Victor Armstrong
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
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and juvenile justice partnerships throughout the state.
To me, that is an extremely important point.
And I think that's in part where we need to shift the way that we think about things culturally and philosophically.
Even with technology, we think about the programmatic piece of it.
Let's create technology and make technology more accessible to underserved communities, and we will automatically get them to utilize the resource.
But early data shows that we still have that gap.
still in historically marginalized populations utilizing services.
And we often hear that people of color won't access services or that black men in particular don't want therapy.
For a lot of people of color, they'll go to their faith-based organizations first because that's where things are palatable to them.
And if you have treatment modalities that are not really culturally sensitive,
you're not going to get people of color engaged.
And I think that's part of the reason that it makes so much more sense, too, to actually take the resources into the community, because the more that you do things on their turf, you're more likely to have, in addition to evidence-based and evidence-informed practices, you're going to have community-informed practices.
I would add to that.
I look at it as kind of what's the long-term approach and what's the short-term approach.
Long-term, we do need to be growing a more diverse workforce.
On the short term, I think one of the things that we have to do is we have to look more also at the value of using non-traditional collaboration.
So how do we collaborate with the faith-based community?
Because the family is going to go to them anyway.
And how do we utilize more lived experience?
I know here in North Carolina, we have something like
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