PASS aims to improve youth psychosocial, educational, and community outcomes. It also works with the parents of the youths providing them with education and supports to enable them to improve their relationships with their children. PASS was founded by consumers, mental health professionals, and community volunteers, all of whom were persons of color. The program […]
Prevention
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 […]
Children’s Resilience Initiative of Walla Walla: Resilience Trumps Adverse Childhood Experiences
The Children’s Resilience Initiative™ (CRI) of Walla Walla is building the community’s capacity to strengthen families. While adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are devastating to one’s health, CRI has created a model of the community’s services and roads to follow to build resilience. CRI is striving to help those affected and to prevent more ACEs in their […]
SAFE VET: Suicide Assessment and Follow-up Engagement Veteran Emergency Treatment
The Suicide Assessment and Follow-up Engagement: Veteran Emergency Treatment (SAFE VET), a brief intervention and intensive follow-up program for suicidal veterans, was found to be extremely acceptable to both veterans and mental health service providers. The intervention also showed promise in helping veterans cope with suicidal crises and seek mental health services following a crisis. […]
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 […]