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  • Tucson crisis center expanding services for faster mental health care

    March 03, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Crisis Response Center provides mental health and crisis care services as an alternative to emergency rooms or jails. The center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers a variety of services focused on recovery for children, teens and adults struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse. The Center is set to expand ahead of the new 988 dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Once expansions are done, the Center will have the capacity to serve between 400 and 600 extra visits a month, on top of the 800 to 1,000 adults who visit the center each month.

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  • Peer support: how ordinary Ohioans are helping others break mental health barriers

    February 04, 2022 |

    Eye On Ohio |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    In Ohio, Thrive Peer Recovery Services connects people experiencing addiction with a peer supporter to help them find and access resources and reduce isolation. Peer supporters are people recovering from addiction who have been sober for at least two years and are trained to support others.

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  • The Answer to our Youth Mental Health Crisis?

    February 03, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    To provide mental health care to students, a pilot program at Girard College meets students where they are at with practices based on integrated behavioral health, adding mental health care into conventional health care settings.

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  • Black students fought to defund school police in LA and hire mental health counselors instead

    February 01, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After a period of backpack searches and police pepper-spraying students, Students Deserve, a youth-led activist group, pushed for the Los Angeles Unified School District to withdraw all funding for school police and divert it to mental health support for Black students. The school board approved a plan to cut one third of the school police budget, roughly around $25 million, and instead use it to fund “221 psychiatric social workers, counselors, “climate coaches,” and restorative justice advisers to schools with the highest number of Black students.”

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  • To Stem Shootings, Poughkeepsie Is Bringing Therapy Directly to City Streets

    January 31, 2022 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Poughkeepsie, New York

    SNUG Street Outreach is a state-funded violence prevention program that brings mental health care out into the community to the places where people spend their time. Trained social workers go out into the street, people’s homes and local businesses where they establish relationships and slowly build up to providing counseling through more casual conversations, even over text messages. A community-based approach allows them to connect with people who are at high-risk of committing gun violence, as well as people who have been victims of gun violence themselves or in their social networks or communities.

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  • Heat dome made British Columbians more anxious. Could prescribing nature help?

    January 26, 2022 |

    Times Colonist |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    A Canadian doctor partnered with the British Columbia Parks Foundation to launch PaRx, A Prescription for Nature. The program helps health care providers prescribe time in nature for patients experiencing depression and anxiety related to climate change.

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  • 'So much hope': Alaskans say peer support can make recovery possible

    November 24, 2021 |

    Alaska Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Alaska has begun certifying peer support specialists with a free 40-hour training. Peer support specialists use their own experiences with mental health conditions or substance use to guide others dealing with similar issues. The state has certified 43 people, including 12 Indigenous traditional peer support specialists. Trainings teach peer supporters about different coping skills and how to help clients deal with a mental health diagnosis and set healthy boundaries. They also cover legal and ethical issues in peer support. The specialists model recovery and offer support without telling people what to do.

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  • How cuddle therapy aims to combat loneliness

    November 16, 2021 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany, Leipzig

    The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated feelings of loneliness, leading many to turn to professional cuddling therapists for human touch. Physical touch can help alleviate feelings of social isolation and has benefits for both physical and mental health.

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  • Thousands of Alaskans are considering suicide. You can learn to help them choose life.

    November 03, 2021 |

    Alaska Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    To address Alaska’s high suicide rates, especially among youth, programs like the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training teaches people how to safely and confidently talk about suicide. The two-day training provides steps people can use to talk with others about suicide, dispel any shame around the topic, and develop a safety plan with them. The main idea is not to solve all of their problems, but to keep the person safe now. The training combines conversations, videos, PowerPoints and roleplaying to teach the steps, based on a global model developed by LivingWorks 35 years ago in Canada.

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  • Hello? This Is Colombia's Antimachismo Hotline.

    October 18, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Bogotá’s city government started the Calm Line to give men a way to connect by telephone with psychologists trained in therapeutic responses to the machismo that leads to gender-based violence. Despite doubts that Colombian men would use the service, the line fields about a dozen calls a day. "Fear, shame and confusion pervade many of the conversations," but also can lead to breakthroughs in understanding the attitudes that oppress women. That understanding is the first step toward cultural change, the Calm Line's supporters believe.

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