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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. While it is rarely acknowledged, parents undergo their own developmental changes alongside their children. Development is not an isolated, individual process but one that unfolds within a network of relationships.

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What is Climate Psychology? An Interview with Climate Psychology Alliance’s Rebecca Weston

NonProfit Quarterly

We sat down with clinician and advocate Rebecca Weston to talk about climate psychology, movement journalism, and the responsibility of journalists and clinicians to connect to the emotional impacts of the climate crisis. What is climate psychology? That’s one big part of what climate psychology does. “

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

NonProfit Quarterly

It doesnt matter the reason for the appointment, says Riquelmy Lamour, director of behavioral health and social work at SOMOS. Often, if children are using drugs or there are other family problems, many Latinx community members approach their churches before seeking mental health support. This language is problematic.

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Organizing White Men for Social Justice: Let’s Build

NonProfit Quarterly

The Struggle to Build White Male Antiracist Infrastructure There is a growing network of white menand many otherswho recognize that social justice movements need to create spaces for white men and boys that are nourishing, supportive, and guided by leadership that believes in them.

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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). The Most Vulnerable The report found the “unequal burdens” of children are also deepened by climate change.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most importantly, the initiative was focused on the policy-related goal of health equity, not greater community power. During its decade-long journey through Building Healthy Communities, TCE learned many lessons that continue to inform its approach to grantmaking and social change advocacy. Community grantees knew better.

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Changemakers, Disruptors, and Protectors of Our Earth: Young Women and Girls of the Global Majority Leading Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the United Nations Development Programme, women and children are 14 times more likely to die during a disaster compared to men. 7 Although women and girls experience the greatest impacts of climate change, national climate policies rarely consider their unique needs. It empowers women and girls to become leaders.