Preparing Youth with Behavioral Health Needs to Enter the Workforce: A Pathway to Housing

• By: Jacqueline Brown Lisa Furst, LMSW, MPH Vibrant Emotional Health
• January 22nd, 2024
• adolescent skills centers, educational challenges, homelessness prevention, housing support, life skills education, mental health, trauma recovery, vocational training, Winter 2024 Issue, youth advocacy, youth empowerment
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Imagine sitting in a classroom, expected to absorb the curriculum, when you are extremely worried about whether your family will be evicted from their home. What can you, a young person trying to graduate from high school, do to change your circumstances? What if you have also survived traumatic...

Expanding Affordable Housing and Jobs Programs as Strategies for Addressing the Mental Health and Overdose Crises

• By: Eric Rosenbaum Project Renewal
• January 22nd, 2024
• adverse childhood experiences, affordable housing, discrimination, discriminatory housing practices, employment, homelessness, mental health crisis, overdose crisis, substance use disorders, urban renewal, vocational training, Winter 2024 Issue
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Our society is grappling with mental health and overdose crises. In the United States in 2021, 22.8% of adults experienced mental illness,1 and more than 106,000 Americans died from drug-involved overdose.2 As the leader of a New York City nonprofit provider of shelter, housing, health, and...