Sorority marks Mental Health Awareness Month with talk focused on Black community

SPRINGFIELD — Black community, take what you’ve been taught about mental health, and shake it up and throw it away, says clinical social worker Sheril Cooley.

The month of May marks Mental Health Awareness Month. In recognition, a Black women’s sorority, the Beta Alpha Zeta Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Inc., on Sunday hosted family therapists Dr. Winifred Martin of the Tribe Institute and Andrea St. Louis of the Tatted Professionals, along with the Pioneer Valley Coalition for Suicide Prevention and Families Against Violence, at its monthly luncheon meeting at the Eagles Hall on St. James Avenue.