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  • 'It's OK to ask for assistance': How UNC's elite athletes use mental health as an edge

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    The Carolina Athletics Mental Health and Performance Psychology Program works with university sport teams in weekly sports psychology meetings, where student athletes can discuss their mental health concerns and learn ways to overcome them. The Program currently has three licensed mental health clinicians on staff and hopes to hire more.

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  • The Farm at Penny Lane grows hope through therapy programs

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chatham, North Carolina

    The Farm at Penny Lane offers a safe space for people with mental illnesses to participate in activities such as gardening, art therapy and animal-assisted therapy to supplement traditional mental health treatment. Follow-up evaluations with participants indicate they feel more peaceful and inspired after participating on the farm and building meaningful relationships with others who share their experiences.

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  • 'It's about the process': Art therapy provides creative outlet as mental health care

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Art therapy is a growing practice that helps people access and assess their emotions through visual and performing arts like painting and dancing.

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  • What If Finding Affordable Housing Worked More Like Matchmaking?

    March 18, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Brilliant Corners helps vulnerable, low-income individuals secure housing by working with other local organizations, including the Flexible Housing Subsidy Poll, which helps match people with suitable housing options. Brilliant Corners has helped about 13,000 people get into permanent housing and can cover over $10 million in rent subsidies every month.

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  • A California Program to Get Produce to Low-Income Families Is a Hit. Now It Is Running Out of Money.

    March 18, 2024 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program rewards healthy shopping choices with a dollar-for-dollar instant rebate at participating grocery stores. 74,000 people in 44 of California’s 58 counties benefit from the program.

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  • Telehealth is making abortion way more accessible for disabled people, but it's not perfect

    March 18, 2024 |

    Reckon |

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    Response Location: United States

    Telehealth appointments make it easier for people with disabilities to access healthcare, including medication abortions, by allowing those in need to access care from the comfort of their own homes. For many people, this eliminates several access barriers they often face when seeking care. Post-Roe, medication abortion via telehealth visits accounts for 16% of all reported abortions.

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  • Oman's mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

    March 18, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Oman

    Ancient farming techniques are helping locals to preserve the environment and agroecology while still managing to sustainably grow food in the midst of climate change and other outside challenges. Moreover, the ancient farming practices are a major attraction for agritourism, helping bring money to local communities.

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  • Migrants Navigate State's Apartment Program On Their Own As Evictions Loom And Help Runs Dry

    March 18, 2024 |

    Borderless Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago’s federally-funded Asylum Seeker Emergency Rental Assistance Program is helping migrants move out of shelters by covering six months of rent.

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  • Exonerees, crime survivors come together for healing

    March 17, 2024 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States

    Healing Justice brings exonerees, crime victims and family members from a variety of cases together to share stories, play games, connect and heal together while facing the traumas of wrongful convictions. Since 2015, Healing Justice has hosted 17 retreats, where exonerees and crime victims gather for three days to work through their traumas together.

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  • Rewilding Japan With Clearings in the Forest and Crowdfunding Campaigns

    March 17, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Conservationists in Japan are rewilding the country’s vast monoculture plantation forests to restore biodiversity and allow the ecosystem to return to its natural state, deciduous forest. They are doing so by turning the tree plantations into meadows and buying plots of land with private donations to plant native trees on.

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