Professional Mental Health Programs

Our Professional Mental Health Services (PMHS) intervention contributes to the overall objectives of violence reduction by increasing participants, staff and other community residents’ range of positive coping skills and mutually supportive relationships. PMHS program components are designed to mobilize community-based, licensed mental health professionals with the goal of building core participants’ capacity to recognize and heal from multi-generational traumatic exposure to gun violence, including the King of Kings Foundation’s staff and community members impacted by gun violence with trauma-focused individual, family, and group therapy to promote community-level healing and wellness. Our PHM program employs Journey Coaching, Counseling and Consulting (JCCC), licensed mental health professionals whose familiarity with the issue, cultural attunement, clinical skill, and experience allows them to be viewed as culturally sensitive credible messengers by CV participants and community members who may have found typical mental health services culturally insensitive, inaccessible or stigmatizing. PMHS program components include individual and group counseling, mindfulness, meditation, fitness activities, exposure to cultural activities, professional development activities, and rites of passage programming for youth and adults we serve.