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 […]
Innovative Interventions
Hoy Recovery Program: Incorporating Cultural Healers & Agriculture in Substance Abuse Recovery
Hoy Recovery works to incorporate traditional cultural healing practices in the treatment of substance abuse. Two of the key ways that they do this are through inclusion of cultural healers and their Agricultural Project. The Agriculture Project treats chemically dependent service users by emphasizing and reinforcing their relationship with the land, an important component of traditional Hispanic culture in the […]
Café Hope Espresso Project: Job Training Program for Behavioral Health Clients
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 […]
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14
NNEDLearn 2012 Training Track: Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 The Strengthening Families Program (SFP 10-14) is a parent, youth, and family skills-building curriculum designed to prevent teen substance abuse and other behavior problems, strengthen parenting skills, and build family strengths. The program has been designed and used with ethnically diverse families in rural and […]
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 […]
Connecticut Latino Behavioral Health System: Expanding Culturally Relevant Treatment Alternatives
The overarching goal of the Connecticut Latino Behavioral Health System (CT LBHS) is improved behavioral health care through the permanent expansion and enhancement of culturally relevant treatment alternatives for the Latino population of Connecticut. The Hispanic Clinic of the Connecticut Mental Health Center functions as the coordinating anchor for the CT LBHS. The aim is to […]