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Foster children at high risk for a multitude of mental health problems

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Mar 1, 2022
4 min

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 find new friends at each new school at each home where she was placed. One time, after being forced to leave a foster home she loved, she woke up in her new home with cuts in her arms. She had been fighting the blinds in her sleep, having a bad dream that involved missing the last foster parents. That night, she got a “whipping” from her ne

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Missouri high school students recommend ways to improve school safety, student mental health

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Sep 8, 2021
5 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 school safety discussions. Implementing “calm rooms” where students can go to center themselves. Making every school inclusive and welcoming of students of all genders, sexual identities, races and abilities. These are just some of the ways that Missouri high school students, members of a youth advisory board at St. Louis nonprofit Alive and W

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Missouri high school students call for more mental health services in schools to increase feelings o

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Sep 8, 2021
4 min

Missouri high school students call for more mental health services in schools to increase feelings o

St. Louis, Missouri -- Feeling safe in school was a problem in Missouri even before the pandemic added the unprecedented element of fear and anxiety of being exposed to a potentially deadly virus. As schools moved to remote learning, many of the daily concerns about physical safety in schools-- from bullying to school shooters-- decreased. Yet mental health concerns, including feeling safe, comfortable and supported in the school environment, remained. That, and the return to

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Youth fight for racial justice, and take their convictions to the polls

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Sep 7, 2021
3 min

Youth fight for racial justice, and take their convictions to the polls

By Alan Gomez and Pamela Rentz With the world gripped by a global pandemic and protests over police brutality raging across the U.S., young adults and teenagers played a significant role in the activism work that defined 2020. Generation Z and Millenials were heavily involved in protests, marches, social media campaigns and the November elections. A majority of people who attended Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were under the age of 30 and young Americans turned out for

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Jacksonville youth face rising rates of trauma, mental health issues

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Sep 7, 2021
3 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 proportion of young people visiting an emergency department due to a mental health crisis climbed by 31 percent during the six months between April and October of 2020. And that’s amidst a global pandemic that has left many people afraid to seek treatment, especially in a hospital. It’s impossible to tell how many other young people were in

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Surviving Trauma: COVID-19 Deaths Only One Trauma Young People of Color Face

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Jan 22, 2021
3 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 lost three family members to COVID-19: Her father, brother and a nephew. "I'm seeing more of that than I care to," said Perez, who for 20 years has been helping children, adolescents and their parents cope with and move on from trauma. "My heart goes out to these people." As the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everyone’s life, Black and oth

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Surviving Trauma: She Walks In Her Truth: Washington Woman Works to Help Other LGBTQ+ People of Colo

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Jan 20, 2021
4 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 love herself. Ellis, who identifies as lesbian and came out at the age of 19, knows she was lucky — lucky to be loved for who she is. Still, as a Black and Latinix woman who has struggled with severe depression and suicidal thoughts over the years, she knows how hard it can be for others like her. That helped convince the former Environmenta

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Surviving Trauma: Intergenerational Violence Affects Many in Black Community

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Jan 19, 2021
4 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, though, before she fully understood why: She’d been sexually abused, multiple times, by the time she was a young teenager. Then as an adult, she was physically and verbally abused by her ex-husband, a man who had experienced childhood violence himself when his grandmother’s boyfriend murdered his grandfather. This intergenerational cycle o

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Surviving Trauma: Separating Siblings in Foster Care Can Be Cruel

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Jan 19, 2021
4 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 different families over 19 years. Now 52 and a former boxing champion and motivational speaker in northwest Washington, D.C., Cohen never had a birthday party as a child, and has almost no family photos. She and her four brothers were placed in foster care when her mother was deemed abusive and unfit to care for them. Through all the changes

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Surviving Trauma: Domestic Abuse, Dulos Killing Motivate Mothers’ Political Activism

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Jan 19, 2021
6 min

Surviving Trauma: Domestic Abuse, Dulos Killing Motivate Mothers’ Political Activism

BY GILLIAN LAMPHERE and SAMANTHA ROSENGARD URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT GREENWICH, CONN. – It was only in looking back that the southern Connecticut mother of two saw all the red flags in her marriage: her husband criticized her looks, their childrens’ looks, how she cleaned the house, even her cooking. He’d stand over her, watching her every move, waiting for a mistake. In the early days of their relationship, he was sweet and charming, she said. The change in behavior was gra

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Surviving Trauma: Natural Disasters Leave Mark Years Later on Survivors

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Jan 14, 2021
3 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 hammered South Florida on October 24. The Category 3 storm packed winds of 120 miles per hour when it made landfall in Cape Romano, about 113 miles from Lopes’s home. When it passed, it left 25 people dead and $19 billion in damage. Lopes, 26, who lived in Lake Worth at the time, survived the storm without physical injury. But the impacts o

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Surviving Trauma: Miami Resident Leans on Faith to Cope With Multiple COVID-19 Deaths

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Dec 29, 2020
3 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, lost five loved ones to COVID-19. First it was his cousin, a man in his early 70’s who fell ill at the height of the hospitalizations in New York City in the spring. The second, his nephew’s wife’s father, was a football coach for one of the largest schools in Palm Beach County and was ill for months before succumbing. Then it was two lifel

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Surviving Trauma: Students Shine Light on Bigotry in Their High School

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Dec 29, 2020
3 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 palm… which I’ve witnessed happen to a lot of female students.” “I’ve had people do racist Chinese accents at me while saying racist things. They asked me to do their math work or asked me to read Korean when I’m Filipino and Chinese.” “I remember my first week of school, I was called a cotton picker in first period. People thought that what

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Surviving Trauma: ‘You Do the Right Thing No Matter What’: Coping With COVID-19

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Dec 29, 2020
3 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 who has a history of bronchitis was among the first to fall ill with the virus in his community after attending a ski vacation with friends in February. She was hospitalized for two weeks, but recovered. Binns tested positive two days after. He quarantined at home, terrified that his wife, who was seven months pregnant at the time, would get

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Surviving Trauma: South Philly Man Copes With Past Trauma By Helping Others

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Dec 29, 2020
4 min

Surviving Trauma: South Philly Man Copes With Past Trauma By Helping Others

BY KAYLA JOHNSON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT PHILADELPHIA — Before he was out of his teens, Waltkeem Jenkins had been jumped and shot at and was diagnosed with depression. At the age of 19, Jenkins, now 23, missed a bus he usually took to get home after performing music at an open mic night at a theater in Germantown. While walking home, alone and in the dark, he noticed a group of men following him. After turning and confronting them, one of the men pulled a gun and pointed i

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