Silent Cry Inc. Hosts Investment Day Mental Health And Wellness Fair At Michigan's Bradford Academy High School

Human rights organization Silent Cry Inc. hosted the Investment Day Mental Health And Wellness Fair at Michigan's Bradford Academy High School, addressing issues of young people's social-emotional needs and impacts of layered economic, cultural and racial trauma.

We are living in different times and places. So much has changed in the last five years that we must rethink raising our children, what we teach them, and how we can help others.  It is very difficult to get help in a major way from one person, but we found that help in Shawanna E. Vaughn of Silent Cry Inc. She responded to our cry for help in ways we have never seen before. There was no discussion. She recognized the need for a mental health and wellness platform in our school and made it happen. Our organization, Silent Cry Inc., sponsored a day of speakers, gifts, food and much more. Silent Cry Inc. paid travel expenses for all speakers and made a major investment a day that made a dramatic impact on our children.

Hundreds of accidents, homicides, and suicide are the leading causes of death by teenagers. Accidents whether it is accidental shootings, drug overdoses, or death by homicide are costing us too many young people. Teen years that should be the absolute best time of a young person’s life continue to trend towards the worst times they will ever know – if they survive.

Mental health should be our primary focus because it adversely affects the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) populations. Even students recognize the prejudice in services rendered in our communities and schools.