Mental Health Trailblazers: Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up

SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association alumna, Faven Mesfin joins Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up host, Indrias Kassaye, in this episode on the youth mental health challenges that immigrant adolescents and youth face in America today.

Young people from recent immigrant backgrounds are the fastest growing segment of America’s youth population today. The majority of them are from ethnic and racial minority groups. The youth mental health crisis that has been raising alarm bells is even more intense among these foreign born and first-generation young people where rates of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress syndrome reach up to double that of their peers.

Listen in as Faven and Indrias explore the mental health related challenges that immigrant youth are facing today – from the stress that comes with adapting to a new culture, the fallout from clashing norms and values, misunderstanding terminology, the nuances of language and how nurses can better fill the deficit in culturally competent behavioral health care providers that these adolescents and youth need to thrive.

FREE CNE credits are available for listening to Season 3 episodes of Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! Find details below.

For more information about the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association visit www.emfp.org

Learn more about Faven Mesfin at https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/faven-mesfin

Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3: Episode8: Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Adolescents and Youth

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• Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.
   
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1. Listen to the entire podcast.
    
2. Complete the evaluation after the event.
    

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Evaluation Survey Link (opens on July 31, 2023) https://surveys.nursingworld.org/s3/MFP-Podcast-8-Mental-Health-Needs-of-Immigrant-Adolescents-and-Youth

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ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

As with any kind of illness, the proverbial adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ rings true for mental illness. If simple measures can stop what can become lifetimes of suffering, bring it on.

As we continue our exploration of the mental health challenges facing adolescents and youth from ethnic and racial minorities in the United States today, our guest on this episode of the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association’s Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric nurses Speak Up! podcast, recently graduated fellow Dr. David Agor, presents his insights into what his research indicates could be the ‘Holy Grail’ for society wide mental illness prevention.

Dr. Agor explains to host Indrias Kassaye the elements of what he considers primordial (as opposed to primary) prevention, and it all boils down to what we eat. Understanding the implications of this emerging field of nutritional psychiatry could be profound for nurses and behavioral health professionals in general, especially those working to address mental health disparities and inequities.

If adjusting diets and ensuring people have access to healthy foods can reduce depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and promote impulse control, a deeper dive into how the behavioral health workforce can harness diet to address the youth mental health crisis in America today is a must listen.

Free Continuing Nursing Education credits are available for listening to Season 3 episodes of Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up!

To learn more about the Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association visit https://www.emfp.org

For more on Dr. David Agor visit https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/david-agor

Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3:

Episode7: Nutritional Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health

Continuing Nursing Education Disclosures:

Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.

Requirements for CNE credit are to:

1. Listen to the entire podcast.

2. Complete the evaluation after the event.

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: July 17, 2025.

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The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association Alumna, Dr. Daisy Lara, joins host Indrias Kassaye for a conversation on the mental health related challenges facing the fastest growing adolescent and youth population in the United States today, Hispanic young people. While the Hispanic community is not a monolith with plenty of diversity and nuances, as a group, reasons for concern include having the highest levels of depressive symptoms relative to other ethnic or racial groups, and the second highest rate of suicide after Native American/Pacific Islander youth.

Nurses can play an important role in addressing the unmet behavioral health needs of Hispanic youth. Dr. Lara reflects on perceptions of mental health, and stigma related to mental illness, in Hispanic communities, and the role that behavioral health professionals including nurses can play to address their unmet needs.

Dr. Lara also shares her insights on the challenges of being a Hispanic nurse working in a field dominated by white women and her reasons for entering the field of psychiatric mental health nursing.

Dr. Lara is double board-certified by The American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She has extensive advance practice nursing experience in both outpatient and inpatient settings, including with adolescents and young adults. She is also a member of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) and is the most recent past President of the Philadelphia Chapter. Dr. Lara taught at the University of Pennsylvania school of nursing and continues to mentor rising nurse scholars through the MFP. Today she leads a private practice that provides supportive psychotherapy and educates patients on mental health.

For more information on the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association, visit www.emfp.org

To learn more about Dr. Daisy Lara, visit https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/daisy-lara

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Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3: Episode6: Hispanic Youth, Mental Health, and Nursing

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Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.

Requirements for CNE credit are to:

Listen to the entire podcast.

Complete the evaluation after the event.
 

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: July 3, 2025.

Evaluation Survey Link (opens on July 3, 2023): https://surveys.nursingworld.org/s3/MFP-Podcast-6-Hispanic-Youth-Mental-Health-and-Nursing

The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

With Dr. Bridgette M. (Brawner) Rice

Gun violence and what should be done about it continues to be the subject of raging public debate in America today. Beyond the headline generating partisan back and forth regarding gun control is the mounting and inadequately addressed toll that gun violence is taking on the wellbeing of the nation, including on youth and adolescents from minoritized communities.

In this episode of Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association Alumna, Dr. Bridgette M. (Brawner) Rice joins host, Indrias Kassaye, for a conversation on the epidemic of violence, its mental health implications, and the role that behavioral health professionals, including psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners and researchers, can play in addressing the profound existential ramifications for affected communities.

Stemming the devastation that threatens emerging generations of young people requires thinking outside the box, building coalitions, opening new lanes of research and action, and nurses have an important role to play.

Visit https://emfp.org to learn more about the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association.

Dr. Rice is The Richard and Marianne Kreider Endowed Professor in Nursing for Vulnerable Populations at Villanova University. Learn more about her at https://emfp.org/about-us/national-advisory-committee/bridgette-brawner-rice

Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3: Episode5: Gun Violence and Youth Mental Health

Continuing Nursing Education Disclosures:

• Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.
• Requirements for CNE credit are to:
• 1. Listen to the entire podcast.
• 2. Complete the evaluation after the event.

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: June 19, 2025.

Evaluation Survey Link (opens on June 19, 2023): https://surveys.nursingworld.org/s3/MFP-Podcast-5-Gun-Violence-and-Youth-Mental-Health

The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

Alarm bells have been ringing about rising rates of suicide among young African American youth for several years now, with present trends suggesting the situation is not getting better. In the not too distant past, however, these same rates were far lower in black communities when compared to the general population.

Dr. Frieda Outlaw, Executive Academic Program Consultant and alumna of the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association joins host, Indrias Kassaye, to explore the historical dynamics that have contributed to this reversal.

What were the unforeseen mental health consequences of desegregation and the pursuit of civil rights for communities anticipating life would get better for future generations of black people? What can be done to rebuild the protective factors that young people of color need now to withstand suicidal thoughts? And how can psychiatric mental health nurse clinicians, scientists, researchers and advocates contribute to the healing that must happen if these worrying trends are to be reversed?

Tune in to Season 3, Episode 4 of Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! for this engaging discussion on African American Youth and Suicide and how the behavioral health workforce can respond to what continues to be a national emergency.

To learn more about the Minority Fellowship Program, visit https://emfp.org

Learn more about Dr. Frieda Outlaw at https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/freida-h-outlaw

 

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Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3: Episode4: African American Youth & Suicide

Continuing Nursing Education Disclosures:

Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.

Requirements for CNE credit are to:

Listen to the entire podcast.

Complete the evaluation after the event.
 

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: June 5, 2025.

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The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

Native Americans, including adolescents and youth, have consistently had the highest rates of death by suicide from among all other racial and ethnic groups in America. The need for effective action to save young lives and reverse these trends has never been more dire.

SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association alumna, Dr. Beverly Patchell, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, joins Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! host Indrias Kassaye, to discuss the unique factors and circumstances that have contributed to high suicide rates among Native American Youth and what behavioral health professionals including psychiatric mental health nurses can do about it.

Together, Dr. Patchell and Indrias dive into the historical and cultural context that underpins present day behavioral health challenges that Native American adolescents and young adults face. Dr. Patchell leverages her long career as a nurse scientist, researcher, therapist, and clinician, her experiences as a mother and grandmother, as well as her intimate knowledge of indigenous culture and medicine and keen observation of the impact of contemporary factors including social media on youth behavior, to make the case for a major rethink of how the provision of behavioral health services to Native American communities is supported and delivered.

If recent calls for action on the youth mental health crisis gripping America that have put the spotlight on major increases in depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in recent years are to have an impact for Native American youth, it cannot be business as usual.

Learn more about Dr. Beverly Patchell at https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/beverly-patchell

More information on Native American Youth at risk of suicide, including resources to help are available at

https://www.cnay.org/suicide-prevention/

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/diverse-populations/americanindian/wellbeing/depression/

Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3: Episode3: Native American Youth & Suicide

Continuing Nursing Education Disclosures:

Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.

Requirements for CNE credit are to:

Listen to the entire podcast.

Complete the evaluation after the event.

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: May 22, 2025.

Evaluation Survey Link (opens on May 22, 2023): MFP Podcast: Native American Youth and Suicide (nursingworld.org)
 

The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

Mental Health Trailblazer’s focus on youth and adolescent mental health continues with a conversation around bullying. According to the US Surgeon General, one in five high-schoolers in America report being bullied, and one in six have experienced cyberbullying. The mental health consequences can be severe with consequences for the victims, the perpetrators, their families, communities and wider society, lasting a lifetime. SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association alumna Dr. Teresa Combs who has studied the phenomenon of bullying and addresses bullying in her clinical work, shares her insights with our host, Indrias Kassaye. Together they explore the various ways that bullying manifests and its impact, particularly among ethnic and racial minority communities, and what behavioral health professionals including psychiatric mental health nurses can do to respond.

You can learn more about Dr. Teresa Combs at https://emfp.org/about-us/national-advisory-committee/teresa-combs

Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3:
 

Continuing Nursing Education Disclosures:

- Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.

- Requirements for CNE credit are to:

1. Listen to the entire podcast.

2. Complete the evaluation after the event.

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: May 9, 2026

Evaluation Survey Link: https://surveys.nursingworld.org/s3/MFP-Podcast-Bullying-and-Mental-Health (opens on May 8, 2023)

The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

Season 3 of Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! takes off with a conversation on the impact of social media and internet culture on the mental health of adolescents and youth from marginalized communities.

As alarm bells ring, warning of the youth mental health crisis across America, social media and the online experiences of adolescents and young adults have been flagged as contributing factors to many of the worrying behavioral health trends. These include rising rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, among others.

J’Andra Antisdel, SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association doctoral fellow, has been studying this phenomenon and working with young people to address the negative impacts of social media on their mental health. J’Andra joins our host Indrias Kassaye for this exploration of the social media landscape and online behaviors that has behavioral health professionals so worried and shares her insights on how psychiatric mental health nurses and other behavioral health professionals can better respond and make a difference.

J'Andra Lashay Antisdel, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, CNE is a third-year PhD student at Indiana University School of Nursing, in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is also an Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s College, School of Nursing, in Notre Dame, Indiana. J’Andra is a certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and a Certified Nurse Educator through the National League for Nursing (NLN). Her research interests are broadly related to the effects of internet culture and social media on mental health. Specifically, she has focused on signs, symptoms, and risk factors of cyber victimization in teens to identify and address gaps in the research concerning the assessment of teens for cyber victimization in the healthcare setting. Additionally, through her research, she strives to find methods for healthcare professionals to engage teens and promote healthy online behaviors.

For more information about J’Andra Antisdel visit https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/jandra-antisdel

Learn more about the Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association at www.emfp.org

Required Disclosures to Participants – 2023 ANA MFP Podcast Season3:

Episode 1: Social Media and Youth Mental Health

Continuing Nursing Education Disclosures:

- Participants may earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for this session.

- Requirements for CNE credit are to:

1. Listen to the entire podcast.

2. Complete the evaluation after the event.

** Please use the link below to access to complete the evaluation form and to receive your CNE certificate by email. Expiration Date/Deadline: April 25, 2026.

Evaluation Survey Link (opens on April 24, 2023): https://surveys.nursingworld.org/s3/MFP-Social-Media-and-Youth-Mental-Health

The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professionaldevelopment by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17219.

Season 3 premieres Monday, April 24, 2023! Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up, is back for a third season of conversations with psychiatric mental health nurse scientists from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds. 

Our focus this season is nursing’s response to the deepening mental health crisis among adolescents and young adults from communities of color across America. 

Tune in every two weeks for insights from researchers and clinicians responding to the crisis. 

Each podcast offers FREE CNE from the ANA, an ANCC accredited provider of nursing continuing professional development. 

Remember to subscribe at emfp.org, the Minority Fellowship Program’s YouTube channel @mfpana, or on your preferred podcast app. 

Dr. Erica Joseph grew up on the Allendale Plantation (former slave quarters) in Port Allen, just outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her single-mother and grandparents. They made their living as sharecroppers picking cotton in a rural community where modern health care was inaccessible and folk relied on home remedies to treat most ailments. (Sharecropping is a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.)

Dr. Joseph’s grandmother was particularly adept as a healer, sharing her knowledge and skills for the good of the community. In her later years, however, the impact of chronic diabetes, which remained undiagnosed and without appropriate treatment until it was too late, forced the amputation of her grandmother’s legs. 

 Dr. Joseph credits the community-service oriented values instilled by her family, and her time helping with her grandmother’s care, for guiding her towards a career in health care. The realization that had her grandmother been diagnosed and received care sooner she might not have lost her legs, provided additional motivation to focus on improving access to health care in marginalized communities.

Today, SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association alumni, Dr. Erica Joseph, is a DNP and Ph.D. trained psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and scientist serving as Intensive Case Management (MHICM) Co-Lead at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System. Her research interests include suicide prevention and examining the risk and protective factors of suicide among African American veterans, which comes at a critical moment with suicide rates among African American youth and men on the rise.  

Dr. Joseph continues to build on the community service legacy of her family by providing increasingly in-demand counseling and mental health awareness promotion in the parishes of rural Louisiana. She remains a stalwart advocate for ending health care disparities, and has contributed to the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing

Tune in to Season 2, Episode 12 of Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! to hear Dr. Erica Joseph’s triumphant story of grit, resilience, and fortitude that propelled a young girl growing up on a former slave plantation to becoming an accomplished psychiatric mental health nurse scientist making a difference for marginalized groups, including America’s war-hero veterans, in her community and beyond. 

You can learn more about Dr. Erica Joseph at https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/erica-joseph.