NAMI CC African American

NAMI Contra Costa offers statewide support services to African Americans in need of support.

Our Crisis Counselors are made up of African Americans with lived experience as peers and family members with specific subject matter expertise via our COVID-19 Warmline.

NAMI CC provides culturally sensitive, non-clinical crisis counseling for African Americans, by African Americans.

We provide resources, information, and support people finding their way during difficult times, such as the pandemic and social unrest. We work with African American faith leaders across the state to facilitate training sessions, dispel misinformation, and to reach the broader community.

COVID-19 highlighted a history of racism and unequal access to healthy environments, opportunities, and resources needed for wellness in communities of color. Living under such conditions can make it harder to prevent and control chronic conditions like high blood pressure, asthma, heart disease, and diabetes.

People with these underlying health conditions, cancer, or uncontrolled HIV are at greater risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19.