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CEO Aaron Mallory was featured on 25 News Now discussing the work GRO Community is doing in Peoria.
“The leading cause of death for black boys between the ages of 0 and 35 is homicide,” Mallory said. “A lot of that is tied to trauma and mental health challenges that go unaddressed.”
Mallory explained that this starts with attacking common ideas of what it is to be a man.
“We have to change the stigma of what we think masculinity is. You know this, I gotta be tough, I gotta be hard, take on the world. The John Henryism idea of just work, work, work. I gotta compete to beat the machine.”
According to Mallory, families play a vital role in this process.
Full article on 25 News Now: Peoria group hopes to reduce stigma of mental health in Black men