The non-profit’s multi-lingual therapists assist clients—including low-income youth, children, families and the unhoused—at local schools, senior centers, community centers, libraries and other non-traditional locations as the organization strives to create a world where education and awareness about mental health takes precedence over the stigma attached to it.
And it’s working.
Rose, who is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, listed the following examples of Renewing Hope’s typical patient successes in overcoming life’s obstacles:
- Multiple hospitalizations decreased or non-existent
- Full-time employment secured
- Medications reduced from eight to two or less
LESSON IN COLLABORATION
Through it all, Rose and her team at Renewing Hope discovered a key factor to ensure positive, lasting results: community partners.
“Being able to have the partnership with IEHP and bring on so many other services and being able to bridge that gap has just been amazing,” she said. “The biggest thing we’ve learned is collaboration.”
Establishing working relationships with school districts, pediatricians, therapy centers, caregivers in speech therapy and occupational therapy, and more.
“I can’t thank IEHP enough for the partnerships,” Rose said. “Everything that we do and every idea that I go to them with, they’re always with me to support.”
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