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  • The Resurrection of St. Benedict's

    Once a white Catholic all-male private school, St. Benedict's Prep now educates predominantly low-income black and Hispanic students. At St. Benedict's, students hold leadership positions, receive trauma-informed counseling, and live by the motto "Whatever hurts my brother hurts me." Headmaster Edwin Leahy says the school "has the same structure as a gang except you can only be in one gang. You can only be in ours." St. Benedict's, which struggled to gain its footing in the 1960s following white flight, boasts a higher retention and graduation rate than many other Newark schools.

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  • Pivotal actions in Minnesota and St. Paul

    St. Paul, Minnesota, was the first in the nation to establish a shelter for battered women. Women’s Advocates was founded in 1974. In 1980, Minnesota also became the first state to implement a sentencing guidelines structure.

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  • How to Go Straight

    How to break a cycle of recidivism? Individual ex-prisoners share their own stories of how they have recovered from addiction and lives of crime, gotten their lives on track, and ultimately broken the cycle and stayed out of prison.

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  • The Evolving Fight Against Concentrated Poverty

    The disappearance of good manufacturing jobs, increased concentration of wealth, and political gridlock makes it increasingly hard for cities to address poverty. A Georgetown law professor reports back on four inventive programs addressing poverty in four cities: Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Haven.

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  • Communities step up for kids' mental health

    After shortages of mental health options for kids and untold grief, counties in Wisconsin have responded with new kinds of support for at-risk youth. Wisconsin communities have increased access with reduced wait time, and have used horse therapy, support groups, charity golf that raises awareness, school-group therapy, as well as mobile live chat sessions, among others.

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  • Chipping away at mental health crisis

    The state of Wisconsin has a teen suicide rate three-times greater than the national average. Lawmakers have scrambled to address and provide greater access to mental health services in the state by offering temporary housing shelters, treatment programs, and new police training. The initiative is expanding to three cities and health officials see progress because of a decrease in hospitalizations.

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  • Attorneys don't know best

    The criminal justice system used to view delinquents with a “tough on crime approach;” however, that approach was not human-centered and used community resources that offered little in terms of results. Wisconsin’s Dane County has a Children Come First Program that provides collaborative care with family, school, mental health professionals, and others to keep youth out of jail. The Winnebago County District Attorney believes that this new approach uses less community resources and has decreased the number of youth referred to the juvenile courts.

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  • Treating the body and mind

    Over 50 percent of Wisconsin counties lack mental health professionals to serve the populations, and the shortage directly affects children’s mental health. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has submitted funds to a clinic in Ashwaubenon to integrate mental health counselors into primary care work. The effort is nationwide and has shown to be effective in identifying early signs of anxiety and depression beyond patients’ awareness so that counseling is accessible and treatment can be administered.

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  • Justice advocates cite state as treatment model

    At-risk children who do not have access to quality mental health care can end up in the juvenile justice system. Wisconsin has initiated a Children Come First program that offers personalized mental health care designed to keep kids from being incarcerated or placed in a hospital setting. The results so far have been successful, with a decrease in the number of youth behind bars and very few need to re-enroll in the program.

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  • Telepsychiatry spreading mental health help

    Fifty-one counties in the state of Wisconsin do not have child psychiatrists to provide counseling because most of them live in widely populated urban areas. Wisconsin psychiatrists now are offering telepsychiatry, which enables young people to do video conferencing and live chatting with a psychiatrist even if they are in rural areas. The program has shown that it is just as effective as in-person treatment; however, Wisconsin does not allow private insurers to pay for telemedicine services so the reimbursement for telepsychiatrists is still problematic.

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