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  • What a Sandy Hook mental health center can teach Texas about helping kids after a tragedy

    The Uvalde Together Resilience Center run by The Ecumenical Center provides mental health services to students, parents, and teachers impacted by school shootings and living with trauma. The center provides mental health resources, and professional help, as well as a sense of community for those affected to heal.

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  • She Writes Woman: Giving Mental Health a Voice in Nigeria

    She Writes Woman, provides safe spaces for those in need to receive mental healthcare services. As of this year, She Writes Woman receives about 200 calls on its toll-free helpline each day, serving a community of about 45,000 people.

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  • How Black female support groups are dealing with the end of Roe

    Support groups for Black women are making space to talk, laugh, breathe, dance, and lift one another up in the wake of the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade. Black women will be disproportionately impacted due to systemic factors such as a lack of access to contraceptives and have since seen instances of waiting lists for the support groups double.

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  • Paul Quinn's focus on mental health helps college students through trauma, stay on track

    Paul Quinn, a historically Black college, developed an exhaustive program that supports students’ mental health as a way to encourage academic success. All incoming students have a mental health assessment with a counselor and have free access to therapy and support groups throughout their education. Professors, coaches, and academic advisers also offer support or can direct students to campus resources.

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  • Filling the Gaps

    The Synergy Healthcare Center is a mental health services clinic that focuses on issues facing the Black community to help fill gaps in service and address mental health stigma. Synergy focuses on cultural awareness to ensure those seeking help feel safe and comfortable with the mental health care services they’re receiving. The Center also hosts various themed gatherings to help create a safe place for those in need.

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  • Texas invested millions in mental health after 2018 shooting — Here's how it's working

    The state-funded Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium provides mental health care and resources to more than 300 school districts, with one goal of preventing mass shootings. Programs like in-school behavioral telehealth appointments make care more accessible to children who are identified as in-need

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  • Should Kalamazoo County's first-responders include mental-health clinicians?

    Crisis Intervention Training classes provide law enforcement with the necessary knowledge to effectively help those experiencing a mental health crisis. Currently, planning is underway to enhance this training to help strengthen the relationship between law enforcement and the mental health system by better collecting data, screening calls and opening a downtown urgent care center.

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  • Kalamazoo-area police want closer ties with mental-health experts. Now they try to make that happen.

    County’s police chiefs are joining forces with local mental-health experts to devise a countywide collaboration to strengthen the relationship between law enforcement and the mental-health system by creating a four-pillar approach to crisis intervention training. Each pillar is designed to handle a different issue and build resources within the community to help those in need.

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  • When the pandemic forced mental health care to go virtual, it revealed an antidote to stigmas in Latino communities

    After switching to telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic, Brother Bill's Helping Hand saw a significant increase in people seeking the clinic's mental health services. The organization has continued its telehealth visits and also offers a free grocery store, health care resources, and educational programming geared toward the Latino community.

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  • A study gave cash and therapy to men at risk of criminal behavior. 10 years later, the results are in.

    Crime and violence went down by 50 percent in a group of at-risk Liberian men when they were offered therapy as well as cash - even up to a decade later. The long-lasting impact of the study has inspired a similar program in Chicago where youth are given access to therapy as well as job training. Criminal arrests have fallen by half in the group of men who took part in the Chicago initiative.

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