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Lisa Reisman |
Apr 10, 2025 9:45 am
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Member of the maternal health program and baby at recent session at the Q House.
Chantell Thompson’s teenage daughter recently came home from school with her nose pierced. Thompson was livid. Then she took a deep breath. She cooled her thoughts.
“Instead of telling her she did something that would mess up her face — that’s a hot thought — I reframed it as ‘she’s exploring, she really wants a nose ring, and my job is to show her the proper way to care for her nose to avoid infections,’” Thompson told the eight women listening intently around a table. “My job is to tell her that if you ever want to do anything in the future that involves piercing, let me know and let’s create a plan.”
The scene was the Q House on a recent Thursday evening. Thompson, along with Kaussar Rahman, was leading the penultimate session of a 12-week maternal health program run by the nonprofit Mind Blossom, Inc., which provides mental health education and consulting.
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Mar 7, 2025 3:07 pm
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At NHPS' mental health and first aid training session.
Rather than watch students present mid-year projects, 20 New Haven educators and school staffers stood at the front of the “class” to present their own research to their peers about what to look out for when it comes to student wellbeing and mental health.
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Lisa Reisman |
Dec 2, 2024 11:13 am
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The Resiliency Center team, including interim executive director Judy Barron, co-founder Sergio Rodriguez, director Lorraine Rogers, and educational consultant Andrenna Paolillo.
There’s a wall hanging in the entrance hall of the new Resiliency Center, a reconnection agency on Dixwell Avenue that opened as part of ‘r kids Family Center with a recent ribbon-cutting.
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Lisa Reisman |
Oct 9, 2024 1:08 pm
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Destiny McKenzie and Sharnasia Booker, with their babies, at Mind Blossom session at the Q.
Ashley Brown was having a rough week. The mother of five felt like the world was closing in on her. Then came a call from Chantell Thompson, reminding her of an upcoming session of a new maternal health program run by the nonprofit Mind Blossom each week at the Q House.
“I was tired, but your call made me feel good, it made me want to come,” Brown told Thompson, a facilitator of the program, at the end of a recent 90-minute session.
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Jun 4, 2024 11:30 am
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Dr. Pittenger: "So much of our society can be described as alienation from meaning."
Researchers psyched about bringing psychedelics from the underground to the therapist’s office are confident that drugs like MDMA can help those suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
What they’re less sure about: how such experimental treatments might interact with antidepressants, which are widely taken by many patients who would benefit most from a therapeutic trip.
