Prevention Strategies: Prevention and Promotion in Child Mental Health

An ecologically informed transdisciplinary prevention model for Black and Latine family wellbeing

“…Interventions with Black and Latine families, including those in the realm of mental health and psychological wellbeing, are traditionally embedded in deficit perspectives about these communities—often ignoring their cultural wealth and knowledge, their collective agency, and their connection to community, place, and space (Gonzalez et al., 2005; Moll, 2019; Holland, 2017; Scott et al., 2021). To address deficit perspectives, there have been a number of recent calls from mental health scholars and practitioners for a greater focus on empowerment and prevention rather than intervention efforts (Fusar‐Poli et al., 2021; Blaisdell et al., 2023) and the use of community‐based initiatives that center and empower Black and Latine families (Evans et al., 2023; Jensen & Case, 2022).…”