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  • Forth Hope: La esperanza navega por el río Ucayali

    En el fondo de la Amazonía peruana donde no llegan fácilmente los médicos, el barco Forth Hope lleva curación, alivio, vacunas y prevención. Desde el año 2002, ha visitado y ayudado a millones de personas con apoyo médico, odontólogo, psicólogo y obstétrica.

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  • Universités et entreprises tendent la main aux jeunes Asperger

    75 % à 95 % des personnesdes personnes auxquelles on a diagnostiqué une forme d’autisme sont sans emploi, selon les estimations. Depuis 2018, le dispositif Université Aspies-Friendly travaille à leur inclusion dans l’enseignement supérieur A ce jour, vingt-cinq universités participent au projet pour quelque 500 étudiants autistes accompagnés.

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  • Black Men Heal delivers mental health to Black men in Philly and beyond

    Black Men Heal provides access to mental health treatment and resources to men of color. The organization offers eight free therapy sessions to Black men who fill out an application to qualify for the program and are then matched with therapists of color. Black Men Heal has provided 1,295 free sessions so far and has graduated its 10th cohort of patients, 75% of whom are staying in therapy.

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  • Success coaches help workers with problems outside the workplace. That helps their employers, too

    Businesses are partnering with the Employer Resource Network, which provides “success coaches” for employees. These coaches serve as in-house social workers, helping employees navigate issues like food insecurity, child care, and emergencies — all of which often contribute to employee retention issues. The coaches were introduced as a way to address retention and help support employees so they don’t feel as if they have no other choice but to leave their jobs when trouble arises. The Network originally started in Michigan, but has since expanded to 11 states and serves 200 employers.

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  • Young Nigerians are tackling the stigma of mental health

    Having seen first-hand the impact of colonial-era laws and lack of access to professional help on her struggle with depression, Elizabeth Ita founded the non-profit Stilt NG. Since 2019, it has trained 25 young volunteers familiar with mental health struggles themselves to create awareness on mental illness, reduce stigma, and encourage help-seeking behavior for other youth in the community.

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  • A West Virginia town uses Iceland's model to keep kids away from drugs and alcohol

    To address a major teen drinking problem, Iceland began pushing teens toward joining clubs and organizations and participating in outdoor recreation like fishing and skating. As a result, the percentage of teens who got drunk at least once a month dropped from 45% to just 5% and similar practices are picking up speed in other areas, like West Virginia.

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  • Standup comedy course for men at risk of suicide wins NHS funding

    Comedy on Referral is a course that teaches trauma survivors how to do standup comedy, giving them a new way to process their trauma and feel empowered.

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  • How a majority BIPOC worker co-op is disrupting the field of therapy

    The Alliance Psychological Services of New York is a worker cooperative- meaning it is owned by those working there and everyone is a part of the decision-making process. This model allows workers to choose more sustainable practices and workloads. They also have the freedom to better care for their clients with practices like sliding-scale-based payment.

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  • ‘I had to be broken to be fixed': the courses trying to change abusive men

    LifeLine is an intensive, multi-week course that works with perpetrators of abuse to encourage behavior change in them. It is run by My CWA, one among a growing number of non-profits that have been accredited by Respect, UK's lead organization for programs for perpetrators, to run similar courses that follow carefully drafted principles. The aim has been to support survivors of domestic abuse more holistically by addressing the root cause, and now with compelling evidence to show that the approach works, the Home Office has also come aboard.

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  • EU officials being trained to meditate to help fight climate crisis

    A group of European Union officials that deal with green policy are participating in meditation courses as a way to help with negotiations and create compassion and empathy when dealing with climate change issues. Early results from the first participants suggest that the training has helped them become more mindful and motivated to tackle the problems ahead and helped them cope with the sense of climate grief.

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