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  • Police and the mentally ill: LAPD praised as a model for nation

    March 09, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    LAPD's special team, the Mental Evaluation Unit, is teaming up police officers with mental health clinicians to better approach and address individuals suffering from a mental health crisis. Rather than sending them to jail - where resources are limited and a vicious cycle often results - the teams help ensure patients get the medical care they need, preventing brushes with the law and county millions of dollars and freed up thousands of hours of patrol time. Their model is being replicated nation-wide.

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  • Battling America's other PTSD crisis

    March 06, 2015 |

    Yahoo! News |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program in Philadelphia is pioneering new ways to treat the urban wounded. By seeing it as PTSD, and not pointing fingers, the city is using mental health tools to decrease violence and heal communities.

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  • Inside the Revival of One of the Nation's Most Notorious Housing Projects

    March 06, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHIELDS for Families works in one of the country's most notoriously dilapidated housing projects to revitalize the neighborhood by providing education, treatment and counseling services.

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  • As Vermont tackles heroin addiction, progress is measured in baby steps

    February 26, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Berlin, Vermont

    About 40 percent more people in the state are seeking treatment for addiction today than a year ago - but the number of deaths from heroin is going up. Local government is scrambling for both funding and awareness to combat the issue.

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  • How Former Prisoners are Set up to Fail, Especially if They're Women

    February 25, 2015 |

    Cosmopolitan |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A Department of Justice study reported that about 75 percent of those released in 2005 were rearrested, and women prisoners often have a harder time re-entering society after release. A New Way of Life (ANWOL) is a Los Angeles transitional living facility that has helped more than 750 women stay out of prison by offering housing, case management, mental health and substance treatment, and job training.

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  • Special courts take on criminal cases of veterans struggling with truama

    February 24, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Veterans are at a higher risk for getting in trouble with the law, especially those with PTSD. San Francisco city defendants and the VA created a special veterans court which prosecutes veterans through treatments and helping them work back to a normal life.

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  • Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk

    February 20, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Preschoolers in the U.S. who misbehave are increasingly being expelled. In Connecticut, trained counselors educated teachers about how to deal with emotionally traumatized kids which reduced expulsions.

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  • Respite From the Storm

    February 15, 2015 |

    WNYC |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Mental health care sometimes takes a backseat to physical treatment. Temporary respite centers, as alternatives to hospitals, could be a big part of the future of mental health care in New York City.

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  • In Foster Care, Treating the Trigger

    February 04, 2015 |

    WNYC |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Underlying or repressed pain can often be a trigger for children in the foster system. A team at NYU's Child Study Center trains foster care workers to recognize and treat the signs of past trauma in children.

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  • Dying To Be Free: There's A Treatment For Heroin Addiction That Actually Works. Why Aren't We Using It?

    January 28, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    With rising opioid overdose deaths nationwide, antiquated treatment methods like abstinence-based and 12-step programs are not working. A solution can be found in medication-assisted treatment, from methadone to buprenorphine-naloxone, but there are still many barriers to access.

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