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The Community Responder Model: How Cities Can Send the Right Responder to Every 911 Call
This report details several existing programs that send nonpolice responders to handle such issues, including the Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS) program in Eugene, Oregon. -
Protests grip Philadelphia, leaving officers injured and stores damaged, after police kill a Black man (CW: Violence and Death)
The killing of Walter Wallace Jr. on a Philadelphia street Monday afternoon became the latest police shooting to prompt outraged protests in a year that has been regularly punctuated by them. His family said he suffered from mental illness and angrily questioned why police had not used nonlethal methods to subdue him. “Unfortunately this is […] -
Pandemic depression is about to collide with seasonal depression. Make a plan, experts say.
Seasonal depression, known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD is a type of depression that occurs when it gets colder, there’s less light and it’s more difficult to get outside. Mental health experts worry that, because the pandemic has already triggered depressive symptoms in many Americans, more people will experience seasonal depressive symptoms this winter. […] -
Building Resilience During a Difficult Year
"While it may feel like the only impacts this year have been negative, adversity always brings out positive outcomes as well." -
Planning for Youth Emotional Health in Unruly Environments: Bringing a Trauma Informed Community Building Lens to Therapeutic Planning
The paper seeks to explore two primary questions. How was TICB (Trauma Informed Community Building) integrated into practice and how did it support health outcomes for youth, if at all? Second, what are the limitations of the TICB model and is it a sustainable approach to planning for emotion in unruly environments? The article closes with a discussion of the potential contributions and limitations of TICB in engaging historical, structural (systems level) and individual trauma into youth community building. -
Mental health services for Latinos are in low supply, higher demand due to COVID-19
For years, Latinos have faced challenges in obtaining culturally competent mental health care. And the need is only growing during the pandemic, as practitioners across the country receive more referrals from patients within the Latinx community. Only 5.5% of psychologists can provide services in Spanish, according to a 2015 APA survey, and U.S. Census data […] -
Impacting Mental Health Resources with Your Vote
"So much about mental health is shaped by laws and policies developed by elected officials." -
Four Reasons Why I Vote for Mental Health
Regardless of our personal experience with mental illness, we all have a duty to consider the numerous ways that our political power — our vote — can alter the lives of others. -
Register for NAMI’s Ask the Expert Webinar: Good News for People with Mental Illness as the Great American Smokeout Nears
Register for NAMI’s Ask the Expert Webinar “Good News for People with Mental Illness as the Great American Smokeout Nears” on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. ET. -
Mental Health Resources for Black Americans
Systemic racism and hostile racial environments are nothing new in the United States, but 2020 has marked a significant milestone in awareness and lack of tolerance for it. Ironically, while this upheaval signals the potential for change, it has also put a strain on the mental health of many Black Americans, whose stress may be […]