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The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is a grantmaking organization with the mission to improve the mental health of Texans. As a unit of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin, the Foundation seeks to bolster conditions that support mental health and eliminate conditions that harm mental health. [1]
Peer support can occur within, outside or around traditional mental health services and programs, between two people or in groups. Peer support is increasingly being offered through digital health like text messaging and smartphone apps. [31] Peer support is a key concept in the recovery approach [32] and in consumer-operated services programs ...
Peer mentoring in education was promoted during the 1960s by educator and theorist Paulo Freire: "The fundamental task of the mentor is a liberatory task. It is not to encourage the mentor's goals and aspirations and dreams to be reproduced in the mentees, the students, but to give rise to the possibility that the students become the owners of their own history.
The Youth Mental Health Corps, a first-of-its-kind public-private initiative trains youth to help their peers and get credentials to pursue behavioral health careers to help tackle the youth ...
11 Stress-Management Tips for Better Mental Health. In honor of World Mental Health Day, Vivian Health wants to put the spotlight on the well-being of HCPs. However, nurses and allied health ...
A US Air Force member providing youth mentoring. A meta-analysis of 112 individual research studies found mentoring has significant behavioral, attitudinal, health-related, relational, motivational, and career benefits. [32] For a learner, these benefits depend on the different functions being performed by the mentor.
Texas Health Resources is the largest faith-based, nonprofit health system in North Texas in terms of inpatients and outpatients served. Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas – Home to one of Dallas County's 3 Level 1 Trauma Centers and to a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Methodist Dallas is licensed for 556 beds. Awarded ...
The MPG is an easy-to-use program database established to assist practitioners, policymakers, and communities in identifying and implementing programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and families. Information includes child victimization, substance abuse, youth violence, mental health and trauma, and gang activity.