Barry Cooper is founder of the BRO Experience, a Brooklyn-based organization that uses cognitive behavioral therapy at the center of its approach to mental health support for young men of color. He is among this year’s winners of the David Prize, which each year goes to five New Yorkers with an extraordinary idea for change.

Cooper joined us to discuss his own adolescence growing up in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and how his first early career as a barber informed his approach with the BRO Experience. We also talked about a new short
documentary about the organization — We All Deserve to Be Well — and what he plans to do with the $200,000 that comes with the David Prize.

Note one: We will discuss President Trump’s executive order on foster care in a
subsequent episode, but a link to reporter Michael Fitzgerald’s coverage of the
order is in our show notes.

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Reading Room

The BRO Experience

https://www.thebroexperience.org/

We All Deserve to Be Well (Trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmY6hyXG5j8&t=10s

The David Prize

https://thedavidprize.org/

With New Executive Order, Trump Thrusts Foster Care Into National Spotlight

https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/with-new-executive-order-trump-thrusts-foster-care-into-national-spotlight/268739