ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

APPLICATIONS

PTSD Coach: Mobile App

This mobile app has self-assessments, symptom-tracking, and coping skills to help you address and monitor stress. Available for iOS and Android.

www.ptsd.va.gov

Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.

PTSD Coach Online

A series of online video coaches will guide you through 17 tools to help you manage stress. PTSD Coach Online is used on a computer, rather than a mobile device, and therefore can offer tools that involve writing.

www.ptsd.va.gov

Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.

Mindfulness Coach: Mobile App

This app includes mindfulness exercises to practice on your own or with guidance and strategies to help overcome challenges to mindfulness practice. Includes a log and reminders to support your mindfulness practice. Available for iOS.

www.ptsd.va.gov

Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.

The Safe Place App

App designed for black community to increase awareness, provide education, and a space for discussion. 

apps.apple.com

‎"The Safe Place" Is a Minority Mental Health App geared towards the Black Community. African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the rest of the general population. However, many black people still do not wish to seek professional help for their mental il…

Liberate App

Meditation app designed for BIPOC community with meditations led by BIPOC.

https://liberatemeditation.com

MEDIA

www.npr.org

Research on the psychological effects of racism, especially on people of color, is still in the early stages. But psychologists warn that events like the Charleston shooting can cause serious stress.

ARTICLES

Coping with racial trauma

 University of Georgia Department of Psychology

Article discussing racial trauma, intersectionality, and recommendations for coping.

https://psychology.uga.edu/coping-racial-trauma

Filling our Cups: 4 Ways People of Color can Foster Mental Health and Practice Restorative Healing

solidaritywoc.medium.com

As strong, as brilliant, as loving, and as powerful as we may be, we weren’t built to be superheroes — we were built to be human.

Proactively Coping With Racism

By Monnica T Williams, PhD and Ryan DeLapp M.A.

Article discussing the depictions of violence against Black Americans in the media and a discussion of harmful versus helpful coping methods for racial stress.  

www.psychologytoday.com

Getting back to our lives in the aftermath of racial violence in the media.

Mental Health Resources

44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country

By Zahra Barnes 

List of people, podcasts, brands, organizations, and Black or allied therapist networks.

www.self.com

Because we need and deserve support.