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  • Santa Fe clinic steps to the plate in opioid war

    August 27, 2017 |

    The Santa Fe New Mexican |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    New Mexico has been fighting the rise of the opioid epidemic for decades, so when medical professionals noticed an increase in opioid-dependent mothers giving birth, one doctor started a new program to address this. This program uses both medication-assisted substance abuse treatment and behavioral therapy, and has resulted in a decrease in overdose deaths.

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  • Teaching Teachers About Trauma Helps Kids Learn

    August 24, 2017 |

    West Virginia Public Broadcasting |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    A new initiative in West Virginia is training elementary school teachers to identify signs of intergenerational trauma in their students and adjust their teaching methods accordingly.

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  • What happens when a regular high school decides no student is a lost cause?

    August 11, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Sequim, Washington

    Although trauma-informed approaches to education have become increasingly popular in alternative schools, they are still rare in traditional "comprehensive" schools. Sequim Senior High School in Washington State is at the forefront of this movement. In addition to its standard instruction, Sequim offers a different classroom experience for a small group of students who have endured significant trauma and are struggling in normal classrooms as a result. The trauma-informed school within a school has so far seen fewer suspensions and better attendance, but, still in its early years, faces myriad challenges.

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  • How a New York Police Official Targets Thoughts to Fight Crime

    August 09, 2017 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, Suffolk County, New York

    A former prosecutor now works directly with offenders as a deputy police chief in a movement called Council of Thought And Action (COTA), often going directly to them in the community and bringing them together in support groups. The idea is that crime is a result of poor problem solving, and COTA is designed to restructure ways of thinking and behaving, using cognitive therapy tools to address past emotional baggage, and the power of social networks to provide a positive replacement to the destructive networks they had in the past.

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  • Finding Some Peace After War

    August 02, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Warrior Expeditions is one of several organizations helping veterans embark on outdoor experiences, such as hiking the Continental Divide. Participants find that these trips, sometimes months-long, offer the time and space to begin processing their experiences of combat and loss.

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  • Pennsylvania training mentally ill inmates to help others on the cellblock

    August 01, 2017 |

    WHYY |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Peer to peer programs have existed since the 1980s. These programs pair up a person with mental health illness, with one another. The concept, is relatively new in the prison systems, and is gaining traction in states like Pennsylvania.

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  • Mexico's Cartoon Therapists

    July 25, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico

    In order to address dynamics that may keep a child from talking about traumatic experiences, a Mexico City-based child psychologist developed Antennas. Antennas is an animated character controlled and voiced by the psychologist who, as an alien, can ask basic questions about people and relationships. This approach has been effective for psychologists and use of Antennas has spread to the judicial system as well.

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  • How Iceland became the most stone-cold sober country for teens in Europe

    July 20, 2017 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: Iceland, Reykjavík

    The Youth Iceland program has lowered rates of teenage alcohol abuse not by counseling teens to say no to drinking, but by providing opportunities to establish a healthy life and relationships. The program entailed investing money in school programs, providing money to families to participate in these programs, and pushing for parents to spend more time with the children.

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  • A Rust Belt City's School Turnaround

    July 18, 2017 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    In a Buffalo school district where many students from low-income families struggled with trauma, attendance, and the effects of poverty, a nonprofit initiative called Say Yes to Education is implementing drastic change. The program increases graduation rates for minority students, grants scholarships and admissions guidance to colleges, provides medical and mental health care to under-served students, brings in mentors and after-school programs, and even assists students parents with job-readiness workshops and housing assistance.

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  • In Texas, People With Mental Illness Find Work Helping Peers

    July 13, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The concept of peer-to-peer support has been leveraged by organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous for decades; but for perhaps the first time, health care systems are leveraging this method to help treat patients with mental illness. Non-profit Via Hope provides training and certification for peer support specialists who go to work in health clinics and hospitals to provide support, counseling, and resources for others suffering from a wide range of mental illnesses. They are already proving as, if not more effective than traditional case managers at helping keep patients out of psychiatric hospitals.

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