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Nebraska prisons playing major role in mental health care

JoAnne Young

June 20, 2018 |

Lincoln Journal Star |

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Response Location: United States, Nebraska

Nebraska prisons house many of the state's mentally ill, and they are working on comprehensive care for them. Prisons work to improve outcomes and reduce recidivism through mentorship programs. The Mental Health Association runs programs in Nebraska prisons and trains peer supporters on the inside.

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Prescribing Opioids: How Many Are Too Many?

Julie Appleby

June 19, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Doctors at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School are striving to establish new guidelines that are specific to surgical procedure and patient circumstance for prescribing opioids. The general consensus is this: every patient's needs must be assessed individually, alternatives to opiates should always be considered first, and no patients with acute pain should ever be sent home with more than a few days' worth of opiates.

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Shots Not Fired: A new Oregon law takes guns from people who may do harm

Gordon Friedman

June 17, 2018 |

Oregon Live |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Four months after a law in Oregon took effect that allows removal of guns from people who could present a danger to themselves or others, residents used the law to seek the temporary removal of guns from about 30 people and judges granted 24 of those petitions. The strategy appears to be a promising way to stop would-be shooters. Such laws have proven effective in other states in stopping suicides and in Oregon at least four people who had their guns taken had threatened public shootings.

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A Worldwide Teaching Program to Stop Rape

Tina Rosenberg

June 12, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

A program that trains girls and young women how to defend themselves against rape has proven highly effective in Kenya and is spreading to other countries, including Canada and the U.S. No Means No Worldwide trains girls how to identify risk and escape, and also to stand up for themselves verbally and physically, countering the socialization they get to be accommodating and nice. It also trains boys to respect girls and to intervene when girls or women are in danger and participants were able to stop assaults most of the time.

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Beyond Books: How Libraries Are the Latest Front in the Opioid Fight

J. Brian Charles

June 12, 2018 |

Governing |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Librarians across the nation are being trained to administer naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose. In Denver’s Central Library, 350 staff members were trained to administer the drug. “Libraries in New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Salt Lake County, Utah, among others, are also stocking the overdose reversal drug.”

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Training pivotal as cuts to mental-health services take hold

Adrian Horton

June 10, 2018 |

Daily Inter Lake |

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Response Location: United States, Kalispell, Montana

Law enforcement agencies in Montana are undergoing Crisis Intervention Training so they are better equipped to respond to mental health emergencies. After budget cuts resulting social worker layoff, the region anticipates an uptick in emergency mental health calls, so they are planning ahead to train police officers to respond.

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Domestic violence: Police failed to ask 11 questions that might have saved Anako Lumumba

Jess Aloe Elizabeth Murray

June 06, 2018 |

Burlington Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

Lethality assessments have proven effective at avoiding domestic violence homicides and such a tool might have saved a Vermont woman who was murdered. The 11 questions help victims understand the danger they are in and also help law enforcement connect them with services. But officers in many counties in Vermont are either not using the tool or not doing it systematically even though an advocacy organization has pushed for its implementation and even when police chiefs embrace its use.

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For Survivors Of Domestic Abuse In Papua New Guinea, Volunteers Offer Safe Havens

Durrie Bouscaren

June 06, 2018 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Papua New Guinea

Volunteer advocates in Papua New Guinea are trained by the United Nations to be human rights defenders and are crucial links for women facing abuse to help them navigate through legal proceedings to get protection. In a country where many officials are bribed and women have few resources to get help, the defenders are usually their only route to escape. It's dangerous work but when it works by coordinating many sectors it's effective.

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Could Vermont's new gun law have saved Anako Lumumba's life?

Jess Aloe Elizabeth Murray

June 06, 2018 |

Burlington Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

Extreme risk protection orders can be effective in removing guns from dangerous people, but even though Vermont has such a law on the books, making it work effectively is difficult because it places most of the burden to prove the danger on the victim. Even if a risk protection order exists, law enforcement cannot take someone's guns if that person refuses unless they get a search warrant. The law's pitfalls were evident after the shooting death of a Burlington woman by her estranged partner.

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From Tele-Psychiatry to Collaboration, Ohio Tries to Reach its Mental Health Deserts

Tim Rudell

June 06, 2018 |

WKSU |

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Response Location: United States, Ohio

There aren’t enough medical health care professionals to go around in Ohio—especially not in rural areas. Telepsychiatry is filling the void for residents of what the state is calling “mental health deserts,” though some say the services are too impersonal. The state is working towards increased collaborative care, where teams of medical professionals are led by one psychiatrist.

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