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Mental Health Advocates Aim to Dismantle Barriers to Care for Latinx Residents

NonProfit Quarterly

This gap is fueled by a series of barriers that include linguistic limitations, higher poverty rates, lack of insurance, the high cost of treatment, the lack of bilingual services, and the lack of training of many mental health professionals to understand Latin American cultures that often discourage accessing mental healthcare.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty. 9 The rents collected by CDCs strengthened market approaches to poverty, encouraging what we now may refer to as sustainability.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

Notably, 982 of these prevent or hinder access to employment, including background checks and restrictions on the activities of survivors of the War on Drugs during their probation or parole. The informal economy is a diversified set of economic activities that are unprotected and unregulated by the state.

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How International Adoption Is Failing Children

NonProfit Quarterly

Amid the poverty, uncertainty, and violence, it is estimated that over 40,000 children left the country through international adoption. But it’s only recently that the mental health field has started to identify the long-term psychological impacts of adoption. What Went Wrong? From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala was ravaged by civil war.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The proposed work would integrate fundamental changes in programs and policies to transform driver education, active and latent safety measures, and the built environment.

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How Indigenous Wisdom Can Support Youth Mental Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is good news for our youth, many of whom experience mental health challenges rooted in intergenerational trauma, poverty, and social alienation. While completing my doctorate in psychology, I conducted research as part of a formal gathering of Native American healers and service providers.

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How the Climate Crisis is Changing Mental Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

Care for Those Caring for Our Environment The prevalence of eco-anxiety in activism circles is under-attended and often ignored in favor of wholly investing oneself in the movement. In addition, several grassroots organizations are prioritizing a care-based approach to activism. These spaces also serve as a form of therapy.