{"id":50780,"date":"2021-05-12T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=50780"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:49:55","slug":"jamil-stamschror-lott-16-msw-alumnus-featured-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2021\/05\/12\/jamil-stamschror-lott-16-msw-alumnus-featured-in-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamil Stamschror-Lott &#8217;16 MSW Alumnus Featured in The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50781\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/05\/Jamil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/05\/Jamil-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Jamil speaking with students\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/05\/Jamil-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/05\/Jamil-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/05\/Jamil.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Stamschror-Lott leading a community healing session. Photo credit: The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, mental health experts across the country say they have seen African-Americans, whose skepticism of therapy has been documented by research, seeking it in growing numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Jamil and Sara Stamschror-Lott, the founders of Creative Kuponya, a mental health practice in Minneapolis, said the demand for therapy had \u201cgone through the roof\u201d over the past year. The couple said 31 percent of their practice\u2019s clients are Black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen everything that the nation has seen from afar, from folks in civil unrest and devastation, despair,\u201d said Mr. Stamschror-Lott. The couple said that some residents were overwhelmed and exhausted by the events of the past year, and that there remained a \u201cgreat deal of pain and trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/09\/us\/trauma-therapy-black-community.html?referringSource=articleShare\">View the full story<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, mental health experts across the country &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[32,224,849,299],"class_list":["post-50780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights","tag-alumni","tag-augsburg-alumni","tag-augsburg-university","tag-young-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50780"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50789,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50780\/revisions\/50789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}