Proyecto Nueva Vida works to reduce barriers to behavioral healthcare among Latinos in Bridgeport and surrounding communities. Proyecto Nueva Vida is the result of a coalition between three agencies: CASA, Optimum (formerly Bridgeport Mental Health Center), and the CO-OP Center. Population of focus Latino adults and families About Proyecto Nueva Vida takes “a holistic approach” to serving the population. They […]
Innovative Interventions
Renovacion Conyugal: Developing Strong Families
NNEDLearn 2012 Participant: Renovacion Conyugal Founded in 2001 by Miguel and Belisa Urbina, a couple who had worked for many years helping other couples in their native Puerto Rico. After moving to Georgia they realized the lack of support for Latino families in the state, and with the assistance of Colombian born catholic priest Fr. Hernan […]
Center for Digital Storytelling implemented through the Healing Hurt People Program
NNEDLearn 2012 Participant: Center For Nonviolence and Social Justice/Healing Hurt People Developed by the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) and implemented through the Healing Hurt People Program (HHP). Partner organizations include the Center for Digital Storytelling and The Painted Bride Arts Center. Population of focus This innovation can be adapted to suit any population or cause. Healing Hurt People (HHP) […]
Bienvenido
NNED Community of Practice Trainer: Gilberto Perez, Jr. The Bienvenido curriculum is a strengths-based educational curriculum to enhance awareness of mental health, clarify a participant’s personal goals for an enhanced quality of life, and develop skills to reduce risk for emotional and behavioral risks associated with mental distress. The Bienvenido curriculum is appropriate for use […]
Quilting: Women Centered HIV Wrap Around Care
NNEDLearn 2012 Participant: Lehigh Valley Hospital AIDS Activities Office (LVH AAO) Quilt as both powerful metaphor for collective identity; a narrative device whereby women artistically weave their own her-stories exchanging intergenerational dialogue in the construction of self & communal identity AIDS Quilt: Relabeling/renegotiating a symbol of the intergenerational HIV community Created as a behavioral health […]