Mental Health Disparities

Mental Health Disparities

1. • Black adults are less likely to receive mental health services compared to white adults. From 2008 to 2012, only 30% of Black adults with any mental illness received mental health services, compared to 46.3% of white adults.

   • When mental health care is accessed by people of color, it tends to be of poorer quality, partly due to a lack of cultural competence among providers and a predominantly white mental health workforce (86% of psychologists were white as of 2015)​ (NAMI)​​ ​.