Mental health care that disrupts cycles of violence | Celina de Sola

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In Latin American countries like El Salvador, where local changemaker Celina de Sola lives, homicide rates are alarmingly high due to a vicious cycle of violence where people don't have an opportunity to heal from individual and collective trauma. With her team at Glasswing International, de Sola is hoping to break this cycle by equipping government employees like teachers and police officers with the skills and knowledge they need to provide mental health care to those who need it most. Their goal: to transform more than 2,000 frontline institutions in 25 of the highest-risk municipalities in Central America with community-based approaches to mental health support, reaching nearly 10 million people along the way. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:07.9	Local changemaker Selena DeSola has taken on a giant task, serving the mental health needs of
0:13.4	entire communities and places where adequate care for our inner lives is lacking.
0:19.0	In her talk from TED 2020,
0:23.9	she shares how she's creating a new kind of frontline worker from within the communities that need them.
0:26.8	This is part of the Audacious Project,
0:28.7	a collaborative funding platform
0:30.1	to support groundbreaking ideas across the world,
0:32.8	which this year raised $900 million.
0:36.0	We're sharing this year's winners here on TED Talks Daily all week.
0:41.7	There's a shocking statistic I want to share with you.
0:46.3	Latin America is home to only 8% of the world's population, but one-third of its homicides.
0:56.5	This is especially extreme in the Northern Triangle countries
1:00.1	of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador,
1:04.4	where I'm from and where I live.
1:07.5	Just imagine the impact that this kind of unrelenting violence can have
1:11.3	on a person's health, productivity and well-being,
1:17.6	especially because we know that if we're exposed to violence,
1:21.9	this can result in trauma.
1:24.4	And when that happens,
1:26.2	our brain's stress response actually shuts down core functions,
1:29.9	like problem-solving, critical thinking, and emotional regulation,
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