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How Grassroots Sports Clubs are Tackling Mental Health

Jamie Millar

September 19, 2023 |

Men's Health |

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Response Location: England, London

Minds United Football Club hosts weekly sessions for people to join together and play football, while also addressing their mental health and well-being. Minds United, and similar sports clubs, aim to create a “we-agency,” providing people with a sense of being part of something bigger than themselves that allows them to feel empowered and supported. Sports groups like Minds United foster community among people who may be experiencing loneliness or mental health issues and are in need of a healthy outlet, particularly for men who face significant mental health stigma.

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Urgent Mental Health Care

Zinta Aistars

September 19, 2023 |

Encore Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

The Behavioral Health Urgent Care and Access Center at Integrated Services of Kalamazoo (ISK) works with local law enforcement to assist those experiencing mental health crises and divert them from having to visit emergency rooms or face incarceration. The ISK Center offers same-day treatment for substance abuse as well as mental health care. In the Center’s first month, they received 19,619 calls for service from the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department, 2% of which were flagged as behavioral health calls.

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Ukraine Starts Unpacking Mental Trauma as War Rages On

Nick Allen

September 19, 2023 |

Direct Relief |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ukraine, Kharkiv

The “Together with You” center employs psychologists to provide mental health care to civilians in need, including children. Similar centers have also emerged in the area to address rising mental health concerns, like Kimnara Pidtrymky (Support Room) to provide free psychological services to children, both in person and online. These centers — and others like them — often collaborate all in an effort to reduce mental health stigma in the country.

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How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

Soreath Hok

September 15, 2023 |

KQED |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

The Fresno Center provides immigration services and culturally relevant mental health care to members of the Southeast Asian community. The Center provides therapy in native languages and works to destigmitize mental health in an effort to heal decades of generational trauma.

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A Different Kind of Grief

Larry Beresford

September 14, 2023 |

MindSite News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philly HEALs is a free bereavement support program for people who have lost a loved one to a fatal overdose. The program offers grief counseling and peer support groups for families, teens and children, allowing them a safe space to talk about their experiences and find community among others who can relate.

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The Last Chance for Safe Injection Sites?

Rachel Wisniewski

September 13, 2023 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

There are 10 safe injection sites in Toronto, Canada. At each location, nurses are present to assist in intravenous drug use to prevent disease transmission and overdoses. Visitors can access mental health services, health care, and medication-assisted addiction treatment if they choose to.

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Harm Reduction: Is it saving lives, or helping enable addicts?

Jenna Zibton

September 12, 2023 |

WSLS-TV |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

The Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition (VHRC) uses harm reduction strategies to help those suffering from addiction by providing free supplies like overdose reversal spray, safe smoking kits and clean syringes, as well as connection to education and treatment options when people are ready. Those who access services through a harm reduction program are five times more likely to enter treatment programs. Last year alone, the VHRC distributed more than 20,000 doses of Narcan which they know reversed at least 2,000 overdoses.

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How a county has reached 'functional zero' for chronic homelessness

Matt Pearl

September 07, 2023 |

Scripps News |

Multi-Media |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Bergen, New Jersey

Efforts from the local Housing, Health and Human Services Center helped make Bergen the first — and one of the few — U.S. cities that have reached functional zero for chronic homelessness. Through providing counseling services and helping those in need access care and other resources like employment, the Center has helped several people secure housing, nearly eliminating long-term homelessness for veterans and those struggling with conditions like addiction and other mental illnesses.

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Rural Colorado Communities are Starting to Embrace Co-Responder Programs

Daliah Singer

August 30, 2023 |

Collective Colorado |

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Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

Co-responder programs are spreading across Colorado as a way to respond to behavioral health-related calls with the intention of helping people recover instead of sending them into the justice system. Co-responder teams are made up of crisis intervention-trained police officers and healthcare clinicians, and their responses typically do not end in arrest.

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A digital refuge for male survivors of sexual abuse

Yusuf Adua

August 29, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

Boys Without Borders provides boys who experienced sexual abuse with a support system and educational resources to help them overcome social and mental health issues they may be facing. With the group’s 65 student volunteers, they have helped more than 2,500 boys since launching in 2020.

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