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  • Connecting for Impact: An African Women Movement Changes HIV Trend Through Mentorship

    May 23, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Zambia, Lusaka

    Mothers to Mothers trains and employs local women living with HIV/AIDs to become community health workers, providing care and services to under-resourced clinics and direct to communities through door-to-door initiatives. Since forming in 2001, Mothers to Mothers has connected more than 15 million people with access to health services and has trained 1,200 women to become community health workers.

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  • Talking the Talk: How one therapy practice is bridging cultural and language barriers

    May 16, 2024 |

    The Columbia Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Latinx Talk Therapy offers bilingual mental health services in English and Spanish from Latinx therapists. These services help bridge the gap in accessing mental health care in Latinx communities. The Center opened in 2020 with a team of four therapists but has since grown to 50, as the services they offer have begun to gain more traction within the community.

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  • Two Health Care Workers Have Saved Countless Lives in Appalachia. Their New Business Goes the Extra Mile.

    May 07, 2024 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    The Health Wagon provides healthcare to remote, rural communities where accessibility and stigma have historically prevented residents from accessing care. The Wagon operates through multiple stationary clinics and about a dozen mobile sites across six counties. The Health Wagon takes a more individualized approach to healthcare, connecting with patients on a personal level, helping dismantle decades of barriers that prevent rural locals from accessing and understanding the care they need.

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  • The therapy school for children raised in Delhi's red light district

    April 15, 2024 |

    Positive.News |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    Project Phoenix offers a one-year preventative mental health initiative for teens in underserved communities. It provides trauma-informed therapy and social-emotional learning through art, theater, writing and music, as well as education on human and sexual rights. The program aims to equip vulnerable youth with skills to combat mental health challenges and has impacted over 76,500 individuals so far

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  • Telehealth is making abortion way more accessible for disabled people, but it's not perfect

    March 18, 2024 |

    Reckon |

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    Response Location: United States

    Telehealth appointments make it easier for people with disabilities to access healthcare, including medication abortions, by allowing those in need to access care from the comfort of their own homes. For many people, this eliminates several access barriers they often face when seeking care. Post-Roe, medication abortion via telehealth visits accounts for 16% of all reported abortions.

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  • 'Wraparound Support' Meets Black and Hispanic Girls' Overlooked Mental Health Needs

    March 08, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Waukegan, Illinois

    Working on Womanhood (WOW) hosts weekly, school-based meetings for Black and Hispanic girls in grades six to 12 to connect, work through personal problems and build a sense of self-awareness and confidence, as this population is largely underserved by mental health programs. Research shows that WOW participants experience decreased anxiety and depression and WOW counselors also report seeing less anger and fights among the participating students.

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  • The fight to keep Black moms and babies alive

    February 28, 2024 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Black parents are at greater risk of experiencing serious complications during pregnancy and childbirth, which is why preserving Black birth care, like doulas, is so important to preventing unnecessary deaths and medical interventions. The doula community is growing and there’s currently a push among local doulas and providers to grow the network of doulas of color to increase the accessibility of relevant and representative birth care.

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  • More states offer health care coverage for certain immigrants, noncitizens

    January 26, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    The OmniSalud program provides zero-premium health care coverage to low-income immigrants without documentation, helping make health care more accessible for those who normally struggle to get it due to their legal status. This year, the program expanded to 11,000 slots and hopes to continue growing.

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  • Mobile crisis unit looks to the future after debut year

    January 19, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    Project LIGHT (Lessen the Incidence of Grief, Harm and Trauma) is a co-responder team that combines paramedics and licensed social workers to respond to mental health crises. The project responded to 940 in its first year, most of which ended with the patient being transported to a mental health care provider or receiving treatment on-scene rather than being arrested.

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  • As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better

    January 10, 2024 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: Australia

    With its focus on research and the launch of the Safer Baby Bundle, Australia is ahead of the curve in preventing stillbirths. The Safer Baby Bundle includes evidence-based practices to prevent stillbirths including helping pregnant patients quit smoking, regularly monitoring fetal growth and movement and encouraging safe pregnancy practices like sleeping on one’s side. Since the launch of these strategies, the country sees about six stillbirths a day, whereas the U.S. experiences about 60 stillbirths each day.

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