Indy Week
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County). Its first issue was published in April 1983. Indy Week is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and has a progressive, liberal political perspective. The Columbia Journalism Review has cited the newspaper for its "spine of steel."[citation needed] The print edition is published on Wednesdays.
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A local nonprofit that provides mental health services to Latino communities will receive nearly half a million dollars in funding over the next two years from Alliance Health, the managed care organization (MCO) that serves uninsured residents and Medicaid recipients in the Triangle. The funding will go toward expanding El Futuro’s Mentes Fuertes, or “Strong Minds,” program, which launched earlier this year. Mentes Fuertes draws inspiration from the promotoras movement in Latin America that sees people who are already trusted and ingrained within a community trained to serve as mental...