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  • How to help someone struggling with mental illness

    June 07, 2021 |

    Popular Science |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Mental Health First Aid course teaches people who are not mental health professionals to respond to people in crisis based on understanding rather than fear. Millions of people have taken the course in 24 countries since its introduction two decades ago. It has been shown to give trainees greater confidence in their ability to provide help, but its effects on the people receiving the care is less clear. The training can be particularly useful to healthcare and law enforcement workers who are more likely to encounter such scenarios.

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  • San Francisco's new homeless street teams make progress, garner praise

    June 04, 2021 |

    San Francisco Examiner |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco's Street Crisis Response Team is a pilot project meant to divert 911 calls for mental health emergencies from police to new teams of mobile counselors. Though it started with only one team and later expanded to four, the project in less than six months took 20% of the eligible calls. More than half the clients were helped on the streets, while most others were hospitalized or connected with shelters. The city is proposing a major expansion of this and related teams aimed at reducing the reliance on police in non-violent situations.

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  • Mobile crisis response program draws national attention but still struggles with funding

    June 02, 2021 |

    Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

    Radio Talk Show |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    The CAHOOTS program's national popularity as a model for diverting crisis calls from the police to unarmed teams of a medic and counselor belies its inability to fully serve its own community because of under-funding. Program director Ebony Morgan talks about the flip side of the program's cost savings for the city: unfairly low pay for its workers, long response times, and an inability to expand. The program's success with the community is built on trust that people in crisis will be helped rather than viewed as a threat. Morgan says the program itself needs to be valued more by city budget managers.

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  • Enlisting Mental Health Workers, Not Cops, In Mobile Crisis Response

    June 01, 2021 |

    Health Affairs |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    The long-running CAHOOTS program, which replaces police with medics and social workers to respond to non-violent, non-criminal mental health crises, suicide threats, and problems stemming from homelessness, serves as a model for similar programs in the nationwide push to reimagine policing. CAHOOTS teams de-escalate crises at first simply because they are not armed police. They also take the time and have the training to calm situations and get people the help they need. Programs in Phoenix and Denver demonstrate how the idea plays out in larger cities.

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  • Early Cure Violence statistics promising, city health official says

    May 26, 2021 |

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    In the parts of two neighborhoods where the violence-intervention program Cure Violence has been active since June 2020, and a third where it has been operating since January, more than 300 potentially violent incidents were averted through the work of Cure Violence's "violence interrupters." The interrupters mediate disputes and then help people get the social services they might need to stabilize their lives. Homicides, assaults, and robberies are down in those neighborhoods while up citywide so far in 2021. The city agreed to spend $7 million to launch the program, which some hope to expand.

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  • How well is Cure Violence working in St. Louis?

    May 26, 2021 |

    KSDK-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    While homicides in St. Louis in the first part of 2021 increased over already-high numbers in recent years, three neighborhoods served by a new Cure Violence program showed significant decreases in homicides, assaults, and robberies. Cure Violence, a national program, puts "violence interrupters" on the streets to intervene before arguments turn deadly and to provide people with services they need. In one neighborhood, Dutchtown, interrupters say they prevented 87 incidents in less than seven months. The city now is trying to find the money to expand the program to more areas of the city.

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  • Worker cooperatives prove your job doesn't have to be hell

    May 26, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    In service industries that traditionally pay and treat workers poorly, worker-owned cooperatives serve as a humane alternative. Worker-owners at eight co-ops in four states describe the difference their jobs make in their working conditions and their lives. They also tell how larger collectives and cooperatives pool resources to help smaller co-ops with the funding and expertise they need, especially when confronted by a disruptive event like the pandemic.

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  • Reimagining a Better World After George Floyd's Death

    May 24, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Two ways that communities affected by police violence and racial injustice responded to the uprising after George Floyd's murder were block-by-block organizing and participatory budgeting. The first, used in Minneapolis, provided public safety and mutual aid when neighbors formed networks to guard buildings, put out fires, mediate disputes, and deliver aid to people living through a period of unrest. In participatory budgeting, 30 cities turned over control of $400 million in public spending to communities, which set policy based on communal decisions and directed financial priorities.

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  • In San Francisco, Help Hits the Streets with a Crisis Response Team

    May 21, 2021 |

    What's Next Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Six San Francisco neighborhoods are now served by the city's Street Crisis Response Teams, which answer 911 calls for non-violent mental or behavioral health crises without police involvement. In its first two months in one neighborhood, the Tenderloin, the team handled 199 calls without any violent incidents or any need for police intervention. That led to the expansion to five more neighborhoods. The program is modeled on Eugene, Oregon's CAHOOTS project's street medics and counselors, but with an additional "peer specialist," someone with lived experience to counsel unhoused people on the streets.

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  • Philly mothers of gun violence victims work to solve their children's murders

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia police fail to solve most of the city's growing number of homicides, in part because of the no-snitching street code, a byproduct of the community's lack of trust in police. But the streets do sometimes talk when the mothers of murder victims do their own detective work. A number of cases were solved because mothers turned their grief into a resolve to hunt down evidence that they turned over to the police. Their work grows out of the many support groups they have formed to help each other, and from a YouTube channel that helps them draw attention to unsolved murders.

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