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Policies and practices that support young men of color in their teen years can help put them on the path to lead healthy and productive lives. Young men of color face more obstacles in education, employment, and health than their white peers. In order to improve health and success of middle- and high school-aged young men of color, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched Forward Promise in 2011.To inform this new initiative and better understand the issues at work, RWJF engaged the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) to conduct roundtable discussions, online surveys, and telephone…
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This fact sheet gives information on the cause of food-related disagreements in families and provides strategies for effective communication to overcome these disagreements in a healthy way.
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This information brief provides data and other facts about the promotion of mental health, prevention of mental illness, and how to promote awareness, early identification, access to treatment, crisis response, and recovery supports. It helps educate and inform community conversation participants and facilitators about mental health issues. (Author abstract modified)
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This discussion guide provides a resource to help guide participants and facilitators through a one-day community conversation. It offers a framework for holding a successful and productive conversation. The discussion guide includes: discussion questions, sample views about mental health, process suggestions, facilitator tips, and individual and community follow-up steps. (Author abstract modified)
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This planning guide provides tools to help people hold a one-day community conversation. Includes information for planning conversations, recruiting and training facilitators, recruiting conversation participants, and identifying steps participants may want to take in order to raise awareness about mental health and promote access to mental health services. (Author abstract modified)
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Proporciona datos y otra información sobre la promoción de la salud mental, la prevención de las enfermedades mentales y la forma de promover la concientización, la identificación temprana, el acceso al tratamiento, la respuesta ante una crisis y la asistencia para la recuperación. El resumen de información ayuda a educar e informar a los participantes y facilitadores del conversatorio comunitario sobre los problemas de salud mental. (Author abstract)
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Proporciona herramientas para ayudar a las personas a organizar un conversatorio comunitario de un día. Incluye información para la planificación de los conversatorios, el reclutamiento y la capacitación de facilitadores, el reclutamiento de participantes en el debate y la identificación de medidas que pueden tomar los participantes para crear conciencia sobre la salud mental y promover el acceso a los servicios de salud mental. (Author abstract)
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Proporciona un recurso para guiar a los participantes y facilitadores en un conversatorio comunitario de un día. La guía de discusión ofrece una estructura para llevar a cabo un conversatorio exitoso y productivo. La guía de discusión incluye:
-Preguntas para el debate
-Ejemplos de puntos de vista sobre la salud mental
-Sugerencias para el proceso
-Consejos para el facilitador
-Pasos de seguimiento individual y comunitario (Author abstract)
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This publication offers information for parents and caregivers on adolescent social development and offers tips for social service agents and parents on how to encourage healthy social development.
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This publication offers information on healthy relationship for teens and how parents and other caregivers can encourage healthy dating for adolescents.
