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Questa program reframes opioid treatment in rural New Mexico

JR Logan

August 04, 2016 |

The Taos News |

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Response Location: United States, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

A comprehensive rehabilitation facility in Taos, New Mexico uses a holistic approach to curbing addiction by offering group therapy along with traditional medical treatment. By addressing deeper mental and emotional factors that can lead to addiction, the Questa Health Center has enabled addicts to face their demons head-on, with constant support.

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After the Violence and Videos, Therapists Learn to Treat Racial Trauma

Jaime Alfaro

July 22, 2016 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

Black communities are often left without adequate counseling services when faced with racial trauma, but clinical psychologists are working to address this. So far, solutions include opening clinics that specialize in African-American mental health and social media campaigns focused on normalizing conversations around mental health awareness in the Black community.

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Roanoke initiative shifts from arresting addicts to helping them

Amy Friedenberger

July 21, 2016 |

The Roanoke Times |

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Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

In one year, the drug overdoses in Roanoke, VA have taken 12 lives and another 76 have overdosed but survived. The police department developed a new program called the Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative, designed to provide rehabilitation without arrest for those who seek it. The program simulates the successful national effort to help drug abusers instead of incarcerating them.

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In Kenya, HIV-Positive Prisoners Combat Stigma, Trauma With Support Groups' Help

Lydia Matata

July 13, 2016 |

Global Press Journal |

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Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

Among the challenges for HIV-positive inmates are lack of food that meets their dietary needs and susceptibility to tuberculosis. The support groups, part of an HIV prevention and care program active in all the nation’s prisons, mitigate those challenges and create awareness about HIV prevention and care.

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Pathways to Peace: Philadelphia's Healing Hurt People helps violence victims recover

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Healing Hurt People program, or HHP, is an ER-based violence intervention program that works on the public health-based notion that violence - like other diseases that spread - can be prevented. It targets services to those at highest risk, patients like those in Philadelphia, who are being treated for violent injuries in the city's emergency rooms. Unlike other programs, it recognizes and attempts to heal the underlying emotional trauma that results from, and often predates, violent injury.

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Pathways to Peace: Healing Hurt People's small victories in Philly may translate to Cleveland

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Victims of violence that end up in the emergency room can return within two years with more injuries because of retaliation efforts. Philadelphia’s Healing Hurt People is a hospital-based violence intervention program that assists individuals who need medical care and mental health services. The hospital and social work collaboration helps reduce emergency room costs.

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Pathways to Peace: In Philadelphia, a dealer becomes a healer

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Healing Hurt People (HHP), the program that helped save his life, now employs men like Jermaine McCorey - men who used to be a part of a violent life on the streets of Philadelphia - to reach out to boys and young men in the emergency department and help get them through empathy and personalized support. HHP's goal is to help young people recognize the role trauma has played in shaping their lives, to respect and honor their experience and to help them avoid fueling the cycle of violence.

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The Shelter that Gives Wine to Alcoholics

Tina Rosenberg

April 26, 2016 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Alcoholism affects homeless people around the world, a condition that makes them physically and mentally dependent on alcohol to maintain stable functions. The Oaks shelter in Ottawa serves free daily pours to severe alcoholics in order to stabilize their physical and mental states, and to help them control the amount of alcohol they intake. These measures in Ottawa have proven cost effective, humane, and offer specialized aid to those suffering from alcoholism.

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Communities step up for kids' mental health

Katherine Lymn

March 17, 2016 |

The Post Crescent |

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Response Location: United States, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

After shortages of mental health options for kids and untold grief, counties in Wisconsin have responded with new kinds of support for at-risk youth. Wisconsin communities have increased access with reduced wait time, and have used horse therapy, support groups, charity golf that raises awareness, school-group therapy, as well as mobile live chat sessions, among others.

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Actor's Gang: How Tim Robbins has cut reoffending rates

Kate Bissell

March 14, 2016 |

BBC |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

For many offenders, prison can be a tense, divisive, and anger-inducing environment, fueling the negative influences that landed them there in the first place and leading to high recidivism rates. Actor Tim Robbins - who once famously portrayed a prisoner himself - started a program called The Actors Gang to bring theater to inmates as an outlet for emotion and expression, breaking down barriers between former gang members and helping individuals to process their troubles.

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