The Overlapping Roots of Mental Health Disparities: Poverty, Racism, and Trauma as Social Determinants

• By: Jordan Baker Relias
• September 29th, 2025
• community resilience, Fall 2025 Issue, mental health, mental health equity, poverty, protective and risk factors, racism and racial trauma, social determinants of health, trauma-informed care
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Mental health cannot be fully understood — or effectively addressed — without considering the powerful forces that shape people’s everyday lives. Poverty, racism, and trauma are more than just challenges individuals face; they are deeply embedded social determinants of mental health that...

Super Storm Sandy is Over but the Problems Are Not: A Creative Community-Based Integrated Health Care Initiative

• By: Michael Skinner, LCSW Staten Island Mental Health Society
• October 1st, 2015
• anxiety, community resilience, depression, disaster recovery, home-based care, integrated care, mental health, PTSD
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The Staten Island Mental Health Society, Inc. (SIMHS as lead agency) and Community Health Action of Staten Island (CHASI) partnered, in April 2014, to form a Mobile Integrated Health Team (MIHT) to provide in-home health and mental health services to Staten Island residents still suffering the...