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Mental Health Equity for All Lunch and Learn Series (MHEALLS) 

From February 2022 to April 2024, MHEP hosted a total of 16 monthly discussion groups (Mental Health Equity for All Lunch and Learn Series, aka MHEALLS) around various issues pertinent to achieving health equity for all people.  

Mental Health Equity Track (MHET) Psychiatry residents have led the discussions and there has been an increasing presence of Psychiatry faculty and staff engaging during these sessions.  

This series has expanded to non-clinical staff members who engage in mental health research or clinical teams. This is in alignment with MHEP’s goal to support a more inclusive environment for all who work to provide care in some capacity to the communities we serve. 

Below are the topics for the 16 sessions from 2022-2024:  

  • Mental health and racism 
  • Mental health of asylum seekers and refugees 
  • Mental health of Indigenous Americans: explanatory models of illness and healing 
  • Mental health of Black Americans: Generational differences, religion, and assumptions of trauma and monolithic experience 
  • Gentrification 
  • Gender diverse adolescents 
  • Schools, race, and mental health 
  • Incarceration, race, and mental health 
  • Race in case presentations 
  • Latina, Latino, and Latinx mental health 
  • Body size bias 
  • Carceral system and mental health equity 
  • Child welfare system and mental health equity 
  • Intersection of mental health and disability 
  • Discussion of Origins movie and Caste book  
  • Developing a culture of belonging 

 

Origins Movie and Caste Discussion 

The MHEP hosted a free movie screening of Origin on February 28, 2024 at AMC Southpoint for 25 Psychiatry faculty, staff, and trainees. 

The film focused on America’s racial caste system and attendees also received a copy of Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents, the book that the film is based on.  

Following the movie screening, Dr. Anthony Kulukulualani facilitated a hybrid discussion on the origin and history of caste systems in different societies and tangible action steps that can be taken to address the modern-day mental health impacts of a caste system.