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  • Houston's solution to mental health system problems offers a case study for Milwaukee

    June 08, 2013 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    In Houston, TX, many individuals with mental illnesses cycled in and out of emergency care while arrested or incarcerated. Houston’s police department has decreased the number of incarcerated who have mental illness by opening a division to mental health called the Chronic Consumer Stabilization Unit. Now Milwaukee seeks to replicate Houston’s results.

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  • Blocking the Transmission of Violence

    May 04, 2008 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In the earliest days of what has become the Cure Violence model of violence prevention using street-outreach mediators, the Chicago CeaseFire group began hiring former gang members and people recently released from prison because of their credibility on the street. They "interrupt" violence, mediating conflicts to prevent escalation to gunfire, based on a public-health rationale that sees the spread of violence in epidemiological terms. The organization overcame skepticism when an early study showed its methods reduced violence by 16-27% more than in neighborhoods it hadn't worked in.

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