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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Local Non-Profit Raises Funds for Veterans with Memorial Day Weekend Workout
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — This Memorial Day weekend, a local non-profit took action to honor fallen veterans while raising much-needed funds to support those still living with the challenges of reintegrating into civilian life. The Resilience Project, a group dedicated to helping veterans transition back to everyday life, held its 2nd Annual Memorial Day Murph Workout on Saturday at the House Barbell Club in Peoria. The event saw dozens of participants come together to take on the grueling workout, which includes a one-mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 body weight squats and another mile run. This physically demanding challenge was designed to both honor and remember the sacrifice of fallen Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, who lost his life during a combat mission in Afghanistan. Ben Deige, Marketing Director of the Resilience Project, shared why this event is so important. '22 veterans a day commit suicide in the United States,' Deige said. 'We believe that's unacceptable. So we're doing our part to help lower that number and ultimately get it to zero here in the Peoria area.' This year's event raised over $6,000, which will go directly into the Resilience Project, helping fund their programs that support Peoria-area veterans. This includes mental health resources, physical fitness support, and other essential services designed to ease the transition back to civilian life. By combining fitness and fundraising, the event highlighted the resilience of both the veterans it serves and the community that supports them. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Medal of Honor hero Lt. Murphy inspires Murph Challenge
PEORIA Ill. (WMBD) — The Resilience Project undertakes the Murph Challenge to honor the legacy of a U.S. sailor and all veterans on Memorial Day weekend. It's the annual Lt. Michael Murphy challenge, named for the Navy SEAL who died in 2005 while in Afghanistan and in the process earned the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor. The Resilience Project was created by combat veterans with a goal to help other vets transition back into civilian life. 'Twenty-two veterans commit suicide a day, our goal is to reduce that in the Peoria area, down to zero,' said Dr. Ben Deig of Peoria Spine and Sport and also a veteran The group offers educational resources, some financial assistance, and a variety of physical and mental health services, and on Memorial Day weekend, the Murph Challenge as a way of fueling the help that the RP provides. The workout consists of a mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats and another mile run. And you do all that while wearing 20 additional pounds of weight. The weight is akin to how Murphy used to wear body armor while undertaking his workout. Registration for the challenge ranges from $35 – $60. Added Deig: 'Not gonna lie, it's a tough workout' but also reminded that one doesn't need to do the challenge to donate, 'come out, hang out with us. It's more community engagement and building than it is to suffer through the workout.' The Murph Challenge begins at 10 a.m., May 24, at House Barbell Club, 7920 N. Sommer St., Peoria. Murphy was killed in late June 2005 during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan. His four-man SEAL team was hunting a Taliban leader in Kunar province. Insurgents found his and his team's position and a furious firefight erupted. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his courage when he abandoned cover in an effort to call for backup. The firefight and the battle were featured in the movie 'Lone Survivor.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Age
17-05-2025
- Health
- The Age
These schools wanted to give students hope. A landmark study shows they're on the right track
There are effective tools to improve young people's mental health, a new landmark study has found, but only with teachers, parents and school communities in it for the long haul. An academic analysis of the Resilience Project's schools program, Australia's largest and one of its longest-running education mental health initiatives, has found clear benefits to the mental health and wellbeing of its young participants. But the Monash University study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, also found it can take up to six years of immersion in the project's mix of gratitude, empathy, emotional literacy and mindfulness lessons for the full benefits to emerge. Researcher Roshini Balasooriya, who is also a psychiatric registrar, told The Age there was no shortage of programs designed to tackle the mental health crisis confronting schools, but the evidence base of their efficacy was thin. But by evaluating the results of the Resilience Project on more than 40,000 Australian high school students at 100 schools around the nation, Balasooriya's peer-reviewed study was able to shed more light on the efficacy of the program, which has been running since 2013 and is now implemented in 1150 schools. She found students who took part in the Resilience Project for four to five years showed lower levels of depression than the study's control group. By the time they got to their sixth year of the project, participants were reporting higher levels of life satisfaction and hope, displaying better coping skills, and showing a lot less anxiety and depression than their control group peers. But students in the program for two to three years 'demonstrated no significant difference in outcomes compared with the control group'. 'When we looked at the schools that had invested for six years or longer, there were benefits across all five outcomes that we assessed,' Balasooriya said.
Sydney Morning Herald
17-05-2025
- Health
- Sydney Morning Herald
These schools wanted to give students hope. A landmark study shows they're on the right track
There are effective tools to improve young people's mental health, a new landmark study has found, but only with teachers, parents and school communities in it for the long haul. An academic analysis of the Resilience Project's schools program, Australia's largest and one of its longest-running education mental health initiatives, has found clear benefits to the mental health and wellbeing of its young participants. But the Monash University study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, also found it can take up to six years of immersion in the project's mix of gratitude, empathy, emotional literacy and mindfulness lessons for the full benefits to emerge. Researcher Roshini Balasooriya, who is also a psychiatric registrar, told The Age there was no shortage of programs designed to tackle the mental health crisis confronting schools, but the evidence base of their efficacy was thin. But by evaluating the results of the Resilience Project on more than 40,000 Australian high school students at 100 schools around the nation, Balasooriya's peer-reviewed study was able to shed more light on the efficacy of the program, which has been running since 2013 and is now implemented in 1150 schools. She found students who took part in the Resilience Project for four to five years showed lower levels of depression than the study's control group. By the time they got to their sixth year of the project, participants were reporting higher levels of life satisfaction and hope, displaying better coping skills, and showing a lot less anxiety and depression than their control group peers. But students in the program for two to three years 'demonstrated no significant difference in outcomes compared with the control group'. 'When we looked at the schools that had invested for six years or longer, there were benefits across all five outcomes that we assessed,' Balasooriya said.
