{"id":7774,"date":"2023-04-13T09:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T13:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2024-09-18T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T00:52:53","slug":"project-launch-of-retooling-black-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/project-launch-of-retooling-black-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Launch of Retooling Black Anxiety: Examining Anxiety and Mental Health Issues Among Black Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The recently launched \u201cRetooling Black Anxiety\u201d project at 快播视频 looks to examine increased anxiety among Black youth and families who have had encounters with the criminal justice system (CJS).<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With $35,000 in internal pilot phase funding from the Faculty of Health, the project is led by two York professors: serving as principal investigator is Professor Godfred Boateng<\/strong>, director, Global & Environmental Health Lab and Faculty Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; co-investigator is Dlamini Nombuso<\/strong>, a professor in the Faculty of Education whose work focuses on youth, especially racialized youth within leadership and political systems. Partnerships with the Ghana Union of Canada (GUC) and Gashanti Unity (GU) is also a critical component of the project in order to help lead community-based research activities and intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n