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  • LGBTQ students find support within community

    October 10, 2018 |

    Durango Herald |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

    Connecting LGTBQ+ teens with peers and adults for support can help reduce depression and the risk of suicide. Organizations like the Four Corners Rainbow Youth Center in Durango, Colorado, and the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center at Fort Lewis College provide safe spaces where youth feel welcome and supported by a network of peers and adults. The centers also act as social spaces where youth, parents, and their communities can come together.

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  • The new campus crisis: How anxiety is crippling college kids across the country

    October 03, 2018 |

    Deseret News |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    As colleges around the country struggle to meet rising mental health needs among the student population, the University of Michigan created a network of small support groups that helps students connect with and provide support to one another. Students attend these casual support groups of 6-10 people and share their anxieties, struggles, and worries from their academic and personal lives.

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  • How Adult Survivors Of Childhood Trauma Forge Their Own Paths To Recovery

    September 17, 2018 |

    Texas Standard |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    In Texas, mental health care advocates are making strides to reduce stigma and connect people suffering from trauma with paths to healing. In public schools, teachers receive training on trauma, and local hospitals are starting programs geared towards healing people who have suffered trauma or related PTSD. By adding mental health education into existing systems, they are working to lessen stigma and lift up the community.

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  • How Suicide Trainings, Community Connections Could Patch Holes In Amador's Mental Health Safety Net

    September 13, 2018 |

    CapRadio |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Amador County, California

    Community members of Amador County are implementing suicide trainings and community events to help intervene in crises and destigmatize talking about mental health. Using "leftover dollars from the state’s Proposition 63 millionaire tax," these efforts have resulted in community conversations and events such as suicide walks.

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  • Veterans Courts Give Soldiers a Way Back

    September 02, 2018 |

    70 Million |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    When military veterans get charged with crimes, more than 350 courts nationwide exist to try to keep them out of jail, with rehabilitation as the chief goal. Boston Veterans Court provides people with social workers, outreach specialists, access to therapy, and help in going to school, finding a job, and dealing with life's stresses. Many people in this system come home from war struggling with anger, trauma, and substance abuse problems. Some studies have quantified veterans courts' success rates for helping people overcoming mental illness and staying out of criminal trouble.

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  • Strength in Numbers

    September 01, 2018 |

    Stanford Social Innovation Review |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Group therapy has helped women experiencing depression in poor communities in Kampala. Since 2014, more than 25,110 women have met in small groups with trained peer facilitators, and after completing the program about 86 percent say they are no longer depressed.

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  • Project Healing Waters helps disabled veterans recover through fly fishing

    August 28, 2018 |

    Las Cruces Sun-News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Healing Waters is a fly fishing therapy group for disabled veterans. Through mutual support and outdoor activity, the group allows sufferers of PTSD or physical disability to commune with nature and find peace.

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  • Peers guide addicts toward recovery

    August 20, 2018 |

    The Vindicator |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Youngstown, Ohio

    Those that struggle with addiction can have a difficult time feeling like they're being understood by those they talk to about their problems. In Ohio, however, federal funding has gone towards a program that uses peer to peer support in order to connect addicts with recovered addicts, which so far, has shown promising results.

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  • EMS workers are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. Here's how they cope.

    August 14, 2018 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Drug users aren’t the only ones affected by the opioid crisis—first responders feel the effects, too. Critical Incident Stress Management is a program that gives them tools for coping with the emotional toll of working on the front lines of the crisis. The program offers training and peer groups so overworked responders can bear up under job stress.

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  • From apps to avatars, new tools for taking control of your mental health

    July 02, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    Millions of Americans suffer form mental health problems every year, and accessing care can be daunting, difficult, and expensive. A Slack channel, called 18percent, allows online users to anonymously access a message board to discuss their mental health problems and draw on support from people suffering from similar issues. This is part of a new trend in mental health care that utilizes technology to break down the barriers that many face when seeking help.

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