Community-Driven – Collective For Health Equity

The Broken Crayons..Still Color Project

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The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project (BCSCP) is a prevention program, which aims to limit and reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. The program is designed to assist African-American women ages 18 and older to become more knowledgeable about mental illness, reduce stigma, understand what constitutes good mental health, root causes of mental illness, and strategies for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It addresses the Phase 1 priority population strategy: providing insight into mental health topics among African-American women in selected faith-based churches.

Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity

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The Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity (TRIBE) Program is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent or intervene in the early onset of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) for foster and adjudicated AA male youth. The CDEP does this by increasing resiliency through skills building, identity development, peer support and mentoring, opening the aperture to higher education, and widening the access to mental health services. Utilizing an ecological approach and brain-based learning, the TRIBE CDEP is designed to address Phase 1 priority population strategy of building on community strengths and demonstrably improving the quality of mental health services by providing services that are culturally congruent, sensitive and competent. The program outcome measures will be, decrease the risks for skid row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, anxiety, and reactivity. Additionally, the CDEP anticipates increases in adaptability, self-efficacy, and social connectivity.

Positive Action

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A school- and community-based evidence-based program that promotes positive behavior, social-emotional learning, and academic achievement

Communities That Care

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An evidence-based prevention framework that helps communities identify priorities and implement programs to improve youth outcomes

Family Spirit

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A culturally tailored, home-visiting intervention developed in partnership with Native communities that supports maternal and child health through pregnancy and early childhood.

Hawai’i People’s Fund

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“Hawai’i People’s Fund supports grassroots community groups working for social justice in Hawai’i. These groups are often considered too small, too new, or controversial by traditional funding organizations. We are dedicated to the most creative, passionate, and radical visions of community.”

Partnerships Supporting Parent/Caregiver Mental Health & Well-being

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Supports partnerships led by trusted community-based organizations that strengthen, connect, and align existing mental health and well-being services and supports for parents and caregivers of young children, prenatal through age five. Up to five partnerships will receive as much as $450,000 over three years, along with learning and evaluation technical assistance.

Moving from Crisis Toward Opportunity: Framing Social Media and Youth Mental Health

By wp-admin February 20, 2026 Leave a comment

This playbook provides practical, research-based guidance for shifting the conversation about social media and adolescent mental health (for the purposes of this guide, adolescence refers to around age 10 to age 25). It draws on FrameWorks’ in-depth and ongoing framing research on how advocates, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can move away from unproductive crisis narratives and instead use framing strategies that highlight opportunity, agency, and collective responsibility. It also offers specific guidance for speaking to parents in ways that avoid blame and shame and instead emphasize their expertise and partnership with practitioners.