RCRC Toolbox Issue Brief: Mental Health and Well-Being: Executive Summary

• 2021

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Despite an increased need for mental health and psychosocial support services across the country, the funding available for mental support services and mental health treatment has decreased. New Hanover County, North Carolina, has taken an innovative approach to address these gaps within their community by fostering resiliency through trauma-informed community care across through a multi-sector effort. Similar whole-community approaches for trauma-informed child welfare programs should be promoted alongside calls for increased funding for government programs.

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Hazard: Trauma

Audiences: Nurses; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Child Welfare; Community Health Services; Mental Health; Psychosocial Support Systems; Resilience, Psychological

Institutions: Columbia Climate School National Center for Disaster Preparedness

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