{"id":186365,"date":"2026-03-10T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186365\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:35:19","slug":"local-nonprofits-announce-partnership-to-address-mental-health-concerns-in-fort-lauderdale-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186365\/","title":{"rendered":"Local nonprofits announce partnership to address mental health concerns in Fort Lauderdale &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Two nonprofit organizations are teaming up to address rising mental health concerns in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Big Brothers, Big Sisters and Henderson Behavioral Health announced their new partnership in Fort Lauderdale, Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The organizations pledged to provide youths, mentors, families and staff members with wellness counseling sessions, trainings and workshops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the impact we\u2019re gonna make by taking care of their littles and big relative to whatever mental needs they have and whatever wellness we can create and support them with is just thrilling. We know collectively it\u2019s gonna make a big difference,\u201d said Dr. Steven Ronik, the CEO for Henderson Behavioral Health.<\/p>\n<p>The organizations said the new program will help families and staff recognize and effectively address early warning signs of distress at home.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Two nonprofit organizations are teaming up to address rising mental health concerns in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-186365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}