Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
21 July 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
For three days each summer, the Girls Embracing Mothers (GEM) camp near Dallas gives girls an escape from their daily reality of being denied a normal relationship with their incarcerated mothers. Founded by a lawyer ...
24 June 2021
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
ChildSavers is a Richmond-based nonprofit offering students access to mental health services. The organization has group therapy sessions specifically focused on race and race-based stressors, along with telehealth an...
Bridge Michigan
Ted Roelofs
11 June 2021
Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
After taking care of her own parents, Paula Duren started “boot camp” sessions for caregivers to share available resources, tips for self-care, and support. Drawing on her experience as a psychologist, Duren started t...
20 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Philadelphia police fail to solve most of the city's growing number of homicides, in part because of the no-snitching street code, a byproduct of the community's lack of trust in police. But the streets do sometimes t...
18 May 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At the Los Angeles County Jail, two men incarcerated on pending murder charges created a homegrown approach to improving the care and conditions of confinement for people with serious mental illness. Their approach is...
13 May 2021
Akron, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
People returning home to Akron from prison step into a community that needs healing, work that the formerly incarcerated can help with because of the lessons they can impart to younger people. But first they need thei...
6 May 2021
Columbus, Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The Bartholomew County Jail's drug treatment program started in January 2020 with a rigorous application process, followed by about 400 hours of group and individual therapy for incarcarcerated people with drug abuse ...
17 March 2021
Teton County, Wyoming, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
First responders who face devastating emergency response outcomes in Wyoming are finding support through the Teton Interagency Peer Support group. The group anonymously connects the first responders with trauma-inform...
8 March 2021
New South Wales, Australia
Text
800-1500 Words
Mothers and Sons is a six-week domestic-violence prevention program for boys 6-8 years old and their mothers. Unlike programs aimed at older youth and men, mothers sign up for this because they want their sons to grow...
3 March 2021
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Duluth Model is one of multiple successful responses to domestic violence that focus on prevention through counseling and education, rather than relying only on punishment after a crime has been committed. The oft...
8 February 2021
Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Since 2017, two publicly funded trauma recovery centers in Illinois have helped violent-crime survivors cope with the emotional fallout that can accompany a loved one's murder or surviving their own violent attack. Ca...
5 February 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Groups like Parents for Peace and Life After Hate use former radicals to counsel people in the grip of right-wing extremism. Bombarded by pleas for help by families since the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, these gro...
26 January 2021
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A successful tiny home community in Missouri is inspiring a doctor-nurse duo to establish one in Wilmington, North Carolina. The idea took hold after they realized that chronic homelessness had a huge impact on health...
26 January 2021
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Diversity in Recovery created an inclusive space for the LGBTQ community, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, and allies, many of whom report negative experiences because of their race, sexuality, and/or gen...
22 January 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
Text
800-1500 Words
The Calm Hotline takes calls from men in Bogotá, Colombia, in an effort to address the root causes of domestic violence: a culture of machismo. Four psychologists take emergency calls – about 700 calls came in the ser...
11 January 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As the coronavirus pandemic forces people into isolation and social distancing, places known as "peer respites" are providing a space for those "experiencing or nearing a mental health crisis" to seek help. While the ...
The Local
Stephanie Alvarez
22 December 2020
Bremen, Germany
Text
800-1500 Words
Queeraspora was founded in Bremen as a safe space for immigrant and refugee LGBTQ+ people to find social and emotional support, as well as access to information. Around twenty people make up the nucleus of the group, ...
18 December 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the 1980s, a virtual messaging network, then known as bulletin board systems (BBSs), acted as a support group for many who were in search of peer support and reliable information as the AIDS epidemic spread. Althou...
10 December 2020
Burundi
Text
1500-3000 Words
A grassroots movement in Burundi has resulted in more familial bliss for households who suffered from domestic abuse. Through CARE International, a group of Burundian men are taking on toxic masculinity, entrenched cu...
6 December 2020
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
Text
800-1500 Words
The Bearded Fisherman, a mental health charity formed by two men with their own past struggles with mental illness and homelessness, runs a weekly, virtual community support group, takes crisis-intervention calls, and...
28 November 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous are turning to Zoom and other telehealth tools to maintain a connection with clients during the coronavirus pandemic. While data are lacking about "the effectiveness of onli...
12 November 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A pilot program within the child welfare system in Philadelphia is providing wraparound services for parents at risk of losing custody of their children. The multi-disciplinary services include an attorney, social wor...
21 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
In the 1960s, a psychologist and a team of researchers in San Francisco began sending “caring letters" as a means of suicide intervention, but the practice didn't continue outside of the research study, despite showin...
19 October 2020
Glendale, Arizona, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A counseling program introduced at Glendale Fire Department has now spread to a handful of other departments across the state after reporting that a significant percentage of firefighters were using the counseling ser...
15 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Early in the pandemic, APIENC, a community organization led by trans, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pacific Islanders in San Francisco, started a phone tree to offer help to people: getting groceries or meals, provi...
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