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  • Beyond the Stigma: Making a difference in the workplace

    A New Hampshire business is an exemplar of a new state push to create “recovery friendly” businesses. For the Chameleon Group, this takes the form of managers attending drug court hearing o support workers, holding 12-step group meetings at the office, and hiring at recovery job fairs.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: New generation rises to help in opioid fight

    A growing number of people are entering the human services field in New Hampshire in response to the opioid crisis. Local colleges are responding to the demand by offering more courses and opportunities for budding social workers.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Team goes door to door to help child victims of extreme trauma

    In New Hampshire, Manchester police have teamed with community organizations to proactively offer services to children who have experienced or witnessed trauma, before those very children grow up to repeat the cycle. The Advert Childhood Experiences Response Team (ACERT) "has contacted more than 1,000 children in about 700 families" since its inception in late 2015.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Doubling the help for kids

    FAST Forward is a community health program for children that is aimed at keeping them at home rather than in hospitals. The program helps families build community support around their children.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Clubhouse model thriving in 32 countries

    Clubhouse International is a group fighting the stigma that surrounds mental health issues. By providing a space where people suffering from mental illness can gather and participate, they build strong community engagement which helps members to find jobs and housing. Most clubhouses rely on recurring state funding.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Optimism on NH's opioid front line

    In New Hampshire, many actors are participating to coordinate solutions to the opioid crisis. Among the most effective solutions are training physicians to help patients manage pain without opiates, helping patients wean off opiates, and maintaining rapid response teams to respond to potential overdoses.

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  • New Hampshire syringe programs: 'Meeting people where they're at'

    Hand Up Health Services is a syringe services program that provides clean needles to addicts, also known as “needles exchange” programs. The program is only one of two in New Hampshire. While there's a lot of stigma behind these types of programs, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions shows that “ people who inject drugs are five times more likely to enter treatment if they connect with an SSP.”

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Residential recovery centers offer refuge to NH moms struggling with addiction

    Mothers who struggle with addiction often fear losing their children if they seek help. In New Hampshire, the Moms in Recovery program is seeing success by offering new mothers access to residential recovery centers. In these centers, mothers support each other and are incentivized to discontinue drug use.

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