DER Weekends: WDET’s Shustho series explores how mental health barriers affect Bangladeshi women
This episode of Detroit Evening Report Weekends features the final story in Nargis Rahman’s Shustho series, highlighting how Bangladeshi mental health care workers are breaking stigma and expanding access to care in metro Detroit.
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On this episode of Detroit Evening Report Weekends, we listen to the last story in WDET reporter Nargis Rahman’s series Shustho.
The four-part series explores the barriers Bangladeshi women face in accessing high-quality health care, and efforts to bridge those gaps.
Michigan is home to the third largest population of Bangladeshis in the U.S., most living in the metro Detroit area.
In this story, we discuss how Bangladeshi mental health care workers are working toward breaking the stigma and filling the gap for more counselors in the Bangladeshi community.
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