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On Wednesday, September 03, 2025, Let’s Unpack It, with the support of the Pan American Health Organization, Healthy Caribbean Youth, and the Ministry of Health and Wellness (Barbados), convened a suicide prevention youth forum of 40 young people, that aimed to dismantle barriers, confront stigma, and foster solutions rooted in cultural sensitivity and evidence-based advocacy.

By McKenzie Gooding   •  November 15, 2024 Team LUI with members of the UWI Cave Hill Chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU), November 15, 2024. All too often, there is a tendency to draw a firm line in the sand between our faith and what we know about mental health. Discussions of mental health, let alone mental illness, have long been considered taboo in the Caribbean, with poor mental health often being chalked up to some sort of spiritual disturbance that can (and sho

By McKenzie Gooding   • August 21, 2024 As an organization created by and for Caribbean youth, the team at Let’s Unpack It is all too familiar with the reality of living in a region constantly at the mercy of nature. Hurricanes, in particular, are part and parcel of life in the Caribbean, powerful, unforgiving natural disasters which devastate communities and even entire countries. For anyone paying attention, the name Beryl - in all its destructive glory - probably rings a

Statement from Let’s Unpack It on the recent death by suicide in Barbados.

On an Instagram Live, jointly hosted by the Barbados Association of Psychiatrists and Let's Unpack It, ahead of World Mental Health Day,...