How Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to force more people into mental health treatment left many families still searching for help.
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Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move.
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Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sarah Stillman explains why so many people with mental illness are starving to death in U.S. jails, who is profiting, and what can be done to prevent it.
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How Treating Teens’ Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago
A Chicago violence prevention program is pairing cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring and wraparound support to help high-risk teens avoid incarceration.
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What Happens When Cops Refuse to Respond to Mental Health Calls?
Why are a handful of sheriff’s departments in California refusing to respond to some 911 calls that involve a person with mental illness?
Sozosei Foundation Virtual Book Club Discussion of “Entangled”
Small acts with enormous consequences. Low-level offenses that can set off years of complications—snarls that tangle, untangle, and tangle again. These are everyday experiences for many people living with chronic […]
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Health Care for Transgender Youth Goes to the Supreme Court
We take a closer look at gender-affirming care and the legal arguments that will influence how accessible that care will be.
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Presenting: Lost Patients: Churn
In this episode of Lost Patients from KUOW and the Seattle Times, a mother who watches her son spiral from one psychiatric crisis to the next.
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Sending Unarmed Responders Instead of Police: What We’ve Learned
There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.
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The Fifth Branch: Keeping People Safe
How do you keep crisis responders and the people they’re helping safe?
We look at HEART’s impact on the safety of Durham residents in crisis, the mental health workers responding, and the police.