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  • How Kalamazoo can address the shortage of psychiatrists -- and make a name for itself in the process

    August 21, 2022 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    The Kalamazoo Collaborative Care Program provides social workers and other mental-health expertise to help primary-care physicians treat patients with behavioral health issues. The program is currently working to expand by creating a psychiatric clinic to help further address the shortage of psychiatrists and mental health professionals.

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  • Should Kalamazoo County's first-responders include mental-health clinicians?

    June 15, 2022 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Crisis Intervention Training classes provide law enforcement with the necessary knowledge to effectively help those experiencing a mental health crisis. Currently, planning is underway to enhance this training to help strengthen the relationship between law enforcement and the mental health system by better collecting data, screening calls and opening a downtown urgent care center.

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  • Tucson crisis center expanding services for faster mental health care

    March 03, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Crisis Response Center provides mental health and crisis care services as an alternative to emergency rooms or jails. The center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers a variety of services focused on recovery for children, teens and adults struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse. The Center is set to expand ahead of the new 988 dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Once expansions are done, the Center will have the capacity to serve between 400 and 600 extra visits a month, on top of the 800 to 1,000 adults who visit the center each month.

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  • From LA jail, two inmates pioneer care for mentally ill peers

    May 18, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    At the Los Angeles County Jail, two men incarcerated on pending murder charges created a homegrown approach to improving the care and conditions of confinement for people with serious mental illness. Their approach is simple: showing love and care for people whose illness makes them feel like outcasts. By helping fellow incarcerated men attend counseling and other programs, and by tending to their personal needs, the initiative has contributed to a significant drop in people harming themselves. Fewer restraints are needed, and the pods where the program operates are notably cleaner and calmer than before.

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  • Clubhouse Atlanta: Combatting Unemployment Through Community-Based Approach

    April 08, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Clubhouse Atlanta provides "transitional employment" services to people whose mental health poses obstacles to finding and keeping a job. Clubhouse staff serve as intermediaries with employers, not only asking employers to hire Clubhouse members but also learning the job requirements in order to train the members themselves. Staff also fill in for members if they are out sick. By relieving employers of the risks of an unreliable or hard-to-train employee, the Clubhouse has helped members find jobs that can lead to a more stable, productive life.

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  • Spaulding still changing lives after 150 years

    March 15, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Northfield, New Hampshire

    The Spaulding Academy and Family Services is a residential school for children and young adults with autism and other neurological issues. It also serves young people with histories of severe trauma or who are in crisis without a stable home. The care they receive is based on love and listening, to make neglected or deeply troubled children feel valued. Some students have restored healthier relationships with their families, while others have found new homes in foster families or adoptions.

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  • Georgia's Mental Health Champions

    February 02, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Georgia

    Across Georgia, a community-based mental health care approach has decreased both the duration and frequency of hospitalization for clients. This approach relies on mental health and other healthcare specialists delivering care to clients via mobile teams.

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  • ‘Peer Respites' Provide an Alternative to Psychiatric Wards During Pandemic

    January 11, 2021 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    As the coronavirus pandemic forces people into isolation and social distancing, places known as "peer respites" are providing a space for those "experiencing or nearing a mental health crisis" to seek help. While the peer respites don't offer clinical care by licensed mental healthcare professionals, they are free for those who stay and "offer people in distress short-term (usually up to two weeks), round-the-clock emotional support from peers."

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  • How Genesee County wants to change criminal justice: A New Juvenile Justice Center

    January 10, 2021 |

    Flint Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    A new Juvenile Justice Center that will focus on trauma-informed treatment of children rather than simply jailing them is still more than one year from completion. But, in the years leading to its opening, the county's family courts have cut in half the numbers of children held in detention by emphasizing rehabilitation programs over jail. Many of the services are based on the "Missouri Model" of juvenile justice, which has been shown to reduce incarceration and prevent crime through evidence-based approaches that are more therapeutic than punitive.

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  • A New Tool in Treating Mental Illness: Building Design

    January 05, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Mountain View, California

    Across the U.S. an influx of new mental health facilities are being designed through a lens of "evidence-based" architecture that aims to use the design itself as a means of treatment. With studies indicating that access to nature and green space can reduce stress, these new facilities aren't "just about being warm and fuzzy."

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