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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
1 February 2021
Port Angeles, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A school in the city of Port Angeles has been reopened since October 2020, it offers valuable pandemic lessons for other schools that are in the process of reopening. Aside from logistical things like temperature chec...
14 January 2021
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Providing people with housing and then giving them the services they need to stay housed is also a very effective way to save tax-payer money. Reducing chronic homeless through programs like The Madrone Project helps ...
29 September 2020
Ibadan, Nigeria
Text
800-1500 Words
In Nigeria, a methodology known as task-sharing is helping to lessen the burden on the country's mental health care system. The premise of this model is to train "other health personnel, such as community health worke...
28 September 2020
Wausau, Wisconsin, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Wisconsin, plain-clothes law enforcement officers are teaming up with mental health experts to handle calls related to crisis intervention. The goal of the Marathon County Crisis Assessment Response Team is to redu...
The Laconia Daily Sun
Roberta Baker
27 April 2020
Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The coronavirus pandemic has prompted health insurance companies to support coverage of telemedicine across the United States, and in New Hampshire, mental health counselors are seeing many advantages to the practice....
23 March 2020
Australia
Text
1500-3000 Words
Lonely Conservationists, an online forum that unites conservationists from around the world, has more than 2,500 members and 55 posts by conservationists who share their experiences of being exhausted, undervalued, un...
11 December 2019
Ellicott City, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Start With Hello, an initiative from the NGO Sandy Hook Promise, gives students the opportunity to diversify who they know and interact with in a long-term effort to prevent school violence and shootings. The program,...
23 October 2019
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
In Eugene, Oregon, the Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets (CAHOOTS) initiative is providing a police-free response to mental health crises in the community. The mobile mental health unit responds to calls in...
11 October 2019
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Eugene, Oregon’s Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS) program provides specialists in response to mental health-related calls instead of police. The 30-year-old program partners with nonprofits, law ...
The New York Times
Jane E. Brody
2 September 2019
Portland, Maine, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Portland Identification and Early Referral (PIER) program serves to train health officials how to identify early signs of mental illness in young adults, and it's working. The program, which saw a "35 percent decl...
20 August 2019
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
In 2016, Utah debuted SafeUT, a streamlined crisis center with on-call mental health specialists that students can call or text about potential threats to schools or personal mental health concerns. SafeUT was born ou...
16 July 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
Text
1500-3000 Words
Individuals at a high risk of suicide can benefit from targeted, accessible, and client-centered care. As part of a new mental health initiative, the Czech government is funding mental health centers for patients at h...
17 June 2019
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In a statewide, multi-business effort, California is working to identify a way to use technology to intervene in mental crises through the use of psychiatric apps. Acting as an early warning system, the piloting of th...
10 June 2019
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
People who experience trauma in their early childhood are at a higher likelihood of experiencing chronic pain in later years, which often goes untreated. However, emotional awareness and expression therapy, which comb...
4 June 2019
Italy
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
"We exploited the biological clock," is how an Italian psychiatrist describes what he has been testing to treat those suffering from bipolar disorder and depression. The approach, which has received both praise and cr...
Concentrate
Sarah Rigg
17 April 2019
Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Living with dementia can often lead to loneliness for not just those inflicted, but also the caregivers involved. To help create a community around this, the Ypsilanti Senior Center has started a monthly Memory Cafe t...
9 April 2019
Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
People with mental illnesses often do not receive patient-centered care that takes into consideration the mental illness along with the health concern they’re facing. Aiming to address this issue as is specifically pe...
26 March 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
A copywriting student at Miami Ad School developed small, stylish buttons depicting different commonly taken medications to encourage conversations around mental illness and to destigmatize mental health issues. The "...
24 March 2019
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The use of solitary confinement, or administrative segregation, in prisons is facing pushback across the country. In Alabama, a federal judge tasked the Department of Corrections to investigate how other states are re...
City Limits
Noah Phillips
13 February 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In New York City, much of the mental health infrastructure relies on the work of professionals known as Peer Specialists, who are individuals with lived experiences of mental health challenges and additional training ...
The Victoria Advocate
Jessica Priest
21 January 2019
Victoria, Texas, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
In Victoria County, Texas, juries were tasked with determining whether or not the person being tried was fit to stand trial, oftentimes wasting taxpayer dollars and delaying treatment for those that need it. To change...
18 January 2019
Tokyo, Japan
Video
5-15 Minutes
In Japan, an organization called New Start employs women that help men who are withdrawn from society. These men, called hikikomori, are often experiencing mental health issues, and cannot leave their homes. That’s wh...
24 November 2018
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Cahoots, or Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets, is a non-profit group that responds to mental health emergency calls instead of police in Eugene, Oregon. The group is cheaper than sending first responders, b...
31 October 2018
San Jose, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Injectable antipsychotics make adherence easier for the estimated 40-90 percent who struggle to remember their pills. These injections can help stabilize moods and symptoms for patients of psychological disorders like...
16 October 2018
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
Storytelling is integral to shaping individual's identity, but researchers across the world are now finding that it may even impact an individual's health. From better communication between doctor and patient to group...
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