Mental Health

Ribbon Cut On 'r kids Resiliency Center

by | Dec 2, 2024 11:13 am | Comments (2)

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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. 

It’s headed: How to Really Love a Child.” 

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New Moms Find Community At The Q

by | Oct 9, 2024 1:08 pm | Comments (0)

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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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Yale Panel Welcomes “Psychedelic Renaissance”

by | Jun 4, 2024 11:30 am | Comments (0)

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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.

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