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Protecting Children of Immigrant Families: Nonprofit Advocate Responses

NonProfit Quarterly

If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, help is available. One in four children in the United States has at least one immigrant parent. For children in immigrant families, what theyre experiencing at this moment is a sense of uncertainty. In the Border Report , Melissa M.

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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

On August 28, 2024, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared parental stress a public health crisis. This was a notable shift, as the impact of parenting on parents and their unmet needs has largely been absent from discussions of reproductive health in the United States.

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Brave New World: What Does the Digital Age Portend for Health Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

“Braver New World” by DALL-E/OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? By leveraging video conferencing, online chat, and mobile health apps, telemedicine connects patients with healthcare providers in real time.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One of the grandmothers was holding and cooing to the baby, while the grandfather played a game with pre-teen children, freeing the granddaughter to make the fire and cook the meal. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. Households are a function of housing as much as culture.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

This disparity is all the more striking considering the magnitude of challenges here, even before the stormbroadband, health care, and food deserts; intergenerational poverty born from extraction; and the ongoing opioid crisis. Its a deep wound to the fabric of our region. CDP encourages giving grants locally as much as possible.

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Newsletter: Selfish Giving + You: 2025 is Our Year! ; Retail Winners and Losers of 2024 ; How Jimmy Carter Made Habitat a Nonprofit Giant

Selfish Giving

Big Lots Big Lots conducts annual in-store fundraising campaigns to support On Our Sleeves , a movement focused on children's mental health. Customers can donate at checkout, with 100% of the funds going toward providing free mental health educational resources. How Gillette Children's Hospital in St.

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Isabella Angélica on unsplash.com The dismal statistics on maternal health outcomes in the United States are well-known in health justice, health equity, and health philanthropy circles. Though poor maternal mental health can affect all women, the rates are higher for Black and Indigenous women.

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