Cyrell Roberson: Connecting People with Culturally Competent Healthcare Providers
Cyrell: Well, Spiffy, do you know that finding culturally responsive healthcare providers in mental health and medicine can be a challenging and daunting process, especially for people of color and the LGBTQIA+ community? Struggling with an illness—like cancer, anxiety, and depression—can often be a lonely experience, especially during times like this. For clinicians, getting advice from other clinicians and outside referrals for clinicians within and across different specialties can often be a cumbersome task that's limited to one's professional network. Cultural competency training is often inconsistent, inadequate, and sometimes non-existent for healthcare providers.