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  • Productive Discomfort: A Job Training Program for Single Moms That Centers Mental Health | Death, Sex & Money | WNYC Studios

    December 06, 2023 |

    WNYC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    A job training program for single moms experiencing poverty, called Climb Wyoming, runs 14, 12-week training sessions per year. The program provides wraparound support for the moms alongside the skills training, including mental health support, life skills training, and help navigating the criminal justice system.

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  • Need Therapy? In West Africa, Hairdressers Can Help.

    November 26, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Togo

    The Bluemind Foundation is working with mental health professionals to provide training to hairdressers to teach them how to ask open-ended questions, spot nonverbal cues of distress in clients, provide comfort to those experiencing mental health crises and refer them to trained therapists. The goal of the training is to help fill the mental health care gap in an area where counseling is often not accessible or accepted by society. So far, 150 hairdressers have received the training and been dubbed “mental health ambassadors.”

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  • Cree kids become recording artists talking about mental health, friendship and culture

    November 10, 2023 |

    CBC |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    Cree youth in Calgary, Alberta, are expressing their views and experiences by writing, recording, and performing original music. The program, called Nikamo, is part of a collaboration between a local theater and a nonprofit focused on supporting youth mental health.

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  • Local pediatric mental health supports improving, but demand still not met

    November 04, 2023 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    Amongst an increased need for mental health care, Monadnock Family Services is offering group therapy to children to get them in for some level of care as staff shortages make offering individual therapy too difficult. The American Psychological Association found that group therapy is as effective as individual therapy for most conditions — as well as more efficient. Monadnock Family Services offers a variety of groups depending on a patient’s interests and identity, like groups for those who enjoy hiking to groups for members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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  • Trauma to triumph: ASHA helping women overcome depression in India

    October 09, 2023 |

    Devex |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India

    To help provide rural access to mental health care in India, ASHAs (appointed female healthcare workers) work in their local communities to identify and support women in need. By providing free listening and support services in addition to their medical care, ASHAs have helped thousands of impoverished women recover from depression.

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  • How Colorado training programs aim to cut mental health care stigma among farmers and ranchers

    October 03, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Colorado Agricultural Addiction and Mental Health Program (CAAMHP) works to make mental health care more accessible by offering residents six free counseling sessions with licensed behavioral health professionals who have completed culturally relevant training in order to better connect with farmers and ranchers facing mental health issues. So far more than 30 clinicians have completed the training and there are about 15 therapists working with CAAMHP, helping to provide care and reduce stigma surrounding mental health in the farm and ranch industry.

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  • Ukraine Starts Unpacking Mental Trauma as War Rages On

    September 19, 2023 |

    Direct Relief |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine, Kharkiv

    The “Together with You” center employs psychologists to provide mental health care to civilians in need, including children. Similar centers have also emerged in the area to address rising mental health concerns, like Kimnara Pidtrymky (Support Room) to provide free psychological services to children, both in person and online. These centers — and others like them — often collaborate all in an effort to reduce mental health stigma in the country.

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  • How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

    September 15, 2023 |

    KQED |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    The Fresno Center provides immigration services and culturally relevant mental health care to members of the Southeast Asian community. The Center provides therapy in native languages and works to destigmitize mental health in an effort to heal decades of generational trauma.

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  • A Different Kind of Grief

    September 14, 2023 |

    MindSite News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philly HEALs is a free bereavement support program for people who have lost a loved one to a fatal overdose. The program offers grief counseling and peer support groups for families, teens and children, allowing them a safe space to talk about their experiences and find community among others who can relate.

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  • A digital refuge for male survivors of sexual abuse

    August 29, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    Boys Without Borders provides boys who experienced sexual abuse with a support system and educational resources to help them overcome social and mental health issues they may be facing. With the group’s 65 student volunteers, they have helped more than 2,500 boys since launching in 2020.

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