ARMHA-NJ
Anti-Racist Mental Health Alliance
Mission Statement:
The Anti-Racist Mental Health Alliance of New Jersey (ARMHA-NJ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to examining and addressing the racial inequities in the mental health field and society at large. ARMHA-NJ includes mental health professionals, consumers of mental health services, and others who are committed to addressing racism in mental health training, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and services in our communities. Our mission is to actively identify racism in ourselves, in others, as well as in social systems, structures, and institutions in order to promote equitable ideas and policies in mental health services, education, and the training of mental health professionals throughout New Jersey.
Values
We value:
- Diversity in all its manifestations, understanding that an antiracist perspective is requisite to building effective coalitions for social change.
- The continuous examination of our own internalized racial oppression (racial superiority and inferiority), because we consider this exploration to be an essential aspect of doing anti-racist work. •The critical examination of societal systems in order to address explicit and implicit bias and to create equitable antiracist systems. We believe that the mental health of all people is negatively impacted by racism in all of its manifestations, and we strive to eradicate it through the establishment of an anti-racist community and society.
ARMHA-NJ embraces and builds upon the organizing principles of the Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB): undoing racism; learning from history; sharing culture; developing leadership; maintaining accountability; networking; analyzing power; gatekeeping; undoing internalized racial oppression (internalized racial superiority and internalized racial inferiority); and identifying and analyzing manifestations of racism.