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Social workers help others resolve problems and obtain resources, provide support during crises and facilitate social responses to needs. Here are two Latina social work majors who represent great examples of that definition.
The new center wants to meet the needs of the Latino and Hispanic populations statewide.
For many years, it’s been challenging for Latinx community members in Rhode Island to find a bilingual mental health provider. The pandemic only made that prospect worse. In fact, Rhode Island’s behavioral healthcare workforce, which is primarily white and English-speaking, does not reflect the racial and cultural diversity of state residents and efforts must be made to close this gap, according to a 2021 report by the Mental Health Association of Rhode Island.