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RAISING THE VISIBILITY is Hope For Us Network’s newest digital education series exploring mental health care in the 21st century! Each episode is a Livestream broadcast that offers interactive education and discussion experience on The Network’s Twitch Channel.
SEASON 1: Stimgas and our Institutions
We examine social and cultural factors that can create "blind spots" among professionals that lead to obstacles in identifying, validating, and servicing mental health challenges.
Together with voices representing lived experience, advocacy, clinicians, and professionals, we hope to have a comprehensive discussion identifying problems and seeking solutions!
Episode 5: Ethnicity
When it comes to the intersection of ethnicity and bias in mental health, there is a double-edged obstacle. Institutions can maintain bias inherited from systemic practices of racism and inequity rife in society at large. But stigmas and obstacles to accessing mental health can grow from within our cultures, entangled with core values inherited in our ethnic heritage and customs.
Episode 5 Featured Guest Expert: Tandra Rutledge
Tandra Rutledge is the Director of Business Development at Riveredge Hospital – the largest, free-standing behavioral health hospital in Illinois.
Tandra holds a Master’s Degree in clinical psychology and has over 25 years of experience in behavioral healthcare, working with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of clinical settings.
Tandra is a certified suicide prevention gatekeeper trainer for QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer). Tandra currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Episode 5 Community Panel
Jen Olsen
Jen Olsen is a global health professional working to build better health outcomes across borders and diverging health systems. She currently spends most of her emotional energy trying to design better programming that elevates mental and physical health needs regardless of gender, race, economic status and lived experience. Jen is a relentless all-season cyclist and a great lover of color in nature. She currently lives in Boston but frequently questions why she does not live closer to the equator.
Peter Renwick
As an adopted Korean-born child, Peter was deeply impacted by his dynamic multiracial upbringing to go into education with a career focus on special education. Peter has been an ardent mental health advocate in the public education sector over the past ten years.
Brianna Kelly
Brianna is a passionate lived experience mental health advocate and active Reiki Practitioner who endeavors to treat Mental Health through holistic outlets.
Marlo Reyes
Marlo Reyes is a Mexican queer creative who is passionate about ending the stigmas. Marlo has facilitated intensive podcasts breaking silences and celebrating mental health discussions, particularly exploring mental health across the Latin diaspora in the podcast Caguamas-y-Dramas.
For full episodes and other Marlo activities, go HERE