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26 Aug, 2025

Grandparents’ Lend Their Ears on Friendship Benches

AARP

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06 Jun, 2025

Friendship Bench: How a nonprofit uses grandparents' wisdom to aid in mental wellness

NBC Washington

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23 Apr, 2025

Tackling poverty and mental health in Zimbabwe

Devex

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08 Apr, 2025

‘Friendship benches’ to offer free mental health support in Sussex

The Guardian

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02 Apr, 2025

Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’

BBC

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19 Dec, 2024

How DC Grandparents Are Improving Community Mental Health

Next Avenue

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30 Jun, 2025

From Zimbabwe to New York City, Expanding Quality Mental Health Access – the Friendship Bench with Dr. Dixon Chibanda (272)

Therapist Uncensored

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01 Jun, 2025

Can Communities Heal Intergenerational Trauma?

Psychotherapy Networker

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22 Apr, 2025

Through 'The Friendship Bench,' grandmothers address a mental health crisis

WBUR

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05 Apr, 2025

Here’s How Dr. Dixon Chibanda and 14 Grandmothers Created “The Friendship Bench” and Inspired a Mental Health Revolution

Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper

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21 Feb, 2025

Washington adopts a Zimbabwe innovation: Grannies offering park-bench therapy

The Christian Science Monitor

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15 Sept, 2024

WATCH: This ‘Friendship Bench’ is pulling on the healing power of grandmothers

PBS News

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19 Jun, 2025

New Evaluation Finds Friendship Bench DC Is Breaking Barriers To Mental Health Support And Building Trust

HelpAge USA

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10 May, 2025

Good news for Mental Health Awareness Month: Please meet Dr. Dixon Chibanda and his ‘Friendship Bench’

Read The Spirit

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15 Apr, 2025

Friendship Bench – For the first time in Germany

Friedensau Adventist University

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03 Apr, 2025

From Zimbabwe to the World: the next generation of African mental health research leaders

King’s College London

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08 Feb, 2025

The Friendship Bench: Bringing talk therapy into underserved communities

CBS News

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