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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 |

    Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    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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  • 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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  • How Baltimore Convinced Officers to Seek Help for Alcoholism and Depression

    January 24, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In an effort to promote health and wellness and reduce instances of officer misconduct, the Baltimore Police Departmenr launched a program in 2018 that connects officers with counseling, substance use treatment and other mental and physical health supports. Over the course of the program, more than 250 officers have signed themselves into a voluntary, confidential alcohol addiction program and been able to keep working.

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  • Inside the Bridge's 'fight to stay alive'

    January 16, 2025 |

    The Stanford Daily |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    The Bridge Peer Counseling Center provides 24/7, free, anonymous counseling to students, by students. The student counselors are trained in crisis response and volunteer over 30 hours each week to keep the center running, ensuring mental health support is always accessible on campus.

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  • The Value of Mental Health

    November 28, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    The Zruc Mental Health Team for Children and Young People provides free mental health care to youth in schools in the Czech Republic's Kutna Hora district. These teams of traveling psychologists are making mental health care more accessible by meeting students where they are and are helping to reverse the standard method of labeling children with mental health issues as “problematic,” instead ensuring they get the care they need.

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  • A Tool to Tackle Climate Emotions

    November 25, 2024 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    An educational tool called the climate emotions wheel shows a variety of emotions that align with a survey to help guide users through their climate-related feelings. It’s used in schools as a way to address youth mental health concerns amid climate-related disasters and other impacts.

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  • Forest therapy for wildfire survivors

    November 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Social workers, psychotherapists, and community leaders in the California towns impacted by the Camp Fire were trained as forest therapy guides to help residents emotionally recover from the disaster and reconnect with nature. They offer free guided walks full of interactive activities and conversations.

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