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Utah bucked alcohol industry with its tougher DUI law. A new study shows it made roads safer.

Michael Laris

February 19, 2022 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Utah

In an attempt to reduce fatal car crashes, Utah lowered the legal blood alcohol content limit to .05% and saw a dramatic decrease in fatal crashes. The state’s fatal crash rate dropped 19.8% from 2016 to 2019 and in 2019 deaths on the road fell to 248, compared to 281 in 2016.

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Fentanyl overdoses dropped in 4 states. These solutions are helping

Arezow Doost

February 18, 2022 |

KXAN-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

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Response Location: United States, New Jersey

During the pandemic,New Jersey launched an initiative making the lifesaving overdose drug naloxone available at pharmacies without a prescription. Alongside strategies such as prioritizing access to harm reduction centers and making overdose data publicly available, the approach helped the state record a 7 percent decrease in overdose deaths as the majority of the country saw concerning spikes.

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How Vancouver's First United centres Indigenous healing

Nancy Painter

February 11, 2022 |

Broadview Magazine |

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Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

First United Church Community Ministry Society serves a majority Indigenous clientele with a transitional shelter and space for people to get their mail and use the phone, take a shower, receive a hot meal, and consult with advocacy workers. Centering Indigenous leadership is key to the organization’s mission to provide a safe place for Indigenous people to heal and rebuild their identities.

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More youths are becoming home caregivers. Experts say they need more help and support

April Franklin

February 07, 2022 |

WXXI |

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Response Location: United States, Palm Beach County, Florida

Programs like the American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY) advocate for and provide support to youth caregivers who are responsible for caring for sick, elderly, or adults with disabilities at home. AACY’s Youth Caregiver Project provides support in school and at home by offering customized services based on each student’s needs, including tutoring, counseling and even connections to food resources or school supplies. AACY serves about 600 students in 30 schools each year. Since the Youth Caregiver Project began in the late 1990s, about 2,000 youth have completed the program.

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Peer support: how ordinary Ohioans are helping others break mental health barriers

Christopher Johnston

February 04, 2022 |

Eye On Ohio |

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Response Location: United States, Ohio

In Ohio, Thrive Peer Recovery Services connects people experiencing addiction with a peer supporter to help them find and access resources and reduce isolation. Peer supporters are people recovering from addiction who have been sober for at least two years and are trained to support others.

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The Answer to our Youth Mental Health Crisis?

Jessica Blatt Press

February 03, 2022 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To provide mental health care to students, a pilot program at Girard College meets students where they are at with practices based on integrated behavioral health, adding mental health care into conventional health care settings.

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Can Farmers Help Each Other Navigate Mental Health Crises?

Lela Nargi

February 01, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

Programs like Farm Well Wisconsin, offer behavioral and wellness services to help farmers experiencing mental health challenges. These programs provide mental health resources as well as training to identify signs of stress and employ active listening tactics. Since 2021, Farm Well Wisconsin has trained about 150 farmers and community members in these mental health skills.

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Black students fought to defund school police in LA and hire mental health counselors instead

Aaricka Washington

February 01, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

After a period of backpack searches and police pepper-spraying students, Students Deserve, a youth-led activist group, pushed for the Los Angeles Unified School District to withdraw all funding for school police and divert it to mental health support for Black students. The school board approved a plan to cut one third of the school police budget, roughly around $25 million, and instead use it to fund “221 psychiatric social workers, counselors, “climate coaches,” and restorative justice advisers to schools with the highest number of Black students.”

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To Stem Shootings, Poughkeepsie Is Bringing Therapy Directly to City Streets

Ann Givens

January 31, 2022 |

The Trace |

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Response Location: United States, Poughkeepsie, New York

SNUG Street Outreach is a state-funded violence prevention program that brings mental health care out into the community to the places where people spend their time. Trained social workers go out into the street, people’s homes and local businesses where they establish relationships and slowly build up to providing counseling through more casual conversations, even over text messages. A community-based approach allows them to connect with people who are at high-risk of committing gun violence, as well as people who have been victims of gun violence themselves or in their social networks or communities.

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Pima County programs help keep drug users out of jail, save taxpayers money

Caitlin Schmidt

January 29, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

Tucson’s Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison program, or DTAP, offers intensive treatment and recovery services to certain people convicted of nonviolent offenses as an alternative to serving a sentence behind bars. Participants also receive support and counseling around job and life skills, transportation, and other critical needs, and at least 119 people have successfully completed the program since 2011.

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