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  • Looking to Improve Students' Mental Health? Ask What They Need

    January 18, 2019 |

    The Chronicle of Higher Education |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Colleges campuses are increasingly consulting students about the mental health services they want to see and expanding initiatives beyond the counseling center to all aspects of campus life. At Jefferson Community College in New York this means food pantries and nonprofit transportation services.

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  • MPS crisis response team helps students process grief, confront trauma

    January 04, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    In Milwaukee Public schools, when a student or teacher passes away, a crisis response team, made up of school psychologists, social workers, and counselors, steps in to offer grief counseling and mental health care support. In operation for over 20 years, the team aims to make students feel secure in their environment once again, provide individual support to students for which this event might be triggering, and train teachers to recognize signs of trauma in their students.

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  • School makes counseling cool for kids with a pop-up wellness center

    January 02, 2019 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    In recent years, School 145 in New York City has significantly bolstered its mental health counseling services, with the help of the nonprofit Counseling in Schools, and test scores are starting to improve. "I have 52 students whose parents have given me letters saying 'in case I get deported, this is where my child is going.'" the principal explained, emphasizing the importance of providing mental health care resources at school. "And then we have to talk about college and career readiness."

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  • Helping Women Exit Incarceration Successfully

    December 27, 2018 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Crossroads for Women, a New Mexico nonprofit, is helping formerly incarcerated women find community, support, and recovery. Using trauma-informed care practices, the program offers a comprehensive list of services like housing, mental health treatment, employment counseling, and substance abuse treatment. Underlying all services is the understanding that no individual is trauma free and that community and relationships are crucial to sustainable recovery.

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  • How VA-trained psychiatrists are bringing their skills to civilians with PTSD

    November 28, 2018 |

    Marketplace |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    PTSD impacts more people than just veterans, but not many services are set up for civilians to seek treatment. To widen the scope of treatment, some academic institutions and psychologists that have been trained to work with veterans are taking the lessons they've been taught and applying them to treating those with complex PTSD.

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  • With growing mental-health needs, colleges look to professors for suicide prevention

    November 27, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Faculty and staff at Philadelphia’s LaSalle University are being given crisis training to recognize, engage, and refer students with suicide ideation. With the number of students seeking mental health care increasing, this program expands the safety net of people students can reach out to in a time of need.

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  • Hospitals Are Trying To Do What Politicians Haven't: Stop Gun Violence

    November 23, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Cheverly, Maryland

    The Capital Region Violence Intervention Program uses the "golden moment" when gunshot victims are receptive to guidance, in the initial hours of their hospitalization, to steer them away from retaliatory violence and enroll them in mental health and job counseling. About 30 hospital-based violence intervention programs around the country provide such services, which have been shown to reduce violent injury and death, though such studies have been small in scale. The capital region program's first 100 patients avoided further harm, a far better than average result.

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  • Health Experts Hope Dr. Rich Mahogany And ‘Man Therapy' Can Reduce Suicide In Men

    November 21, 2018 |

    KUNC |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    With suicide as a leading cause of death among adult men in Colorado, normalizing mental health care serves as an important step toward lowering suicide rates. Colorado’s Department of Public Health hopes that with a little bit of humor, awareness of crucial mental health resources can reach the populations most in need. The portrayal of a fictional, sometimes crass doctor in the Man Therapy videos has been licensed by several US states and internationally, as well.

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  • ‘Like therapy, but better': The holiday dinner party that makes space for grief

    November 21, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    To better grieve the death of a parent, two friends in Los Angeles created an organization known as The Dinner Party which aims to bring people of similar experiences together to better cope with loss. Although the hosts of the events are professional therapists, they undergo training in order to better offer support and resources for those in attendance.

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  • Barbershop Confessions

    November 20, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The Confess Project trains barbershop workers in black communities about creating pathways to talk about mental health and recognize and respond to signs of a mental health crisis. This training expands mental health services—especially culturally competent services—and parlays what is often a close, trusting relationship to raise awareness and provide an effective intervention.

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