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

NonProfit Quarterly

This gap is fueled by a series of barriers that include linguistic limitations, higher poverty rates, lack of insurance, the high cost of treatment, the lack of bilingual services, and the lack of training of many mental health professionals to understand Latin American cultures that often discourage accessing mental healthcare.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty. 9 The rents collected by CDCs strengthened market approaches to poverty, encouraging what we now may refer to as sustainability.

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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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How International Adoption Is Failing Children

NonProfit Quarterly

Amid the poverty, uncertainty, and violence, it is estimated that over 40,000 children left the country through international adoption. But it’s only recently that the mental health field has started to identify the long-term psychological impacts of adoption. What Went Wrong? From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala was ravaged by civil war.

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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.

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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” Such considerations can be symbiotic, benefitting both the environment and individuals’ psychological wellbeing.

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