Scune Carrington -

Scune Carrington

Public Health Social Worker

Dr. Carrington is a strategic public health practitioner, licensed clinical social worker, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in both clinical and administrative leadership. She currently serves as the Chief Clinical Officer and Wellness Clinic Director at the New American Association of Massachusetts. An award-winning researcher and passionate advocate for health equity, Dr. Carrington specializes in innovative, trauma-informed approaches to care delivery for underserved and minoritized communities. Her work bridges public health, clinical social work, and implementation science, with a focus on leveraging technology to improve outcomes and reduce systemic disparities. Dr. Carrington earned her Doctor of Health Science degree with Alpha Eta honors from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where her capstone: “A 21st Century tool adapted for today's workforce: Training behavioral health graduates to improve their job performance through the integration of natural language processing (NLP) in clinical documentation ”won the 2024 Doctor of Health Science Capstone Award. She also holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (BA) and Boston College (MSW), where she was the recipient of Dean’s leadership award and the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award. Her research interests include improvement science, digital inequities, the integration of AI in behavioral health training.

Massachusetts

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Telemental Health through a Racial Justice and Health Equity Lens

Scune Carrington, MSW, LICSW

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November 09, 2021

Telehealth has become an increasingly popular method of delivery of health-related services. Under the umbrella of telehealth lies telemental health (TMH). Although this type of modality has been around for quite some time, it was not until the arrival of Covid-19 during 2020-2021 that the United States healthcare system began to fully accept, embrace, and implement TMH. Due to public health restrictions related to Covid-19, in person therapy and other social services were prohibited (or restricted) thus relying on TMH. This article discusses the link between a racial justice lens, minority stress theory, health equity and identifies barriers/challenges in telemental health that do not reflect equity in health for racial minorities including Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Latinx communities, and all communities of color.