While Suicide Prevention Month in September raises national awareness of mental health challenges, for Deamond Robinson, assisting young people who may be experiencing feelings of depression and anxiety is all in a day’s work.
Robinson serves as a certified peer specialist in mental health for the Empowerment Resource Center Inc. (ERC) to help transgender youth and other LGBTQ young people find resources and mental health assistance.
He said many trans youth often end up experiencing discrimination from various social and political spaces, even internally within the LGBTQ community, making it hard for them to find for many to feel safe and protected.
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