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Ruck March raises money for veterans’ mental health
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s Time to Shed Light On the Psychological Impacts of Hunger.
In Isiolo County, Kenya, a baby named Clinton was abandoned and left for dead by his mother, who was struggling with mental health concerns and addiction. Clinton’s grandmother, Mary, found him just in time. Alone, Clinton had been eating dirt. Community Health Promoters, trained by Action Against Hunger, screened Clinton for malnutrition and quickly put…
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Harwood students mark Mental Health Awareness with multiple activities
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Harwood Union Middle/High School students are observing it in multiple ways. Last year we created a mural inside the school’s main entrance with the message “You are not alone.” This year so far there has been a series of activities and efforts around mental health awareness. This past…
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Creating awareness around behavioral health
JACKSON, Mich. (WILX) – A behavioral summit focusing on mental health, drug prevention, and trauma was held early Thursday morning in the city of Jackson. The summit is to help create awareness about behavioral health like educating community partners, reducing stigma, and building support for individuals affected by the disorders of mental health and substance…
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In-Home Mental Health Services for Children
Penfield Children Center’s mission is to ensure that children have positive early experiences from pregnancy through age 5 – when the foundations for lifelong development are established. For over 55 years Penfield Children’s Center has been a leader in child development, providing educational opportunities, behavioral health and therapy services, special care nursing services and an…
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North River Fire: A case study in mental health support and member retention
There was a time in the not-too-distant fire service past when concern for firefighters’ mental health was less than an afterthought. The prevailing attitude was if you have trouble handling the stressors of the job, that’s your problem. That was the past. But people like Joseph Sicking, chief of the North River (Florida) Fire District…
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Opinion | Mental Health Needs a Front-Row Seat in Education
RULEVILLE, Miss.—Skylar was constantly being referred to the office for defiance, disobedience and disruption at 14 years old. She was disrespectful to adults in our building and was repeatedly suspended. Many wrote her off as a “bad” student, but her behavior baffled me. I knew there was something deeper going on because I, too, had…
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Noah Kahan Is ‘Doing as Much Good as Possible’ as His Mental Health Initiatives Scale Up
For Noah Kahan, describing the past year as a whirlwind is an understatement. “It’s really been two years now,” Kahan tells Billboard of grinding out various tour legs in support of his breakthrough 2022 album, Stick Season, and watching his audiences balloon month after month. “I’ll have a two-month run, and then three or four…
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Investigating self-harm and digital technology overuse in young people with lived mental health experience
Investigating self-harm and digital technology overuse in young people with lived mental health experience May 23, 2024 Editors’ notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by King’s College London Credit: cottonbro studio…
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New Hilltop mental health hospital unveiled amid workforce shortage and high care demand
State officials unveiled a new mental health hospital serving central Ohio on Wednesday, starting the next chapter of an eight-year project that Republican Gov. Mike DeWine called “a new era” for Ohio’s mental health care system. The ribbon-cutting of the Central Ohio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital on Columbus’ West Side comes amid both a growing need…