{"id":813,"date":"2016-04-28T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/?p=813"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:53:01","slug":"worcester-community-mental-health-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/2016\/04\/28\/worcester-community-mental-health-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester community mental health assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Worcester community mental health assessment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Cardemil, Esteban; Torres, Rosalie Stone and Keefe, Kristen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Worcester Division of Public Health<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:&nbsp;<\/strong> This assessment report provides a community-based overview of Worcester residents\u2019 challenges, coping strategies and barriers to addressing their mental health needs.&nbsp; Among the challenges identified are economic stress, exposure to violence and trauma, substance use, medical comorbidity, non-Western mental health conceptions and stigma. The report found that mental health stigma was particularly pronounced in immigrant and refugee populations. This study concludes with recommendations to better address the mental health needs of the Worcester community. This project was part of the Worcester Division of Public Health\u2019s ongoing Community Health Improvement plan (CHIP).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umassmed.edu\/globalassets\/systems-and-psychosocial-advances-research-center\/publications\/books\/community-mental-health-assessment.pdf\">https:\/\/www.umassmed.edu\/globalassets\/systems-and-psychosocial-advances-research-center\/publications\/books\/community-mental-health-assessment.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> mental health, public health, health assessment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cataloged By:<\/strong>&nbsp;Selina Sikder \/ B.J. Perkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Worcester community mental health assessment Author: Cardemil, Esteban; Torres, Rosalie Stone and Keefe, Kristen Publisher: Worcester Division of Public Health Date: 2013 Description:&nbsp; This assessment report provides a community-based overview of Worcester residents\u2019 challenges, coping strategies and barriers to addressing their mental health needs.&nbsp; Among the challenges identified are \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/2016\/04\/28\/worcester-community-mental-health-assessment\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30314,33308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-refugees-in-worcester","category-reports-nonprofits-government-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}