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:
- Highlight the experiences of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPI) and their views surrounding mental health and well-being; and
- 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:
- “Resource: Watch our #mentalhealh webinar with @kevinnadal & @apiahf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbqifJPe1-4&feature=youtu.be … #E3MentalHealth” and
- “A1: #MentalHealthMatters because #AAPIs are less likely to report mental health concerns: http://www.aaspe.net/Depression_and_suicide.html … #E3MentalHealth”.
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.
