Irene Jacobs

Social Justice Advocate. @VCU Clinical Psychology PhD Student. Child Risk & Resilience. Social Determinants of Mental Health. 1st Gen. Salone American 🇸🇱.

[@DrBritWilliams on 🦋sky @DrBritWilliams]

There’s an Amanda Gorman at every HS you call underperforming, inner city, and/or the G word.

Honor. Black. Students. Art.

#InaugurationDay

[Dr. La Shawn M. Paul, DSW, LCSW-R @TheSWDiva]

Repeat after me: Mental health is public health.

Mental health is public health.

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

"Nearly one in three Black Americans knows someone personally who has died of COVID-19. The death rate among Black individuals is up to 10 times higher than among white individuals." https://t.co/orRodQ95U7

[a "Black-passing" Latina. @aliciasanchez]

I have so much to say about the news coming out that ICE has been performing forced sterilizations on detainees. 1. Activists have been begging us, especially our anti-violence movements, to pay attention to sexual and reproductive violence faced by women, trans and cis and queer

[Irene Jacobs @IJacobs_]

September 15, 1963 in Birmingham, AL. #4LittleGirls

[Dr Nicole Christian Brathwaite, MD @Drnicolecb]

A part of being trauma informed means understanding that you cannot define what is trauma for someone else. What may seem minimal for you, may be highly triggering for someone else. Do not minimize another's person's pain. #traumainformed #traumsensitive

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

I keep thinking about my 3-year-old in his Black Panther costume. How he wore it almost every day when he got it, refused to take it off. The way he walked around saying “I’m the Black Panther.” How happy it made him. What Chadwick gave us was immeasurable. What an enormous loss.

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

Medical education often teaches that disease is a byproduct of an individual's choices & behavior (smoking, alcohol, dietary habits, etc.) when in fact socioeconomic factors, of which structural racism is a key driving force, have the largest impact.

cc: @CDCgov

[Irene Jacobs @IJacobs_]

If you conduct disparities research in black and brown communities and are able to compartmentalize your emotions and focus on your work in this moment, please check your true commitment to enhancing the quality of life for your “participants”

[SCCAP @SCCAP53]

In school-based mental health services, many have noted racial/ethnic disparities in accessing treatment. Guo et al. (2017) explores the effect that universal screening might have on these disparities. Access the article here: https://t.co/VVvAr9Ao3j

[Meaghan Lynch Collins @MeaghanBLynch]

Today is #BlackWomensEqualPayDay. AUGUST 13- which means Black women worked up until today to earn the same as her white male counterparts did last year. We’ve got to close the racial and gender pay gaps and make equity a reality.

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

The pandemic has exposed deep racial health inequities. @APMResearch has been diligently tracking racial and ethnic mortality data. They asked 10 thought leaders across disciplines, including myself, the following questions.

My complete answer below.

THREAD.

[African American Policy Forum @AAPolicyForum]

"Things were healthy."

[ACLU @ACLU]

Failing to do schoolwork is not a crime. This student must be released.

🗣️ The school to prison pipeline must end.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL HAS BEEN JAILED FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS FOR NOT DOING HER HOMEWORK. A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL HAS BEEN JAILED FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS FOR NOT DOING HER HOMEWORK. A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL HAS BEEN JAILED FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS FOR NOT DOING HER HOMEWORK.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Rep. John Lewis in 2019: "When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation ... to do something. Our children and their children will ask us, 'what did you do?' …. We have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history."

[Remembering Karen L. Williams @Karen4ward7sboe]

There’s nothing like having someone just discount everything WE say about No Police in Schools. I live in Ward7, lived in Ward8. We have a voice. We need new and innovative approaches that work for our students. Good job Irene. I agree with @BlackSwanAcad #PoliceFreeSchools

[Dr. Monica Cox @DrMonicaCox]

I know why microaggressions affect people’s health.

There’s disbelief, confusion, anger, disappontment, & frustration at the occurrence.

You wait for somebody to correct the prob, but they don’t.

You figure out how to stay sane & keep moving bc you have no other choice.