Foster children at high risk for a multitude of mental health problems
By Yesenia Barrios Lisa Cohen, author, boxer and former foster child Lisa Cohen had to start over 13 times. As a foster kid she needed to...
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Sep 8, 20215 min
Missouri high school students recommend ways to improve school safety, student mental health
By Brie Zeltner and Malaya Mason St. Louis, MO - More licensed therapists on campus. Requiring parent or guardian participation in all...
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Sep 8, 20214 min
Missouri high school students call for more mental health services in schools to increase feelings o
By Sarah Gandluri and Brie Zeltner St. Louis, Missouri -- Feeling safe in school was a problem in Missouri even before the pandemic added...
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Sep 7, 20213 min
Jacksonville youth face rising rates of trauma, mental health issues
By Angely Pena Agramonte Teens today are under a lot of stress: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that the...
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Jan 22, 20213 min
Surviving Trauma: COVID-19 Deaths Only One Trauma Young People of Color Face
BY SAMARAH BENTLEY URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT NEW ORLEANS -- In one week, a patient of New Orleans clinical psychologist Dr. Baraka Perez...
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Jan 20, 20214 min
Surviving Trauma: She Walks In Her Truth: Washington Woman Works to Help Other LGBTQ+ People of Colo
BY VANESSA FALCON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Heidi Ellis, 36, was taught to love reading, to love her culture, and to...
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Jan 19, 20214 min
Surviving Trauma: Intergenerational Violence Affects Many in Black Community
BY AJMAANIE ANDRE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI – Charlene Bouie felt different from other children from an early age. It was decades,...
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Jan 19, 20214 min
Surviving Trauma: Separating Siblings in Foster Care Can Be Cruel
BY IJEOMA OKERE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Growing up in the city’s foster care system, Lisa Cohen bounced between 13...
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Jan 14, 20213 min
Surviving Trauma: Natural Disasters Leave Mark Years Later on Survivors
BY ANURA SHARMA URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — Caio Lopes was a high school student in 2005 in Palm Beach County when Hurricane Wilma...
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Dec 29, 20203 min
Surviving Trauma: Miami Resident Leans on Faith to Cope With Multiple COVID-19 Deaths
BY DANIEL GONZALEZ III URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — Over just a few months during the pandemic, Elbert Waters, 66, of Miami Lakes,...
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Dec 29, 20203 min
Surviving Trauma: Students Shine Light on Bigotry in Their High School
BY ALLEGRA COLEMAN URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT CHICAGO — Their stories were graphic, and numerous. “I’ve had my butt grabbed, like a full...
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Dec 29, 20203 min
Surviving Trauma: ‘You Do the Right Thing No Matter What’: Coping With COVID-19
BY KHIMMOY HUDSON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — For Basil Binns II, 38, the trauma of COVID-19 struck early. His 70-year-old mother...
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