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Hard-Knocks Restaurant Workers Are Embracing Mental Wellness

Hannah Wallace

November 13, 2020 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

An initiative being piloted in the Sacramento hospitality industry aims to decrease the stigma restaurant workers face when talking about mental health concerns with their peers. This peer-to-peer mental health support program encourages workers to disclose how they are feeling to a fellow team member who has been trained in mental health counseling. Restaurant owners have reported that this program has positively changed the culture and 22 percent of those who work at a restaurant where the initiative has been piloted have reported that they have utilized the service.

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Two years in, Maryland leads most other states in use of ‘red flag' gun law

Ben Leonard

October 23, 2020 |

The Baltimore Sun |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Maryland

Two years after Maryland adopted a law allowing for court orders denying gun access to people at high risk of harming themselves or others, police and the public have invoked the law far more often than in most states with similar laws. It is difficult to prove that domestic-violence assaults or suicides have been prevented. But advocates and law enforcement officials say they have seen that effect. Research has documented that extreme-risk protection orders, as such laws are known, can prevent suicides. Credit for the law's use goes to police training and 24/7 court access for emergency hearings.

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Could a Simple Intervention Fight a Suicide Crisis?

Sarah Weiser

October 21, 2020 |

PBS |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

In the 1960s, a psychologist and a team of researchers in San Francisco began sending “caring letters" as a means of suicide intervention, but the practice didn't continue outside of the research study, despite showing positive results. Today though, a clinical psychologist has begun to reintroduce the intervention, via text messages and emails, as a practice to specifically help U.S. service members and veterans.

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Minnesota has figured out a way to help stressed farmers. Can it be replicated?

Marissa Plescia

October 07, 2020 |

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Minnesota

The Rural Mental Health Outreach program in Minnesota is helping farmers in the region to tackle mental health challenges that are related to the stresses involved in their profession. Other states have taken notice of the program's success and are now piloting similar programs as a means of addressing a rising concern of suicide within the farming industry.

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Utah Is Trying To Prevent Gun Suicides. Are Other States Paying Attention?

Heath Druzin

September 29, 2020 |

Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Utah

Concerned about the high numbers of suicides in the state, Utah's local government introduced a three-pronged approach to preventing further suicides that hinged on targeting gun owners and Second Amendment activists. Although there has been some push back along the way, suicide rates have decreased since the state shifted their approach from awareness-only to one that is "data-driven and aims to involve community members from gun store owners to high school sports coaches."

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How Do You Get Gun Owners To Give Up Their Guns During A Crisis? Ask.

Leigh Paterson

September 29, 2020 |

KUNC |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Craig, Colorado

"Voluntary storage" of guns is a growing movement that seeks to reduce gun suicides while avoiding political clashes with gun-rights advocates by instead promoting safety without government coercion. The Means Matter Campaign, Gun Shop Project, and a number of other private programs take what has long happened informally – friends disarming friends to prevent tragedy during a crisis – and promotes such practices as a public-health response. While research quantifying its effects is scant, anecdotes abound of people at risk being talked into surrendering their guns temporarily.

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Suicide hotline offers young people hope and a chance to talk with peers

Molly Bohannon

August 31, 2020 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

In Arizona, a teen-run suicide prevention hotline connects teens who need someone to talk to with a peer operator who works to listen to and calm the caller. The volunteer teenage operators don't offer medical advice but do undergo clinician-supervised training that includes active listening, collaborative problem solving and the ability to connect with callers.

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Loss—and Hope—After a Cluster of Student Suicides

Nora Fleming

March 06, 2020 |

Edutopia |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Clovis, California

To decrease the stigma of talking about mental health, a high school in California's Central Valley began "inviting students to attend formerly adults-only meetings and including them in planning groups to expand mental health resources on campuses." In addition, students created their own club, which has grown to 40 participants, and the school has also added a peer counseling class.

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The Old Asylum Is Gone: Today A Mental Health System Serves All

Rob Waters

February 03, 2020 |

Health Affairs |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Italy, Trieste

In Trieste, Italy, accessing mental health care resources is made easier by an approach that allows for people to seek assistance without the fear of being punished. In most cases throughout the region, mental health centers act as first responders and treatment facilities are open-door with very few instances of coercive treatment initiated. While individuals report that this model of care is successful, another element of success includes the employment rate of patients.

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Native Americans foster healing from domestic violence through community, tradition

Anikka Abbott

December 23, 2019 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

Multi-Media |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

To help address domestic violence and intervene in crises such as suicide and addiction within Native American communities, a decades-old culture-based program offers workshops that "foster healing through embracing community and tradition." These Gathering of Native Americans programs, which are designed specifically with the audience in mind, focus on community members helping community members as a form of counseling.

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