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Community Conversations: Youth Mental Health & Preventing Addiction
Join in a collaborative community conversation on the effects of trauma and its connection to potential addictions and impact on mental health. Hosted by Essex County Community Services Board, Building Resilience in Essex Families (BRIEF) Coalition, and ECHO, a series of collaborative conversations on April 16th, 18th, 23rd, and 25th will focus on the effects of childhood trauma, known as ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences), and its connection to potential addictions and impact on mental...
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A New Community Mental Health Program Supports Latino Residents in Orange County
Mentes Fuertes, or Strong Minds, part of a new community health initiative from El Futuro, comes after residents called for more mental health services for Spanish-speaking residents at a public accountability assembly in Chapel Hill last May.
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Palm Spring promises to 'right that wrong' for Black, Latino community destroyed in 1960s
Acknowledging its role in the destruction of a local Black and Latino neighborhood, the Palm Springs City Council promised Thursday to "right that wrong." Council members did not specify what they plan to do for the survivors of the community leveled in the 1960s, however, and made no mention of paying reparations to the families whose homes were demolished. Residents of the Section 14 neighborhood on the outskirts of Palm Springs were working class tenants who lived on tribal land because they...