Mentorship and Leadership in Advancing Behavioral Health Equity

• By: Carmen Collado, LCSW-R Community Counseling & Mediation (CCM)
• May 7th, 2026
• behavioral health equity, career development, community-based care, health disparities, leadership, mentorship, social work, workforce development
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Growing up in Jamaica, Queens, in a working-class family, I learned early that one’s circumstances do not define one’s potential. My grandparents instilled in me the value of perseverance and the belief that education is a powerful equalizer. I was driven not only to advance myself, but also to...

Community Counseling & Mediation (CCM) Launches New Bond Street Clinic to Support Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Brooklyn

• By: Douglas Brooks, LCSW-R Carmen Collado, LCSW-R Community Counseling & Mediation
• April 16th, 2025
• adolescents, children, community, counseling, culturally responsive care, equity, family, mental health, mental health clinic, Spring 2025 Issue, therapy, trauma-informed therapy
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Community Counseling & Mediation (CCM) is proud to announce the grand opening of our Bond Child and Adolescent Article 31 Mental Health Clinic, a new facility dedicated to serving the behavioral health needs of youth and families in Brooklyn. The clinic will officially open on Thursday, May 9,...

The Right Support

• By: Carmen Collado, LCSW-R David Kamnitzer, LCSW-R Jose Cotto, LCSW Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• October 1st, 2016
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Creating an atmosphere of inclusion and acceptance for all people coming to an organization for help begins with the core values of that agency. Here, at ICL, we believe in and offer person-centered, recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and integrated physical and behavioral healthcare. No matter a...

Assessing Racial Equity Impact in Mental Health Policymaking: Reflections and Recommendations

• By: Mimi Abramovitz Sandra Bernabei, LCSW Carmen Collado, LCSW-R Robert Hawkins, MPA, MA, PhD Wayne Ho, MPP Eri J. Kim Larry Mandell, MSW Jonathan Morgenstern Gabriel Sayegh Michael Stoller
• January 1st, 2011
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Racism has a long and unique history in the practice and policy of mental health in the United States. In colonial times, for example, it was a common belief that Blacks did not have the intellectual capacity to experience mental illness. In later periods runaway slaves were diagnosed with...