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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). And as the climate crisis continues, whose mental health is most at risk? They may lose their homes.

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What privilege means and how we use it

CNPE

A guest blog post by Pamela Darnall, CEO of Family & Children's Place. . They will point to challenges they have faced in the past – and may be still facing – unemployment, poverty, health challenges, and more. I grew up in poverty. Both my parents grew up living in poverty. and CNPE Board Member.

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New Report Looks at Women’s Incarceration in America

NonProfit Quarterly

The report also finds that women who enter jails are more likely to have a medical problem or severe mental illness, which exacerbates the psychological distress that they face while incarcerated. Even a short stint of incarceration has been reported to cause lasting damage to one’s health.

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Changing the Economic Game in Rural America: Overcoming Financial Trauma

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.

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How International Adoption Is Failing Children

NonProfit Quarterly

As news outlets and social media feeds are flooded with endless images of violence against children, some in the Global North have expressed a desire to adopt Palestinian children to give them a chance at a better life. Despite this decrease, the complications that come with international adoption remain.

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Healing Systems

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Wainwright is the CEO of Family Life , one of Australia’s largest family services providers working with vulnerable children and their families. “If The prevailing narrative, which focuses on individuals, treats traumatized people as psychologically abnormal, rather than as having a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Los Muertos Crew on pexels.com On May 1, 2023, a Cessna plane took off from the tiny Amazonian town of Araracuara in Colombia, carrying seven passengers: the pilot, four children, their mother, and another adult. But the four children—Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (4), and Cristin (1)—survived.

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