{"id":10364,"date":"2025-05-14T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2025-05-14T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:46:16","slug":"peterson-antenor-mental-health-black-youth-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/peterson-antenor-mental-health-black-youth-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterson Ant\u00e9nor Commits to Supporting the Mental Health of Black Youth in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Psychologist Peterson Ant\u00e9nor recently announced on Facebook his new role as a research officer for the Ustawi project, an initiative of the Forum Jeunesse Afro-Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (FJAQ). This project aims to demystify mental health among Black youth aged 18 to 35 in Quebec, focusing on concrete, community-driven, and inclusive actions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUstawi,\u201d which means \u201cwell-being\u201d in Swahili, seeks to understand and address the impacts of racism on the mental health of Afro-descendant youth. Ant\u00e9nor will conduct in-depth research on this topic, drawing on the work of researchers like Jude Mary C\u00e9nat and Daniel Derivois, while bringing a local and current perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum Jeunesse Afro-Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, a non-profit organization based in Quebec, promotes the civic participation of Afro-descendant youth by equipping them to face socio-professional integration challenges and encouraging intercultural dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Ant\u00e9nor expressed his gratitude for this opportunity to contribute to a vital reflection on the well-being of Black communities and invites anyone interested to share their ideas, resources, or experiences on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative comes at a time when acknowledging the effects of systemic racism on mental health is increasingly critical, and when concrete actions are needed to support Afro-descendant youth in their life journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologist Peterson Ant\u00e9nor recently announced on Facebook his new role as a research officer for the Ustawi project, an initiative of the Forum Jeunesse Afro-Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (FJAQ). This project aims to demystify mental health among Black youth aged 18 to 35 in Quebec, focusing on concrete, community-driven, and inclusive actions. \u201cUstawi,\u201d which means \u201cwell-being\u201d in Swahili, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1304],"tags":[1382],"class_list":["post-10364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-peterson-antenor-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10368,"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions\/10368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}