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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” Such considerations can be symbiotic, benefitting both the environment and individuals’ psychological wellbeing.

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How the Climate Crisis is Changing Mental Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, foregrounds the experiences of communities of color in the environmental justice movement. Organizations like Force of Nature and the Climate Psychology Alliance facilitate climate cafes—spaces that involve sharing eco-anxiety with others under the guidance of trained professionals.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We found that in Brazil, social entrepreneurs from poor communities differ significantly from those from higher social classes, especially in terms of their access to financial, human, psychological, and social capital. Let us look at these types of capital one by one.

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Healing the Frontlines of Racial, Climate, and Gender Injustice

NonProfit Quarterly

This led the Hive Fund to create the Healing Justice and Holistic Security grantmaking program—aimed at providing BIPOC women leaders and their communities with tools and practices needed to heal and combat threats to digital, physical, and psychological safety. In 2020, the JPB Foundation granted the Hive Fund $3 million.

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Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Many others are feeling distress as they process the realities of widespread environmental and biodiversity loss. Yet, all individuals in social impact face a similar challenge, whether addressing things like housing, health care, or poverty. as well as slow-onset events (e.g., sea-level rise, melting of ice, etc.)

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

percent of the population, China has enacted more than 60 laws and regulations aimed at safeguarding the rights of individuals with disabilities, encompassing those with visual, auditory, linguistic, physical, intellectual, psychological, and multiple disabilities. With 85 million people with disabilities, or 6.5

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. AT: You invented a great word, “insecuritized.”