MAHA for Mental Health 🧠

[Eamon (MAHA for Mental Health 🧠)]

Fixing Isolation: Accessible Community Programs for Anyone

(Social rehabilitation & Integration; create emotionally stable workforce; Life-Skills Training; Solve Loneliness)

Make Drug Offenders Work instead of Going to Jail

I’ll keep it simple: Instead of sending non-dangerous drug offenders to prison, get them outside in the fresh air working. It will greatly benefit them and the country, and it can lessen the often cited workforce gap cited as a reason for hiring undocumented workers. It can be incentivized in whatever way is most effective, even if that is just the threat of greater punishment, and can be a national program supported by the federal government but optional for individual states. This will free u…

Solve Loneliness

In the UK, a town called Frome innovated by creating an online database of every group in the community across all areas - health, social, specific hobbies, sports, etc. Then recruiting 2% of the local community as designated community connectors (hairdressers, taxi drivers, clinic health coaches, etc) to connect lonely people to the database and find them groups to join. This lead to large reduction in healthcare costs and large scale community cohesion. The downstream benefits are incredibl…

MAHA for Mental Health

On loneliness and therapy: We need to address the loneliness epidemic among younger generations and recognize that therapy cannot be a substitute for relationships. One reason so many young people go to therapy now more than in past generations is they don’t have a supportive social network. Therapists are overwhelmed with new patient requests and many people stay in therapy years beyond what they need due to a lack of outside relationships. This can turn unhealthy. Therapists or psychiatrists …

Reinstate the Civilian Conservation Corps

Use the CCC to rebuild the country’s parks and forests and farmlands to start. Engage 18-25 year old adults to join for the betterment of the country while partnering with private business to teach trades while in the job. Treat service in the CCC the same as honorable military service providing similar benefits to veterans including preferential consideration for government jobs, SBA loans/grants, FHA home loans and interest rates, and as a pathway for political service. While also providing j…

Repurpose of closed military bases

Closed bases should be rehabed and turned into a transitional place for our military personnel. Here they can be housed, given medical attention, counseling, and job training. Many of our soldiers come out of the military with great needs to help them to reenter the communities or adjust to civilian life. It will be a safe place for them and their families to reunite learn how to navigate civilian life. It will be a place for individual soldiers to find new direction or path to sustainable livin…