• January 2020

    The Making Connections Hub

    UWEAST and its partner organizations work to prevent suicide. They have opened up a dialogue about mental health with community members; encouraged faith leaders to speak out about post-traumatic...
  • January 2020

    Empowering American Indian Boys to a Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit

    Through Making Connections the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board staff are making suicide prevention among American Indian youth a priority. The project empowers students in Anadarko and the...
  • January 2020

    Legends of Lawndale

    MC Team Lead Becca Krauss is a psychotherapist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Advancing mental health requires clinical expertise and recognition that wellbeing happens at a community level. When violent...
  • September 2016

    Building on Community Strengths in South Carolina

    Considering the needs of communities, and involving those communities in both the services and the community-wide solutions that meet those needs,  informs HopeHealth's efforts in promoting men’s and...

Growing Resilience Among Past, Present, and Future Military Members in Rural Connecticut

For Veterans Day, Resilience Grows Here (RGH), which is dedicated to fostering the health and resilience of veterans across 10 towns in Farmington Valley, Connecticut, organized a belated welcome...

Uplifting the Voices of Youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico

In a conversation with Prevention Institute, Francisco Chavez, project lead for Making Connections’ New Mexico coalition, reflected on the coalition’s work to date, including efforts to ensure...

Addressing gang culture and violence in Los Angeles

The Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles (VPC) is one of 16 community partnerships across the U.S. selected to participate in Making Connections for Mental Wellbeing Among Men and...

Elevating community wellbeing for East African men and boys in San Diego

The United Women of East Africa, an organization originally created to serve refugee mothers and their children in San Diego, reached out to other groups in their close-knit community and forged a...

Reducing mental health disparities experienced by American Indian males

As one of  Movember’s Making Connections sites, the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board  in Oklahoma has built a coalition committed to reducing mental health disparities experienced by American...