ConnectFamilias/ Little Havana Community Partnership is built on the premise that children do better when their families are strong, and that families do better when they live in neighborhoods that help them succeed as productive citizens. ConnectFamilias is building a comprehensive, neighborhood based and family focused system of care. ConnectFamilias promotes family and community safety […]
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CBT ABC way: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Multilingual Mobile Apps for Kids, Teens and Adults
The CBT ABC way multilingual, mobile applications help to practice paying attention to negative thoughts, and learning to challenge them with reasonable thoughts in order to feel better. They are based on a step-by-step approach that is easy to use and interactive. The apps can also help people practice what counselors and therapists teach in […]
Family Acceptance Project: Reducing Mental Health Disparities among LGBT Youth & Young Adults
The Family Acceptance Project™ is the only community research, intervention, education and policy initiative that works to decrease major health and related risks for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, such as suicide, substance abuse, HIV and homelessness – in the context of their families. The program uses a research-based, culturally grounded approach to […]
Latino Multifamily Group (Latino MFG) Program
NNED Community of Practice: Latino Multifamily Group (Latino MFG) Program The Latino Multifamily Group (Latino MFG) program facilitates the involvement of Spanish-speaking Latino families in mental health services for their ill family members. Based on the Multifamily Group program first developed by Dr. William McFarlane and widely validated, the Latino MFG program is presented in Spanish […]
Playforward: Elm City Stories – iPad Video Game to Prevent HIV Infection among Youth
Yale researchers are developing a video game for the iPad aimed at preventing HIV infection among ethnic minority adolescents. Their study appears in Games for Health, titled A Qualitative Study to Inform the Development of a Videogame for Adolescent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention. The video game, which is called Playforward: Elm City Stories, is being developed, in collaboration […]
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