Tagged: Mental health

  • December 19, 2022

    Busting burnout: A global health imperative

    Written by
    Kate H. Rademacher, Senior Technical Advisor, FHI 360
    Phyllis Ombonyo, Consultant, FHI 360

    Clinicians. Administrators. Researchers. Procurement specialists. Regulators. Supply chain experts. Community-based workers. Donors. Advocates. Policymakers. These are just some of the roles required to implement effective, evidence-based global health and development initiatives. Yet many professionals are struggling with feelings of overwhelm, disconnection and exhaustion. In the past several years, we have lived and worked through a global pandemic, which exacerbated many pre–existing stressors. In this context, it is critical for us to address the risk of burnout among our staff and partners around the world.

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  • September 10, 2020

    Community schools support students and families during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Written by
    Kari Kraus, FHI 360 Community School Director, Primary School/Middle School 42, Queens
    Jasmin Sowell, FHI 360 Community School Director, Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School, Hempstead

    For the past six years, FHI 360 has worked with community schools in New York City and Hempstead, Long Island. When COVID-19 hit earlier this year, the way we did our work immediately shifted away from focusing on in-person supports for students and families. Our first hurdle was bridging the digital divide, that gap between who has access to technology and the internet— and the skills to use them — and who doesn’t.

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  • July 20, 2020

    Native communities are already resilient. Here’s how we can help them thrive.

    Written by
    Micker Richardson, Director, National American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Collaboration Office, FHI 360

    More than ever, American Indians and Alaska Natives face some of the greatest challenges in the United States. Resources — including food, housing, medical care and family support services — have been inaccessible or nonexistent for years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, those resources have become even scarcer. According to researchers at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, the COVID-19 crisis is “devastating tribes’ abilities to fund their governmental services and forcing tribes to make painful decisions to lay off employees, drop workers’ insurance coverage, deplete assets and/or take on more debt.” At the same time, some Native communities have experienced disproportionately high numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths.

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