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When the Mouth Speaks, the Whole Person Heals: Bringing Integrative Community Therapy and Solidarity Care from Brazil’s Favelas to the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

And while technology can provide tools that can be very helpful to achieving our evolving healthcare and related social needs, human connection remains the pivotal key to healthcare as well as our overall health and wellbeing. 1 We live in a world of increasing social fragmentation, trauma, and stress.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. It is by no accident that the US medical system has ended up where it is. In as early as the 16th century, enslaved Africans were subject to medical experimentation on US plantations. 10 Only 35.1

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Bilingual Housing and Benefits Navigator

Anedot

Hybrid schedule possible in accordance with NMCS policy and manager approval. This position directly supports a team of case managers in leading efforts to assist our community in finding wellness, dignity, housing, and public benefit resources. Schedule Mondays – Fridays. Experience working with electronic health records and Medi-Cal.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. Of course, the drug war is not the only reason why reparations are required.

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Healing Systems

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The trauma we carry affects the way we look at the world and ourselves, and therefore plays a role in determining the future course of social systems. 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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Sabbaticals: A Gateway to Reimagining Health

NonProfit Quarterly

Stepping Back, Stepping Forward Sabbaticals for BIPOC Leaders , the report published by the BIPOC ED Coalition in Washington that pushed for the sabbatical fund, points out that “the current climate is taking an immeasurable psychological, physical, and emotional toll, especially on women of color leaders.”

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A Partnership Industry for Impactful Ed-Tech

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Indeed, the lack of public leadership and financial incentives has positioned investors as not only economic but also political actors whose investment priorities speak to quality questions of the entire ed-tech ecosystem. However, this model is not universally preferred.