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  • Portland Street Response is working — and in jeopardy

    June 27, 2023 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Portland Street Response sends mental health staff, medics, community health workers, and peer support specialists into crisis situations with the goal of reducing intervention by police. The program has reduced calls to police for non-criminal cases by 3.5 percent and has resulted in only one arrest, compared to 371 arrests made by police for similar calls.

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  • Here's Effort That is Helping Students of Mass Education Overcome Substance Abuse

    June 26, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The MYENJAY Hope and Healing Foundation provides mental health awareness and sensitization efforts regarding substance use among young students. Volunteers from the program visit schools to talk to students, providing interventions and educational resources to help them understand the dangers of drug use. School officials say that since the program began talking with students, they have seen a significant increase in good behavior and a reduction in substance use.

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  • Activist at 14, Burned Out by 26. Today, Emani Davis Teaches That to Change the World, You Must Also Take Care of Yourself

    June 23, 2023 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    The Omowale Project works to support Black and brown activists who have been impacted by incarceration. Through the Projects sessions, advocates, formerly incarcerated people, or people whose parents were incarcerated when they were a child, are taught how to self-advocate, rest and care for themselves emotionally, physically and spiritually.

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  • “Providing Dignity to Humanity,” Free Clinics Expand Mental Health Care

    June 21, 2023 |

    Direct Relief |

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    Response Location: United States, Apple Valley, California

    Free clinics like Symba Center provide primary care and mental health services to the area’s most vulnerable populations. As a result of a $75,000 grant dispersed to 11 free and charitable clinics in the area, clinics like Symba Center have been able to hire additional staff, launch internship programs, provide educational resources, increase collaboration among local organizations and providers and begin offering mental health screening. So far, Symba Center and other area clinics have screened about 22,000 people.

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  • Professor launches first happiness studies master's program

    June 20, 2023 |

    Inside Higher Ed |

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    Response Location: United States, Hackettstown, New Jersey

    Higher education institutions such as Centenary University and Yale University are now offering courses and programs in “happiness studies,” an academic discipline that draws on philosophy, theology, neuroscience, literature, and psychology to examine what helps people thrive. Nearly 1,200 students signed up for Yale’s first happiness course, and a 2021 study found that students who participated in a happiness class reported better mental health.

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  • How Texas is addressing nation's crisis in youth mental health

    June 16, 2023 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium in partnership with Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is working to train healthcare providers on how to identify and begin treating mental health concerns. The training program began in 2022 and about 74 providers participated in its first year.

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  • Making It Easier For Kids To Get Help For Addiction, And Prevent Overdoses

    June 12, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Arlington, Virginia

    Students at Arlington Public Schools are being trained to carry and administer Narcan to help reduce the rising number of opioid overdose deaths, specifically among young people. Programs like this and access to treatment like Suboxone help make it easier for youth to find recovery and prevent drug overdoses.

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  • How a Salina school program helps connect students with mental health services

    June 11, 2023 |

    The Salina Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Salina, Kansas

    The Mental Health Intervention Team at Salina Public Schools makes mental health care more accessible by using grant money to hire school liaisons to assist and provide mental health services to students at school. Within the 2022-2023 academic year alone, 635 students were served and 76% of them improved their school attendance, while 65% saw improvement in their academic performance.

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  • Safe Spaces for Traumatized Children

    June 09, 2023 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Romania

    The Association for Victims of Sexual Crimes is creating child-friendly interview spaces at legal institutions in Romania so that young survivors of sexual assault can be interviewed in a more comfortable setting and avoid further trauma.

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  • Slovenia : where mental illness is a crime

    June 07, 2023 |

    Ereb |

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    Response Location: Slovenia

    Several projects are currently working toward full deinstitutionalization by transferring residents of institutional care facilities to community-based homes. In these community homes, residents will be taught the necessary skills to help them reintegrate into society and live independently despite the challenges they may face, whether that be mental health disorders or developmental disabilities. So far, 171 people have been moved out of institutions to group homes.

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