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  • How Treating Teens' Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago

    The violence prevention program Choose to Change pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring for high-risk Chicago teens, resulting in participants being 31% less likely to be arrested than their peers who did not participate in the program.

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  • To improve youth mental health, these programs start by educating parents

    Parent Encouragement Programs teach parents new ways to connect and communicate with their children, helping them become more understanding and less authoritarian. Research shows that after seven weeks of classes, parents report increased satisfaction in their relationships with their children.

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  • A PTSD Therapy 'Seemed Too Good to Be True'

    Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) is an unconventional therapy for treating PTSD without the intense emotional pain of traditional approaches like reliving traumatic memories. Despite barriers like minimal research and skepticism, early evidence suggests patients may be more likely to complete RTM therapy and eliminate their PTSD symptoms quicker than with traditional forms of therapy.

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  • This house overwhelms me and no one is grateful

    Bogotá's Manzanas del Cuidado (Caregiving Blocks) provides free services like education, counseling, and skills training at 25 neighborhood locations to reduce the burden on women caregivers, successfully empowering participants to complete high school, gain new skills, and find employment opportunities. It's become a pioneering model in Latin America for recognizing unrenumerating labors. Read this article in Spanish here: https://solu.news/zfxr

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  • La casa agobia y nadie agradece

    El Sistema Distrital de Cuidado de Bogotá, implementado desde 2020 con sus 25 Manzanas del Cuidado como estrategia central, es un modelo pionero en América Latina por reconocer el trabajo no remunerado. Ha logrado transformar la vida de mujeres cuidadoras ofreciéndoles espacios gratuitos de formación, apoyo psicojurídico y desarrollo personal que les han permitido retomar estudios, fortalecer su autoestima y acceder a redes de apoyo. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/wiva

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

    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

    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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  • This Queer Couple Supports LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Farmers' Mental Health

    The South Side Queer Farmer Convergence provides culturally-affirming community gatherings that effectively reduce isolation, promote emotional healing, and foster mental wellbeing for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC farmers facing significant social stressors and discrimination.

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  • Healing Arts

    Social prescribing connects people with nonclinical activities, like art classes, nature walks and book clubs, to help them manage their mental health systems. Groups like Art Pharmacy, local universities and even the Cleveland Clinic, are prescribing these activities as a way to treat underlying issues like isolation and social stress.

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

    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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