Many more people with depression and other mental health issues will be able to get help from the Friendship Bench program thanks to a $2 million unrestricted funding from the philanthropist MacKenzie ...

Anyone who wants to install a memorial bench at the Oceanside Harbor to honor a deceased loved one may soon get that chance. Harbor officials plan to resume a program that started about 25 years ago ...

Toronto / Harare - Their offices are simple wooden seats, called Friendship Benches, located in the grounds of health clinics around Harare and other major cities in Zimbabwe. The practitioners are ...

Brief psychological treatment delivered by Zimbabwean lay health workers dramatically improved the symptoms of patients with mental health problems, according to new research. Their offices are simple ...

During winter 2021, South Side labor organizer Anthony Driver was excited to be a part of Black Bench Chicago’s first cohort. As the Service Employees International Union Healthcare’s political and ...

Sitting in a hospital bed last June recovering from a gunshot wound, Nathan Luvice knew who he had to call. Over a year earlier, Will Kiefer had visited Phoenix Academy, where Luvice was a student, to ...

Bench Mark Program, a city-based mentoring program for at-risk youth, recently received the “Community-Based Program of the Year Award” from two juvenile justice organizations for its work within the ...

ONE OF THE things Rene Klein promised to do when she visited New York was to go to Bryant Park and photograph benches there dedicated to a private eye, Matthew Scudder, and a burglar, Bernie ...

To build total-body brute strength, you need to commit to the big three: squat, bench, and deadlift. Strength isn't a goal as much as it is a habit. Practice it regularly and it will come naturally.