Andrea Brown and the Black Mental Health Alliance discuss 2024 agenda

By Aria Brent AFRO Staff Writerabrent@afro.com For the last 40 years the Black Mental Health Alliance(BMHA) has been healing and helping the people of Baltimore.& Trusted in the community, the organization routinely puts on culturally-relevant educational forums and offers referral services that support the health and well-being of Black people and their communities. The organization has a mission focused on developing, promoting and sponsoring trainings that support mental health education efforts.& Andrea Brown has been leading the Black Mental Health Alliance for nearly four years and shared that the organization has a lot of exciting initiatives happening in 2024. CREDIT: Andrea Brown /Images Courtesy of blackmentalhealth.com BMHA executive director, Andrea Brown, and other members of their team spoke with the AFRO about the plans they have for the year 2024.& & “The community is facing trauma that is related to the systemic racism that continues today,” said Brown, who has been the executive director of BMHA since March of 2020.&  “The community is facing trauma that is related to the systemic racism that continues today. We need to call that out because we often feel less than that, but it’s based on a system of oppression that has come down...