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  • How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

    September 15, 2023 |

    KQED |

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    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

    September 14, 2023 |

    MindSite News |

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    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?

    September 13, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    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?

    September 12, 2023 |

    WSLS-TV |

    Multi-Media |

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    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

    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

    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

    August 29, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    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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  • The non-profit pushing back drug abuse in Nigeria

    August 25, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The David Folaranmi Foundation works to fight drug abuse and help those suffering from addiction through rehabilitation and education efforts. The Foundation connects patients to local rehabilitation centers for free treatment and therapy services. The Foundation also works to empower individuals to gain practical skills to help them reenter society and the workforce. Since forming in 2017, the Foundation has successfully funded the rehabilitation of 66 individuals.

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  • How Harm Reduction is Saving Lives

    August 24, 2023 |

    Solutionaries |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    The Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition provides services and supplies to help drug users stay safe and stay alive with the goal of eventually getting into treatment, offering syringe exchange services, testing and treatment connection for Hepatitis C and HIV, case management support, and more. The coalition safely disposes of 100,000 syringes per year, and research shows that people who access services through a harm reduction program are five times more likely to seek treatment for substance abuse.

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  • TatoHub: Community spaces across Ukraine help families cope with the psychological challenges of war

    August 23, 2023 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    Rubryka tells the story of a fishing club that turned into a non-governmental organization that helped Ukrainians evacuate from the Donetsk region, collects humanitarian aid, and now provides psychological and other support to displaced people in various communities of Ukraine.

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