{"id":875575,"date":"2026-10-08T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875575\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:30:08","slug":"amarillo-naacp-hosting-mental-health-forum-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875575\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo NAACP hosting mental health forum on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Amarillo NAACP is conducting a Mental Health Forum, focused on people of color, in the Amarillo Area Foundation auditorium at the corner of 10th and Polk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The forum is this Saturday, October 10, from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The forum is the first of its kind in the region to focus on people of color, Alphonso Vaughn, NAACP Amarillo Branch President said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A coffee and donut period from 9:30 to 10 a.m. will precede the forum. The forum will begin with an overview of mental health issues in the Amarillo community, presented by Shree Veermacheni, MPA and PMP, Executive Director of the Panhandle Mental Health Alliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The first panel will describe common mental health issues and how to recognize the symptoms in your loved ones, Vaughn said. The second panel will provide valuable information about community resources available to families in mental health crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The forum is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Amarillo NAACP is conducting a Mental Health Forum, focused on people of color,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[368479,97,259,260,9948],"class_list":["post-875575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-amarillo-area-foundation","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-naacp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}