Instituto Familiar de la Raza‘s La Cultura Cura offers youth positive alternatives to violence and incarceration through a range of services and cultural arts activities including intensive case management, court advocacy, mental health services and innovative arts programming. La Cultura Cura is noted for providing critical programming for monolingual Spanish-speaking and multicultural Latino youth and their […]
Special Populations
The Jericho Project: Alternative to Jail for People with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
The Jericho Project provides an alternative to jail for people with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse who have been arrested and charged with a crime. Many of their clients have cycled in and out of the justice system, homelessness, emergency rooms and other costly emergency services for years without ever getting the treatment […]
New Futures: Helping Communities and Educators to Provide Children Culturally Relevant Programs
New Futures partners with families in their communities and with educators to ensure that children succeed in school and in life. Their integrated, culturally relevant programs in low-income apartment complexes build skills, foster connectedness, and promote strengths. Population of focus Low income children, youth, families and adults in South King County, Washington state Implementation New Futures increases access to services by […]
Community Access: Building Hopes, Homes and Futures
Community Access was founded in 1974 as a response to the mass release of patients from New York’s psychiatric hospitals. The founders pooled their energies, monies and efforts to assist residents in obtaining housing, reconnecting with the community, finding work and rebuilding social ties. These early efforts became the prototype for one of the nation’s […]
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Treatment Services Locator
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides an on-line directory for locating drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs, and mental health treatment facilities and programs. The Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator lists private and public facilities that are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved for inclusion by their State substance abuse agency, and […]
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 […]