Rural Project Examples: Stigma
Effective Examples
Parent Partners
Added March 2022
Added March 2022
- Need: To support parents whose children have been removed from the home so that the parents can make the changes needed for the children to return safely home.
- Intervention: A statewide program in Iowa pairs these parents with mentors who have successfully navigated their own child welfare cases.
- Results: Participants' children were more likely to return home than non-participants' children and participants were less likely to have another child removal within a year of the child coming home.
Other Project Examples
The Coffee Break Project
Added July 2022
Added July 2022
- Need: Men in the agriculture industry face high suicide rates due to factors including long hours, geographic isolation, lack of social opportunities, and stigma surrounding mental health care.
- Intervention: The Coffee Break Project, a program led by the Southeast Health Group in southeastern Colorado, encourages mental health check-ins for farmers and ranchers through a public awareness campaign and casual coffee gatherings that utilize COMET, an intervention model developed specifically for rural communities.
- Results: Between eight and 20 people typically attend each coffee gathering.
Rapid HCV Testing as an HIV Testing Strategy in Rural Areas
Updated/reviewed November 2021
Updated/reviewed November 2021
- Need: To provide HIV testing in rural areas while navigating around HIV stigma.
- Intervention: A pilot study to provide HCV (Hepatitis C Virus) rapid tests and then offer an HIV rapid test as well.
- Results: An increase in the number of people tested for HCV and HIV.