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  • Wrestling With A Texas County's Mental Health System

    Jenny Gold

    August 20, 2014 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    In the United States 20 percent of prisoners have a mental illness. San Antonio law enforcement and mental health workers pooled their resources and worked together to create a one-stop center for the mentally ill to keep them out of prison.

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  • Salt Lake City a model for S.F. on homeless solutions

    Kevin Fagan

    June 28, 2014 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    San Francisco’s chronically homeless population remains staggeringly high. Salt Lake City has managed to eradicate much of their chronically homeless by geographically placing supportive housing distant from the city’s center and receiving financial assistance from the Mormon Church. The housing is attractive, modern, and offers a good ratio between counselors and homeless clients—all of which helps make the homeless want to stay off the streets.

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  • How can Milwaukee County's broken mental health system be fixed?

    Meg Kissinger

    November 05, 2013 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Milwaukee County’s mental health system put more resources in expensive emergency care rather than invest in programs that offer continual care. As a result, Milwaukee County identifies nine solutions from other cities that have had success in repairing mental health systems. Solutions include the ending of reliance on emergency care, expand community support programs, change laws, and supportive housing.

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  • Protecting Children From Toxic Stress

    David Bornstein

    October 30, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    Child First is a program in Connecticut, where staff members deliver home-based parent guidance and child-parent psychotherapy to help prevent the detrimental physical and mental effects of toxic stress on children. The engagement is guided by an evidence-based methodology called Child-Parent Psychotherapy, which is grounded in collaborative problem solving.

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  • Special Report: Abandoning our mentally ill

    Meg Kissinger

    March 19, 2006 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    With the promise of community care, psychiatric wards were unlocked 30 years ago. Today, the sickest patients live in squalor.

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