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Mistrust lingers in Black communities amid 988 launch

This undated image provided by Joyce Coleman shows Joyce Coleman at her office in Minneapolis. Mental illness afflicted a few members of Coleman's family, but treatment was never discussed. As a care coordinator at HealthPartners, a Minneapolis health care provider and insurance company, she works to reduce the stigma of mental illness through conversation and education. Ministry work has offered her a venue to build connections with people the mental health system struggles to reach. (Joyce Coleman via AP) Sitaniel Wimbley poses for a photo at her office, the headquarters for NAMI Mississippi in Ridgeland, Miss., on July 11, 2022. As director of the Mississippi chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Wimbley is working to strengthen connections between mental health programs and people skeptical of their services. The work takes on a renewed urgency after the federal government launched the United States' first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline on July 16. (AP Photo/Michael Goldberg)
Mistrust lingers in Black communities amid 988 launch