20,000 Calls a Year: Inside Milwaukee County’s Mobile Crisis Team
Milwaukee County’s Mobile Crisis team is fielding more than 20,000 calls a year and hiring six more clinicians to keep up — and it’s keeping people out of the ER.
Black Men Are Finally Talking About Anxiety Out Loud. The System Still Isn’t Built to Listen.
A wave of Black men writing and speaking publicly about anxiety and therapy marks a real cultural shift. But the treatment-access gap behind that shift hasn’t moved nearly as fast — and naming the shift without naming the gap is its own kind of dishonesty.
The Exceptional People Behind Their Warriors: One Counselor’s Mission to Support the Families PTSD Never Mentions
Milwaukee, WI — Everybody talks about what PTSD does to the veteran. Almost nobody talks about what it does to the person lying next to him at 3am. That’s the conversation Marcus Hart brought to this week’s episode of Transform U: Veteran Stories, sitting down with Welby O’Brien — wife of a combat veteran living […]
The 22 Percent: Why Black Veterans Carry a Heavier PTSD Burden, and What Actually Closes the Gap
There’s a number I want to sit with for a minute before I explain why it matters: 22 percent. That’s the share of Black veterans who deployed and report post-traumatic stress disorder, according to recent Department of Veterans Affairs research. For white veterans who deployed, that number is 14.1 percent. Same wars. Same deployments, broadly […]
More Black Men Are Walking Into Therapy Offices. The System Behind That Door Still Isn’t Ready for Them.
A real cultural shift is underway — more Black men choosing therapy over silence. But a shortage of culturally competent Black providers means the door is opening faster than the system behind it can staff up.
The Numbers on Black Men’s Mental Health Are Getting Worse. The Silence Around Them Doesn’t Have To.
Suicide, overdose, and alcohol-related deaths are climbing among Black men even as more public figures talk openly about therapy — a reminder that visibility and access are two very different problems, and only one of them is improving fast enough.
The Suicide Numbers Nobody in My Community Wants to Say Out Loud
Black Americans’ suicide death rate has climbed 53% in a decade, with young Black men bearing the sharpest edge of the crisis — and Black veterans face nearly double the PTSD rate of their white counterparts. Marcus Hart on why this crisis stays hidden and what actually moves the needle.
The Conference Circuit Quietly Building What Black Men’s Mental Health Care Actually Needs
Every July, the culture runs its familiar cycle: a hashtag, a handful of op-eds, a wave of “Black men need to talk about their mental health” commentary, and then, by August, silence again until next year’s awareness push. I’ve written versions of that critique myself. But something different has been building this year that deserves […]
We Keep Calling It Awareness Month. Black Men Are Calling It Survival.
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and the data on Black men is getting worse, not better. Marcus Hart on why naming the crisis isn’t the same as building the off-ramp.
Minority Mental Health Awareness Month Keeps Getting Marked. Black Men Keep Getting Missed.
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and the data on Black men keeps pointing the same direction — rising suicide and overdose deaths, and a treatment gap driven less by access than by trust. Marcus Hart looks at what a fraternity-and-clinician partnership gets right that decades of awareness campaigns haven’t.