Access For All: Mental Health and Stigma Within The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities

Cross Cultural Expressions Podcast's Podcast

In this episode, we’re joined by Héctor Ramirez and Arash Behtash as we discuss mental health and stigma within the Deaf and hard of hearing communities.

The Access For All Podcast Series aims to explore a variety of topics related to the intersection of Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind, Partially sighted, visually impaired and physically disabled individuals lives as it relates to mental health, well-being and the accessing of mental health services.

The Access For All podcast series is meant to create awareness, reduce stigma, educate and create opportunity for discussion around issues related to the intersection of physical disability and mental health. Through sharing personal stories, challenges, and strengths we will discover how a physical disability can affect our mental health and how the state of our mental health can affect our physical body. We will also explore societal stigma around disability that can affect our mental health and ways that we can overcome them or advocate to change legislation and collective perceptions.

This project has been developed by the private, non-profit organization, Cross Cultural Expressions, in partnership with the Access For All, Underserved Cultural Communities sub-committee of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. For more information on this project or to learn about Cross Cultural Expressions, please visit our website at crossculturalexpressions.org. To receive referrals or resources to mental health services, please call the LACDMH Access Help-line at 1-800-854-7771.