Martina Moore is CEO of a successful Cleveland-based counseling and mediation service agency. Most of her clients (70%) are white and many have access to her advanced treatment like equine therapy and psychiatry to treat substance use disorders (SUD) and mental illness.
But Moore is well aware of the painful reality that for many Black and Latino people, treatment for behavioral health disorders is harder to obtain and the consequences are much harsher. That knowledge fuels the work she is doing…