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Organizer describes 'Buck the Trend' model: small, community-led rural mental-health summit
Summary
Maddie Butcher told the Agriculture Behavioral Health Working Group about Buck the Trend, a two-day, place-based forum for ranchers and horse workers she ran in southwest Colorado that prioritized listening, cultural tailoring and small-group follow-up.
Dolores, Colo. — Maddie Butcher, who organized a two-day forum called Buck the Trend, described a small, community-driven approach to rural behavioral-health outreach at the Agriculture Behavioral Health Working Group meeting.
Butcher said she tailored the event to local culture, emphasized listening to residents and invited health professionals to learn local working conditions so they could serve residents better. "They realized ... most health professionals don't…
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