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  • Crisis Survivors in Australia Are Rebuilding Their Wardrobes in Style

    May 05, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Thread Together collects unsold, brand-new clothes from fashion retailers that would otherwise end up in landfills and distributes them to people in need across Australia who are facing clothing insecurity after crises such as floods, homelessness or domestic violence. The organization provides dignity-driven choices through mobile wardrobe vans, online "shopping," and local pop-up stores, enabling individuals to rebuild their lives with confidence and dignity.

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

    May 05, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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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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  • Schools can screen students for behavioral health issues – but many are reluctant to do so

    April 28, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Alexandria, Virginia

    Facing a youth mental health crisis, some schools are using digital screening tools like BIMAS-2 and DESSA to identify students needing behavioral support. Districts in Green Bay and Alexandria report positive results, but widespread adoption meets resistance due to costs, parent concerns, and limited capacity for follow-up support.

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  • ‘A Safe Place to Go': New Alamance crisis hub provides free mental health services that keep people out of jails, ERs

    April 21, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, North Carolina

    The Alamance Behavioral Center aims to be a “one-stop shop” for mental health services, with a walk-in clinic, an urgent care facility, outpatient appointments, an on-site pharmacy, a mobile crisis team, monthly support meetings, and a peer living room where people can connect with peer support specialists without needing an appointment or screening. In January, nearly 1,000 people visited the center, and roughly 90 percent of people who have used the services would have otherwise ended up in the emergency room or jail.

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  • Teaching mental health professionals to think like a farmer

    April 10, 2025 |

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    LandLogic Model trains mental healthcare providers to use farmers’ relationships to their land to identify and treat depression, anxiety, and other emotional issues. Virtual and easily adaptable training models have helped the LandLogic Model support this notoriously hard-to-reach population.

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  • Rapid-response teams aid troubled youths in New Jersey – but funding limits Maryland's similar effort

    April 07, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services help support youth in crisis by connecting them with a mental health professional to avoid unnecessary emergency room visits or police calls. New Jersey’s system has been an inspiration to other states looking to implement similar services, and it served over 32,000 youth in 2023 alone.

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  • Schools face a shortage of social workers – but Howard University has a plan that helps

    March 31, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, District of Columbia

    Project PRESS, which stands for Preparing Responsive and Effective School Social Workers, addresses the social worker shortage in schools by motivating social work students to pursue careers as school social workers providing them with the proper training to do so. It’s a year-long program that focuses on staffing historically Black and low-income areas, and has placed 22 social workers in schools in its first year.

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  • In Massachusetts and elsewhere, youngsters find healing through art

    March 24, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Lynn, Massachusetts

    Raw Art Works is a nonprofit youth development organization that provides art therapy services to 290 youth each week. Studies show art therapy can reduce psychiatric readmission rates for patients, and those who participated in the program say it has been life-changing, teaching them coping skills that supported them into adulthood.

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  • Red flag laws are increasingly being used to protect gun owners in crisis

    March 11, 2025 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Red flag laws allow family members, law enforcement officers, and sometimes even health care workers to file an extreme risk protection order when they’re concerned that someone with access to a gun may harm themselves or others. In Maryland, which is considered a national leader in this type of legislation, a red flag law has helped prevent potential school shootings and the state is now focused on training health care providers to recognize concerning cases and file petitions when necessary.

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  • A mental health clinician and police officer duo now respond to Wauwatosa crisis calls

    February 13, 2025 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

    The Crisis Assessment Response Team (CART) model pairs mental health clinicians with a plain-clothed officer trained in crisis intervention to answer emergency calls together to increase voluntary treatment and decrease involuntary emergency detentions. One team that started working together in Feburary responded to 12 calls in 10 days, with only one resulting in a detention.

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