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The Cope Dealer and Hip-Hop Therapy Studio programs are helping teens take control of their mental health by turning their pain into art.

Hip-hop has always been an outlet for pain and triumph. So it makes sense it's also a form of therapy.

The Cope Dealer program in Cleveland, Ohio, is a 14-week mental health awareness workshop using hip-hop therapy to help students deal with daily stressors and trauma. Teens learn coping skills like journaling and breath management and apply them to a song they write together.

"You could come here, make music, listen to instrumentals like you're having fun… and then at the same time, you have people you can relate to and that build you up," Sydney Quinn, a Cope Dealer participant at Glenville High School, said.

According to the American Psychiatric Association, only 1 in 3 African Americans who need mental health care receive it. Created in 2016, the program is part of Peel Dem Layers Back and has a mission of bridging the Black mental health gap.

"Meeting them where they're at… going to their environments where they feel safe and they're already in, helps them to open up and be vulnerable," said Jerome Cash, a licensed therapist and Cope Dealer program facilitator.

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