3 A2: #AAPI families are reluctant to seek care because cultural norms stigmatize #MentalHealth as taboo. #E3MentalHealth” and
    • “@BU_E3 A3: Migrants face linguistic challenges to mental health care. #E3MentalHealth http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24375384.”
  • SAMHSA (@samhsagov) replied:
    • “@bdosono @BU_E3 Yes! Also, cultural background&language can influence how a provider responds to a person w/ symptoms of a mental illness.”
  • National Council of Asian Pacific American ‏(@NCAPA) tweeted:

To read the original thread of Tweets, visit https://twitter.com/hashtag/e3mentalhealth.To learn more about the White House Asian American Pacific Islander E3! Ambassadors, visit http://sites.ed.gov/aapi/e3.

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