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Surviving Trauma: Natural Disasters Leave Mark Years Later on Survivors
By Anura Sharma January 14, 2021 Youthcast Media Group® MIAMI — Caio Lopes was a high school student in 2005 in Palm Beach County when...
Jan 14, 20213 min read
Surviving trauma: Even years later, trauma from Parkland shooting translates to action
By Michelle Mairena January 4, 2021 Youthcast Media Group ® MIAMI — It was Logan Rubenstein’s first week of freshman year at Marjory...
Jan 4, 20215 min read
Surviving Trauma: Miami Resident Leans on Faith to Cope With Multiple COVID-19 Deaths
BY Daniel Gonzalez III December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group® URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — Over just a few months during the...
Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: Students Shine Light on Bigotry in Their High School
By Allegra Coleman December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Grou p® CHICAGO — Their stories were graphic, and numerous. “I’ve had my butt...
Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: Trans Sex Worker Advocate Supports Others Facing Trauma
Chose sex trade to support child as she transitioned from being a male teen This story was published on Feb. 8, 2021 in the DC Line , a...
Dec 29, 20205 min read
Surviving Trauma: Trauma of Past Lives and Hunger Can Follow Immigrants to U.S.
By Fabiha Faruque December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group ® MIAMI — As a child growing up in Cuba, Anthony Vidal vividly recalls what it...
Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: ‘You Do the Right Thing No Matter What’: Coping With COVID-19
By Khimmoy Hudson December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group ® MIAMI — For Basil Binns II, 38, the trauma of COVID-19 struck early. His...
Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: South Philly Man Copes With Past Trauma By Helping Others
By Kayla Johnson December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group ® PHILADELPHIA — Before he was out of his teens, Waltkeem Jenkins had been...
Dec 29, 20204 min read
New Fund Launched to Improve Mental Health Services for Adolescents of Color and LGBTQ+
By Madeleine Voth October 25, 2020 Youthcast Media Group ® “What happens when reality is so painful, that hiding away is the only...
Oct 25, 20203 min read
The stigma of seeking mental healthcare hurts traumatized teens
Rowan Battle October 1, 2019 Youthcast Media Group ® When trauma in the black community is discussed, and its causes and possible cures...
Oct 1, 20195 min read
Erasing the stigma: How shame about mental health has affected African-American families for generat
Davon Harris, Ciara Jones and Princyana Hudson September 16, 2019 Youthcast Media Group ® Sidney Davis did not want to be known as that ...
Sep 16, 20197 min read
What’s behind the growing trend of booze-free events?
September 16, 2019 Youthcast Media Group ® During her years as a reporter in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s, Jayne O’Donnell says she was...
Sep 16, 20192 min read
After lapse in recovery, Ruth Pointer is “all excited” about living a healthy life again
By Khadejah Cox and Princyana Hudson July 12, 2019 Youthcast Media Group ® Despite having top-20 hits from 1973 all the way to 2017 and...
Jul 12, 20192 min read
IMessage Saviors
By Courtney Curtis November 19, 2018 Youthcast Media Group ® When access to mental health services isn't an option, having a solid...
Nov 19, 20184 min read
How Stress is Different for Y2K Babies, and How to Handle It
By Marquart Doty and Indra Lunder January 12, 2018 Youthcast Media Group ® High-schoolers have been stressed since the dawn of time. Even...
Jan 12, 20185 min read
Abuse: No One Talked About It
By Sierra Lewter December 8, 2017 Youthcast Media Group ® L.Y. Marlow, founder of SavingPromise.org, is shown being interviewed by UHMP...
Dec 8, 20175 min read
How Social Media Affects Teen Health
By Asha Davis and Erin Burnett December 8, 2017 Youthcast Media Group ® Even though we see teenagers on social media looking fine,...
Dec 8, 20173 min read
Art helped heal teacher and now his students
By Janiya Battle and Ashanea Parker September 10, 2017 Youthcast Media Group ® Art is therapy for some, and art comes in different forms...
Sep 10, 20172 min read
Finding a space for acceptance
By Karla Lozano July 31, 2017 Youthcast Media Group ® The “H.E.R. Healing” workshops were very interesting and allowed me to see a...
Jul 31, 20171 min read
Workshops create healing spaces for women
By Sierra Lewter, Ashanea Parker and Karla Lozano July 31, 2017 Youthcast Media Group ® The women who join the H.E.R. Healing program...
Jul 31, 20172 min read
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