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The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and Beyond $avvy Consumers will host the online event "Advancing Economic Advocacy and Equity for Justice-Impacted Consumers" on April 25.

Chyrell D Bellamy, PhD, MSW, professor of psychiatry, is one of five people named to the Online Museum of African American Addictions, Treatment and Recovery Hall of Fame.

Megan Evans, PhD, MS, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Program for Recovery and Community Health, is author of the book, "Peer Support Services Reaching People with Schizophrenia: Considerations for Research and Practice."

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) partnered with Witnesses to Hunger in New Haven to conduct a six-week advocacy training program between January 3 and February 7.

Oluwole Jegede, MD, MPH; Chyrell Bellamy, PhD; and Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD are co-authors of a viewpoint in JAMA Psychiatry titled, "Systemic Racism as a Determinant of Health Inequities for People With Substance Use Disorder."

Kimberly Guy, Richard Youins, and Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, are co-authors of the essay "Reimagining Holistic Care for Black People: Black Americans With Lived Experience Reflect" published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Brandee M. Izquierdo, DPA, MPA, lecturer in psychiatry, and Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Journal of Offender Rehabilitation that assesses drug court employees’ readiness and perceived commitment to peer worker integration.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health published a special edition of the Journal of Public Mental Health to mark the 10th anniversary of the International Recovery and Citizenship Collective. Guest editors are Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW; Graziela Reis, MPH; Helen Hamer, PhD, RN; and Gillian MacIntyre, PhD.

Representatives of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and the City of New Haven’s Office of Community Mental Initiatives worked with an artist to create a 50-foot mural at the corner of Blatchley and Grand avenues in New Haven.