News and Announcements
- Opinion: Decriminalize drug paraphernalia, make social work affordable (Detroit Free Press)
- Advancing mental health advocacy: Jenny Kimmel joins the CBHJ’s AOT initiative
- Wayne County stakeholders collaborate on youth justice intervention strategies
- Study finds prisons, jails work to support pregnant inmates (Capital News Service)
- Ingham County Jail sets benchmark for substance use disorder treatment with MAT program
- Life-saving access: Naloxone vending machines drive 63.5% increase in overdose prevention in Michigan jails
- He attempted suicide. Peoria Jail restrained him in a chair for five days. (IllinoisAnswers.com)
- Anonymous distribution of naloxone via vending machines raises uptake by ex-prisoners, researchers find (Medical Xpress)
- Endowed research assistant opportunity for School of Social Work students enhances behavioral health in Michigan communities
- Wayne County’s Behavioral Health Collaborative serves as a model for work across the country
- Kalamazoo's public health vending machine distributes hundreds of safety kits (WWMT)
- Wayne County seeks feedback for community overdose and substance use assessment
- Wayne County program aimed at reducing overdose deaths (C&G Newspapers)
- Former juvenile lifers to share their stories, talk about their return home at event at Wayne State University on Oct. 1
- Flinn Foundation CEO Andrea Cole to receive 2024 Eleanor Josaitis Unsung Hero Award (Detroit Free Press)
- A public health vending machine at the Delta Township District Library aims to help neighbors (Fox 47)
- Free Narcan vending machine comes to Berrien County (ABC57)
- CBHJ to host original play, "With Love, From Inside" in partnership with U-M Arts Initiative
- Washtenaw United: Care-Based Safety serves as safer alternative to solving mental health crises (WEMU 89.1)
- Column: The intersection of mental health and law enforcement (The Oakland Press)
- Oakland County Jail achieves gold standard of medical care for inmates with opioid addiction
- CBHJ report assesses changes in jail policy and youth justice reform
- Opinion: There are better ways to respond to mental health crises (Crain's Detroit Business)
- In Memoriam: Honoring the legacy of Bob Butkiewicz
- Data drives Wayne County’s groundbreaking Narcan vending machine program to prevent fatal overdoses