It shouldn’t be that mental health is found only in the richest neighborhoods in a city, and yet, that is how it has seemed to shake out in New York, where psychologists offices pepper the Upper East Side, West Village and Williamsburg, but are nowhere to be found in Flatbush or Bedford-Stuyvesant. But at least one person is trying to change that, and he just got some help from the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL).

Lawrence Lovell is a mental health counselor who grew up in East Flatbush and still lives in Brooklyn. He’s the creator of Breakthrough Solutions, a counseling and workshop startup that just won the PowerUP! Kreyol competition, which is organized by the BPL. In the competition, Lovell received business plan advice, pitching advice and a $5,000 check to get his idea off the ground.

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