Café Hope is a job training program for ACRS Behavioral Health clients. Participants typically have cognitive or emotional barriers to employment and varying levels of functionality. From a safe, supportive setting, clients learn about food safety, customer service, making beverages and basic business concepts. They then operate an espresso stand two to four days a […]
Recovery / reclaiming
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 […]
Protected: ROAD: Reaching Out About Depression
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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) […]
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 […]