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What does science say about the value of peer support?
http://bit.ly/2kON8RP Much evidence supports that peer support is a critical and effective strategy for ongoing health care and sustained behavior change for people with chronic diseases and other conditions, and its benefits can be extended to community, organizational and societal levels. Overall, studies have found that social support: decreases morbidity and mortality rates increases life…
Foundation North
Foundation North has offered Better Blokes support for a number of years and we are very appreciative of their help. Foundation North holds in trust for the Auckland and Northland communities an endowment, or putea, of over a billion dollars. This comes from the sale of the community’s shares in what was previously the Auckland…
#Political #Power #Sexual #Abuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Capill On 23 March 2005 Capill appeared in the Christchurch District Court charged with indecently assaulting a girl aged under 12. On leaving the court he was assaulted (“punched and left whimpering on the ground”) by local sickness beneficiary Daniel McNally, a former boxer.[3] The media referred to Capill, who was then under a name-suppression…
#Significant #Under-staffing #Mental #Health
FIRST: New figures from DHBs reveal significant under-staffing in mental health pic.twitter.com/ZWwmLhz5ys — RNZ – Nine To Noon (@ninetonoon) July 2, 2017
UNICEF: sexual abuse shrouded in shame, secrecy and mores of masculinity
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/society-shames-male-survivors-of-abuse-into-anguish/story-Fr3CcWkr7O2oE5njn0NH8M.html For the seven-year-old, it all began at a wedding. Relatives and family friends were streaming into the house for a week and no one had a moment to spare. It was then that he started developing intimacy with an older cousin, who was 16. Now an adult, he remembers the agony and urgency to…