A new program launched in the Kent City School District is helping Black boys and men address and improve their mental health. But they’re not just doing it through words, they’re also using music to find a light through the darkness.
“We are uplifting each other in the best way possible,” said K’vyayer Hill, a junior at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent.
“The program corresponds with really your life because it can take some of the really cool techniques and stuff that they use for mental health and we kind of just apply that to our lives,” said Hill. Green said the program received partial funding from the Cleveland Foundation. He said guidance counselors at Theodore Roosevelt High School asked him to do a workshop for Peel Dem Layers Back at the school, and four Black male students talked to him afterwards, inspiring him to pitch the Cope Dealer Initiative to school administrators.
“These young Black men can look at me or another Black male talking about these feelings. It gives them permission to be vulnerable, permission to really tap into those emotions that are inside,” said Green. “It's about bringing out those types of emotions that lead to creating or bringing out something that's been there the entire time. And that's the power of music, the power of art, but also the power of communicating to someone that looks like you.
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