New Year, New Vision

Many people start of the new year with a traditional New Year’s resolution to change their behavior, start a new goal or accomplish something different at the start of the year. Common resolutions include things like losing weight, exercising more, spending less money...

Beating The Holiday Blues

1. Understanding the holiday blues: Let’s talk about why this is such a topic? Expectations of what the holidays “should” be are unrealistic Pressure to feel merry & joyousHolidays can be really difficult for people, particularly those who have...

Greetings from Dr. Lena Green

Dear FCBC Family & Community, As the new Executive Director of HOPE Center Harlem, I am delighted to work alongside you in a new and exciting way! We’re at a time in our history when meeting competing demands, in the midst of a global pandemic and racial...

Can a Psychiatric Research Project Further Mental Health Education in Harlem?Article Reposted from The Eye – The Columbia Spectator By Victoria Li  Dr. Sidney Hankerson sits in a circle with reverends, pastors, social workers, public health...

When Religion Leads to Trauma

By Richard Schiffman Feb. 5, 2019 Reposted from the NY Times. “We think of church as a place of healing and transformation, and it is,” says Michael Walrond Jr., pastor of the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. But for some, he says, “religion has been...