Tucked away in the Westside neighborhood is the Mattie Rhodes Center, a community development organization helping those impacted by last week's shooting with its bilingual services.
Rapidly rising rates of deaths by suicide and drug overdose among people of color, along with disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, further underscore inequities in access to mental health care and treatment and highlight the importance of centering equity in diagnostics, care, and treatment.