Growing up in some of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods isn't easy. That's where the Getcha Mind Right program comes in.
Growing up in some of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods isn't easy.
"When a car rides past them, having to turn their head and just make sure that nothing's getting ready to happen," explains Pha'tal Perkins, founder and executive director of Think Outside Da Block. "They would not have access to a private practice clinician under any other circumstance and so I wanted them to have a first-class experience and introduce them to therapy," said Dr. Nyela Malone, CEO of Lotus Healing."When I first came, I was shy to talk and a couple of weeks through I got better and I got new coping mechanisms," said 14-year-old Mikel Robinson.
"By the time I graduated high school, I had lost 9 friends to violence and two committed suicide," said Perkins. "There was never any mental health services or counseling or anything offered to me or my peers so I had to learn how to deal with it, how to get through it how to grow through it, on my own."
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