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Jim Dehner is the new executive director of the Orange County Land Trust
Mountainville. Dehner was most recently the executive director of the Indiana Land Protection Alliance, a collaboration of 24 land trusts throughout the state. | 25 May 2021 | 10:36 Jim Dehner is the new executive of the Orange County Land Trust, an organization that has permanently protected almost 6,500 acres since its establishment 28 years ago. Photo by Kyle Sanduski.
The Orange County Land Trust had selected as its new executive director a veteran of more than 20 years of experience in land conservation and an expertise in the management of nonprofits.
Jim Dehner started his career as a land stewardship intern while in college. Most recently, he was the executive director of the Indiana Land Protection Alliance, a collaboration of 24 land trusts throughout the state.
The Surprising Mental Health Benefits of Volunteering
A program in Connecticut offers psychotherapy in exchange for voluntary service in the community. But the act of volunteering itself can have mental health benefits of its own.
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Empowerment, agency, and control. Impact, self-esteem, and social connections. A sense of meaning, a sense of purpose, a sense of contributing and with all that, a feeling of reward.
All are elements in the psychological impact of volunteering.
And all are critical pieces of Volunteers in Psychotherapy, a West Hartford, Connecticut, program that offers pure talk-therapy sessions in exchange for voluntary service in the community. The longstanding, forward-pushing nonprofit was designed as a corrective to the usual medicalized approach to mental healthcare, which too often strips the autonomy of patients and too often prioritizes pharmaceuticals over in-depth therapy. Many people can’t afford mental healthcare out of pocket; when it is covered by
Thomas Webler
Thomas Webler is a founding member and senior researcher at the Social and Environmental Research Institute (SERI). He is also an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Keene State College, New Hampshire. He served on the Nuclear Energy Agency’s Forum for Stakeholder Confidence from 2002 to 2008. From 2013 to 2016 he worked to help the Department of Energy develop a process to develop a consent-based siting process. His research specializes in bringing local and expert knowledge together in collaborative ways to find solutions to problems of environmental management and technological risk.
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