Holina Global has announced the launch of Holina Village in Cyprus, a rehabilitation center for teens, adolescents, and young adults aged 15-24. The center specializes in emotional and behavioral health, addiction or dependency challenges, and trauma recovery. It offers a holistic treatment approach that addresses the physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological needs of each resident. The facility is designed to help young individuals struggling with substance abuse, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other behavioral health challenges.

Holina Village integrates traditional therapies, adventure challenges, and farm life within a therapeutic community environment to foster self-discovery, personal growth, and healing. The therapeutic community model encourages peer support and shared responsibility, allowing residents to collaborate in a safe, supportive setting. Activities promote community building, emotional growth, and self-reliance, such as caring for animals and tending to the orchard.

The facility operates on a functioning farm with livestock and a fruit-bearing orchard, offering residents the responsibility of caring for animals and maintaining the environment. This fosters camaraderie, collaboration, and contribution, while providing opportunities to connect with nature. These experiences promote personal responsibility and community connection.

Holina Village offers English-speaking services for residents from Europe and other English-speaking countries. It provides personalized treatment in a culturally sensitive environment, ensuring language is not a barrier to receiving care and support.

The programs include a therapeutic community approach, counseling and coaching, adventure-based therapy, and academic & vocational training. Holina Village aims to help young people overcome addiction, behavioral health struggles, and trauma, empowering them to create a brighter future.

In other news, a Curtin University-led research project in Australia has received $5 million in funding from the Federal Government's Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF). The project aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of adults released from prisons. Led by Professor Stuart Kinner, the project involves a national consortium of service providers and people with lived experience of incarceration to co-design, evaluate, and implement a model of transitional care.

The model will be informed by evidence and evaluated in a randomised controlled trial over five years in Queensland, Australia. The project aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the almost 70,000 adults, including over 26,000 Indigenous people, released from Australian prisons each year.

Australia's prison population is growing, with over 67,000 people incarcerated annually. The project will work with partners nationally to co-design a culturally safe, age and gender responsive model of transitional care, and evaluate it in real-world settings, adapting it for potential national implementation.

Australian taxpayers spend over $6 billion on corrective services each year, despite evidence that prisons may increase the risk of offending and lead to poor health outcomes. People who experience incarceration have high rates of complex health problems, self-harm, drug use, overdose, and low rates of contact with mental healthcare providers after release. Improving the health of people who experience incarceration can save taxpayer money, improve public health, reduce reoffending, and help to Close the Gap in Indigenous disadvantage.

There is a national commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of all Indigenous Australians, including those who experience incarceration, with a target to reduce the Indigenous incarceration rate by at least 15 per cent by 2031. Improved transitional care for Indigenous people returning from prison to the community is required to achieve these targets.