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

Daniel Adaji

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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Mr. Dad's Father's Club Aims to Build Up Chicago's Youth

Rita Oceguera

June 22, 2023 |

The Trace |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Mr. Dad’s Father’s Club mentors local youth to nurture their social and emotional well-being, making them better equipped to handle the world around them. The Club also provides mentorships for fathers, helping them learn how to be more present in their children’s lives as research indicates the presence of positive role models can make youth more resilient when exposed to violent or negative environments. There are currently over 150 fathers who volunteer for events with the Club.

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To Reduce Infant Mortality, Just Add Stable Housing

MaryLou Costa

June 09, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

Healthy Beginnings At Home provides rental assistance and housing support to pregnant women in unstable housing situations. The program originally started as a research study and proved that providing adequate housing support led to reduced infant mortality. The program helps connect those in need with affordable housing and even covers rent for several months while the moms get adjusted.

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School clinics can improve students' worsening mental health. So why aren't there more?

Patrick Wall

June 08, 2023 |

Chalkbeat National |

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Response Location: United States

School-based health centers provide free services including flu shots, physicals, contraceptive care and reproductive education, talk therapy and behavioral health care to students. Research has found that these school-based clinics boost vaccination rates, reduce hospital visits, lower rates of teen pregnancy and depression and improve grades and attendance levels, all while reducing disparities and making healthcare more accessible.

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Feeling sick? The lawyer will see you now.

Julia Hotz

May 25, 2023 |

The Boston Globe |

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Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

The Child Health-Law Partnership (Child HeLP) is a collaboration between health and legal professionals to treat a patient’s “health-harming legal needs” together. The original medical-legal partnership began 30 years ago in Boston, but has since expanded to other cities to look at all aspects of a patient's health. To administer the best care, patients are asked questions about housing quality and stability, delays or denials of public benefits, unmet educational needs and mental health.

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Protecting children and healing families, one Native auntie at a time

Nancy Marie Spears

May 24, 2023 |

The Imprint |

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Response Location: Luiseño, United States, San Diego, California

My Two Aunties assists Indigenous families to help keep children out of foster care. The group provides parenting support and education, seeks to build relationships between families and their culture and also works to repair intergenerational trauma that can lead to creating an unsafe environment for children. In 2022, the program served 97 families and held 411 parenting classes and interest in the program is continuously growing.

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Whanyinna: A floating school defying odds to educate Makoko's waterfront children

Yakubu Mohammed

May 21, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Makoko, Lagos

Whanyinna is a floating primary school, providing education and opportunity to children in a town where fishing has historically been the top priority. With support from volunteer teachers, more than 300 students have received basic education in subjects like English, math and science, giving local youth a new sense of hope and self-worth.

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'Mommunes': Mothers Are Living Single Together

Debra Kamin

May 12, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

Women around the world are coming together to form “mommunes,” which are communes for single mothers to live under the same roof and share the load of child care, bills and housework. There are even platforms, like CoAbode, which have emerged to make finding other single mothers to live with much easier. CoAbode alone has had about 300,000 single mothers create profiles on the platform to find a home-share match.

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Ryan House solves unmet needs of children with life-limiting sickness

Lauren Kobley Sierra Alvarez Hailey Forbis

May 01, 2023 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

Ryan House is one of three pediatric hospice homes in the United States and provides respite, palliative care and hospice to children with life-limiting illnesses. Staff at Ryan House focus on creating positive experiences and memories, while simultaneously supporting family members and connecting them with other families that share in their experiences. To date, Ryan House has helped more than 1,000 children and their families.

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One school's solution to the mental health crisis: Try everything

Donna St. George

April 28, 2023 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Nelsonville, Ohio

A rural school is taking a “try everything” approach to helping students cope with mental health struggles, which were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. From providing various forms of therapy, to school-based clinic services and mental health education, school staff are leaning into more of a public health approach to mental health care. The services are also seeing support from parents and guardians as nearly all who were asked for permission to treat their child agreed, compared to just 70% before the pandemic.

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