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  • In FCT, People Are Dancing Their Way To Better Mental Health

    May 14, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    A professional dance therapist in Abuja, has developed a dance therapy program to address the country’s mental health crisis. He conducts guided movement sessions beginning with emotional check-ins and uses music to help participants express feelings non-verbally. His approach targets individuals with anxiety, stress, depression, and even those with physical conditions like strokes. The program reports reaching over 1,500 people with a claimed 90% success rate.

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  • Police training is one step in how Waukesha County responds to mental health crises

    May 14, 2025 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

    Waukesha County law enforcement departments are receiving Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training through the National Alliance on Mental Illness to teach them how to recognize and respond to people experiencing mental health crises by safely de-escalating the situations and connecting the people to resources and care, rather than jail and hospital stays. As of 2023, hundreds of officers in at least 19 counties have been CIT trained.

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  • The women transforming tea fields into engines of change

    May 08, 2025 |

    FairPlanet |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Misiones

    Local organizations such as Mujeres Rurales Argentinas and the provincial Ministry of Agriculture's Gender Cabinet are empowering rural women through artisanal tea production. By offering training programs structured around women's caregiving schedules, creating spaces for gender-inclusive collaboration, and advocating for policy changes, these groups have helped increase women's leadership roles in tea production, as more than half of artisan producers are now women.

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  • Bolivia's Trans Houses: group shelters that seek to change lives

    May 06, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Bolivia

    Trans Houses are community shelters created by and for trans women in Bolivia that offer comprehensive health services, psychological support, legal assistance, and entrepreneurship opportunities, evolving from basic assistance spaces into collective emancipation platforms that have served over 2,500 people across four cities and are expanding as a replicable model of social transformation. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/1qka

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  • Providing Disabled Students With Skills and Support for Finding Work

    May 06, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Pre-employment transition services are designed to support high school students with documented disabilities by helping them explore potential careers, gain valuable work experience, and develop crucial life skills they’ll need to succeed in the workplace. For one student in Utah, participating in the program helped him secure a job on the path to becoming a mechanic after graduation.

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  • Mental Health Monday: How ACS keeps students safe with AI

    May 05, 2025 |

    WBIR-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Anderson County, Tennessee

    Gaggle monitors student behaviors on school devices using AI software to identify keywords on the device that could indicate a mental health crisis. The AI alerts a Gaggle employee, who evaluates the situation and elevates it to the school and local law enforcement if necessary.

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  • Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help

    May 05, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

    The Co-Location Internship Program between Salisbury University and Maryland’s child psychiatry access program places social work graduate students in pediatric offices to connect youth and their families with behavioral and mental health care for free. Since the program began in 2012, interns have conducted 12,160 family visits, with a 98.3% satisfaction rate.

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  • In Sri Lanka, 'the Ocean Is For Everyone'

    May 02, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Weligama

    SeaSisters offers free swim and surf lessons to local women and girls, challenging social norms and fear that traditionally keep them from enjoying the ocean. The group has since trained 150 participants, helping them overcome their fears and find a newfound sense of freedom.

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  • The Quiet Engine for Affordable Housing in Red and Blue States

    May 01, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) like BlueHub Loan Fund are stepping up to help create and preserve affordable housing. BlueHub Loan Fund recently financed a project in Nashville that converted two abandoned motels into affordable studio apartments, when larger banks wouldn’t finance the project.

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  • Baby Saver boxes: Lifelines to moms or criminal tools?

    April 30, 2025 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    Baby Savers allow mothers to place their babies for adoption anonymously. The box is monitored, and once a baby is received, social workers are notified to help organize housing and care. Many mothers and advocates see this as life-saving care, though many others are critical of the boxes, and they don’t have support from local government agencies. Despite that, some Savers have been open for over 20 years, taking in thousands of babies over the years.

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