Interview with Shayna Wilson and Amber Mendes
Date2020 December 8
Mediumborn digital video
DimensionsDuration: 51 Minutes, 59 Seconds
Credit LineGift of the CHS Exhibitions Department
DescriptionInterview with Shayna Wilson and her daughter, Amber Mendes about their experience with mental health. Topics discussed include mental health stigmas, mental health facilities, the African American community, deaf and hard of hearing people, the American School for the Deaf (ASD), therapy, American Sign Lanuage (ASL), advocacy, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Family First initiative, death from COVID-19 and grief, and maintaining mental health.
Object number2022.5.19
Subject Terms
- Interviews
- Oral history
- Mental health
- Exhibitions
- Health
- Oral narratives
- Mental health facilities
- Mental disorders
- Mental health services
- Mental health stigmas
- Therapy and counseling
- American School, at Hartford, for the Deaf
- American Sign Language
- African American children
- African American women
- African Americans
- Activism and advocacy
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
- Death
- Grief
- Born Digital Videos
- Interviews and Oral Histories
- Hartford
- Common Struggle, Individual Experience: An Exhibition About Mental Health Collection
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