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Less than two weeks after U.S. voters decided to bring former President Donald Trump back to the White House, almost 200 people trekked to Chicago’s South Side for a convening on a critical topic: the mental health of immigrant communities in the new Trump era. The is story is part three in a collaboration between the Chicago bureau of MindSite News and palabra, a multimedia platform from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. It is made possible with funding from the Field Foundation of Illinois and the Reva and David Logan Foundation.

Losing a child is one of the most painful events a parent can endure, but services often focus on mothers – and fathers tend to grieve in isolation. These men formed a DIY grief group for dads. This article was reported and first published by Harvard Public Health magazine.

ADHD saturates the American prison system. While only 4.4% percent of the general public has ADHD, as many as half of adult prisoners and two-thirds of children in juvenile facilities have the condition. Yet no state in the country prioritizes ADHD treatment in its prisons. https://buff.ly/3ZkYEov

“I blame Zimbardo for doing that experiment on me. It was a horrible job and Zimbardo was the perpetrator. I was a victim." - Doug Korpi, a “prisoner” in the Stanford Prison Experiment Just how accurate were the disturbing conclusions of the original Stanford Prison Experiment? We talked to the director of a new documentary series and a participant in the original study. ??

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This story is part of Silent Battles our reporting project with that focuses on the mental health of immigrant, refugee and asylum communities in the U.S. We begin in Chicago, a city founded by a Haitian immigrant that has the fourth-largest immigrant population in the country.

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Grief needs a witness. Telling the story of what happened after the loss of a child is crucial to eventual acceptance and to the ability to live with the absence of the person, says Katherine Shear, the founding director of the Center for Prolonged Grief at the Columbia University School of Social Work. But for generations of American men, grief – with its stew of sadness, yearning and powerlessness – was something to bury, to mask with stoicism, or to avoid with work, even if it came at great cost to mental health. https://buff.ly/4eIsjfQ This article was reported and first published by Harvard Public Health magazine.

"The answer to anything like the model minority myth is not abundance, it’s actually enoughness. You are enough. You deserve food, shelter, water, love, dignity based on your enoughness because you’re human, not because of the things that you do and the ways that you are." - Hyeseung Song Read writer Melissa Hung's interview with artist Hyeseung Song about her recent memoir Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl on mental health.