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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 Andrew Subica et al.,

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The lack of income earned by Black men’s mass incarceration plunged many Black families into poverty for decades, caused the loss of homeownership, and eliminated other opportunities for Black families to build wealth over the long term. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We found that in Brazil, social entrepreneurs from poor communities differ significantly from those from higher social classes, especially in terms of their access to financial, human, psychological, and social capital. Let us look at these types of capital one by one.

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What privilege means and how we use it

CNPE

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. I earned a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology. I understand where they are coming from.

Poverty 98
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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.

Health 105
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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. Yet, a recent literature survey by Mezzenzana and four other colleagues notes how the Nurturing Care Framework largely excludes insights and evidence from anthropology, cultural psychology, and ethnography.

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Healing the Frontlines of Racial, Climate, and Gender Injustice

NonProfit Quarterly

This led the Hive Fund to create the Healing Justice and Holistic Security grantmaking program—aimed at providing BIPOC women leaders and their communities with tools and practices needed to heal and combat threats to digital, physical, and psychological safety.