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  • Police training is one step in how Waukesha County responds to mental health crises

    May 14, 2025 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

    Waukesha County law enforcement departments are receiving Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training through the National Alliance on Mental Illness to teach them how to recognize and respond to people experiencing mental health crises by safely de-escalating the situations and connecting the people to resources and care, rather than jail and hospital stays. As of 2023, hundreds of officers in at least 19 counties have been CIT trained.

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  • In FCT, People Are Dancing Their Way To Better Mental Health

    May 14, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    A professional dance therapist in Abuja has developed a dance therapy program to address the country’s mental health crisis. He conducts guided movement sessions beginning with emotional check-ins and uses music to help participants express feelings non-verbally. His approach targets individuals with anxiety, stress, depression, and even those with physical conditions like strokes. The program reports reaching over 1,500 people with a claimed 90% success rate.

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  • Why did this town stop eating manatees?

    May 14, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Barra do Mamanguape

    Viva o Peixe-Boi Marinho (Long Live the Sea Manatee) was founded in 2013 in a fishing community on Brazil’s northeastern coast and facilitated the work of conservationists worked alongside fishermen to stop manatees hunting by transforming perceptions and turning former hunters into advocates.

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  • An Emergency Tele-Hailing Initiative Is Helping Lagos Residents Reach Ambulances in Eight Minutes or Less

    May 12, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Eight Medical is a technology-driven emergency medical service that uses real-time communication systems to deliver ambulance services within 10 minutes or less. The service has 45 control center staff, over 400 field personnel, and over 25 ambulances, and operates under a “care now, pay later” scheme, making emergency healthcare more affordable. Since launching, it has received over 15,000 calls and saved about 8,000 lives by providing fast, life-saving care.

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  • The women transforming tea fields into engines of change

    May 08, 2025 |

    FairPlanet |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Misiones

    Local organizations such as Mujeres Rurales Argentinas and the provincial Ministry of Agriculture's Gender Cabinet are empowering rural women through artisanal tea production. By offering training programs structured around women's caregiving schedules, creating spaces for gender-inclusive collaboration, and advocating for policy changes, these groups have helped increase women's leadership roles in tea production, as more than half of artisan producers are now women.

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  • The Screenings Saving Lives in Rural Guatemala

    May 07, 2025 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The Nursing Heart mobile cervical cancer screening clinic uses visual inspection with an acetic acid (VIA) screening method to make cancer screening simpler and more affordable. Since 2011, the clinic has performed more than 4,000 mobile cancer screenings in more than 40 rural Guatemalan communities.

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  • Providing Disabled Students With Skills and Support for Finding Work

    May 06, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Pre-employment transition services are designed to support high school students with documented disabilities by helping them explore potential careers, gain valuable work experience, and develop crucial life skills they’ll need to succeed in the workplace. For one student in Utah, participating in the program helped him secure a job on the path to becoming a mechanic after graduation.

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  • Bolivia's Trans Houses: group shelters that seek to change lives

    May 06, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Bolivia

    Trans Houses are community shelters created by and for trans women in Bolivia that offer comprehensive health services, psychological support, legal assistance, and entrepreneurship opportunities, evolving from basic assistance spaces into collective emancipation platforms that have served over 2,500 people across four cities and are expanding as a replicable model of social transformation. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/1qka

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  • Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help

    May 05, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

    The Co-Location Internship Program between Salisbury University and Maryland’s child psychiatry access program places social work graduate students in pediatric offices to connect youth and their families with behavioral and mental health care for free. Since the program began in 2012, interns have conducted 12,160 family visits, with a 98.3% satisfaction rate.

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  • Mental Health Monday: How ACS keeps students safe with AI

    May 05, 2025 |

    WBIR-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Anderson County, Tennessee

    Gaggle monitors student behaviors on school devices using AI software to identify keywords on the device that could indicate a mental health crisis. The AI alerts a Gaggle employee, who evaluates the situation and elevates it to the school and local law enforcement if necessary.

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