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Running Head: PASSPORT TO MANHOOD

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Located at all Girls and Boys Clubs, Passport to Manhood was founded in 1860 when some females saw that young boys were roaming in the streets, thus the need for positive growth and development. The organization teaches and promotes responsibility and reinforces character development and positive behavior among young boys in society. Since it is challenging to transform boys to men, there is a dire need for organizations like Passport to Manhood.

Passport to Manhood is an organization that ensures males are responsible and that they have positive behavior. It teaches young boys issues concerning the transition to adulthood by addressing issues like wellness, ethics, and conflict careers. The organization offers fourteen sessions that seek to make boys responsible men with dignity, integrity, and value. The first session deals with male stereotypes as they are the major cause of depression among adolescents, and the fifth session discusses healthy lifestyle. After going through the fourteen sessions, males are able to effectively and efficiently handle issues that emerge during the transition period. Other critical issues described in this organization are professionalism, ethics, diversity, selfesteem, and career paths. It also dives into cooperation, decision making, relationships, and ideologies regarding fatherhood. This ensures that boys become valuable men in society. The organization accommodates boys between eight and twelve years and thirteen to seventeen years. However, it should include all young boys, even those not attending girls and boys club. This organization equips young boys with techniques and skills of dealing with depression and anxiety.

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The most popular health disorder is depression, and it is affecting most Africa Americas, especially adolescents. From the most recent review of depression and black males, the prevalence is about 15 to 28%. The risk factors for depression are poverty, unemployment, childhood trauma, and poor income. The major root causes of these factors are the stereotypes levelled on African American males. Due to the complex history of races in the US, the identity of African Americans has altered the experience, treatment, and conceptualization of mental illness. Indeed, mental impaired African Americans are isolated and invalidated from the community. Even though African America males experience the highest rates of depression, their utilization of psychological services is low. They fear seeking help because of discrimination, mistrust of physicians, racism, and economic status. Most black people in the US are subjects to greater levels of violence and poverty, factors that greatly contribute to depression. Children experience high degrees of trauma and collections of racism-related stressors, such as discrimination, brutality, and mass incarceration from law enforcers. All these degrade their mental and emotional health. To eradicate this stigma, there is a need for collaboration of the black community to acknowledge and address the underlying issues. The issues should be approached at the individual, community, healthcare, and social level. Besides, people should be educated on the importance of getting professional assistance rather than resorting to isolation and selfmedication. There is a need for more insight into the mental health of African Americans because overlooking the wellbeing of men in the community adds to their stressors, and this may lose valuable men in the African American community....